Monthly Archives: June 2020

More Google Suits

Posted on 2020-06-10 by jcs

A week ago I wrote about Arizona suing Google over data collection. Arizona’s complaint is that Google collects location information even if you turn it off. Since that data collection was for maps and weather, I was willing to give … Continue reading →

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Editor Keystrokes

Posted on 2020-06-09 by jcs

It’s surprising to me that many people still don’t know where some of the keystrokes we use everyday in our editors came from. The most famous example, I suppose, is why Vi(m) uses the j k h l keys for … Continue reading →

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Zettelkastens in 10 Minutes

Posted on 2020-06-08 by jcs

Tomas Vik has a very nice post introducing the Zettelkasten concept. He says that rather than spending hours researching the Zettelkasten idea, you can just read his post and get a good introduction. I especially liked his section on the … Continue reading →

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What Could Go Wrong?

Posted on 2020-06-07 by jcs

Over at Six Colors, Jason Snell tells us that congress wants to tinker with the COVID-19 tracking framework set up by Apple and Google. Why not? What could go wrong? The same people who brought you the Government Healthcare Website, … Continue reading →

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A Handwriting Font

Posted on 2020-06-06 by jcs

Sacha Chua has perpetrated a truly wonderful hack. She’s built a font based on her handwriting. She’s using it for blog post titles and a few other places on her website, so take a look there to see what it … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Atom and VSCode

Posted on 2020-06-05 by jcs

I recently saw a tweet that has some things to say about Atom and VSCode that are sure to make certain heads explode. It’s red meat, it’s Friday so here’s today’s Red Meat Friday offering: Years ago, I wish I … Continue reading →

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Summarizing Class Notes

Posted on 2020-06-04 by jcs

Matheus Augusto da Silva has an interesting video that details how he uses Emacs and Org-mode to write summaries of his class notes. After a class, he likes to write a half page summary of his notes. He finds that … Continue reading →

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More on the Websockets Port Scanning

Posted on 2020-06-03 by jcs

This is a short update to my Websockets: Why We Can’t Have Nice Things post. That post discussed a tactic used by several Web sites that uses Websockets to scan for open localhost ports. There was some speculation that this … Continue reading →

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Arizona Sues Google

Posted on 2020-06-02 by jcs

As I said previously, if you care about privacy, you shouldn’t be using an Android phone. My point was that even if you believe Android phones are technically superior or equivalent to the iPhone, no reasonable person can doubt that … Continue reading →

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More On The Magit Initial Status Page

Posted on 2020-06-01 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about setting the initial visibility of Magit sections. It was a bit of a nuisance but without it I had large expanded sections that invited an inadvertent stage command that could freeze Emacs … Continue reading →

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