Monthly Archives: November 2020

Keyboards for Emacs

Posted on 2020-11-30 by jcs

One of the most important pieces of kit in our arsenal is the keyboard. It’s easy to treat them as an afterthought but if you do a lot of typing as most of us do, the choice can mean the … Continue reading →

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Cloning a Repository

Posted on 2020-11-29 by jcs

My day has been consumed by yak shaving so today’s offering is just a quickie pointing you to a very interesting post from Álvaro Ramírez. In a situation familiar to all of us, Ramírez noticed that every time he wanted … Continue reading →

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Managing Servers with Org

Posted on 2020-11-28 by jcs

Fragbot has an interesting reddit post talking about using Emacs as a standalone infrastructure that can be shared by others. The idea is that you integrate Emacs into a workflow for use by folks who aren’t normally Emacs users. He … Continue reading →

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Mastering Emacs Update

Posted on 2020-11-27 by jcs

Mickey Petersen’s excellent Mastering Emacs has a new update covering Emacs 26 & 27. If you already have a copy of Mastering Emacs, you’ve probably received an email telling you how to get the update (for free). If you don’t … Continue reading →

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Cover Your Tracks

Posted on 2020-11-26 by jcs

The EFF has a new version of their Panopticlick browser fingerprinting and tracker awareness tool. It’s now called Cover Your Tracks. The tool doesn’t prevent the malevolent adtech industry from tracking you, it’s merely a testing tool to estimate how … Continue reading →

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Emacs in the Terminal

Posted on 2020-11-25 by jcs

Wanderson Ferreira (Bartuka) has a project where the code can’t leave a remote machine at the other end of a slow connection. He’s an Emacser but GUI Emacs is too slow to be practical so he moved to terminal Emacs … Continue reading →

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Emacs Should Be Emacs Lisp

Posted on 2020-11-24 by jcs

Back in February at FOSDEM 20, Tom Tromey gave a very interesting talk of how he believes the core of Emacs should evolve. He considers most of the current proposals such as Rmacs, Guile Emacs, and rewriting the core in … Continue reading →

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The Worst Passwords of 2020

Posted on 2020-11-23 by jcs

We haven’t done this for a while but it’s time, once more, for a survey of the year’s worst passwords. Sadly, the only real question is, as usual, whether 123456 or password heads the list. This time password has inexplicably … Continue reading →

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A Free Blog with Org and GitLab

Posted on 2020-11-22 by jcs

Ravi Sagar has an interesting video that shows you how to publish a free blog to GitLab using Org-mode. The result is a static Web site, of course, and Sagar’s example is very simple but you can use CSS to … Continue reading →

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Coding Fonts

Posted on 2020-11-21 by jcs

I like looking at programmers’ fonts. Every time I see one announced or mentioned that I didn’t know about, I have to take a look. It’s rather odd, then, that I’ve been using the Inconsolata font since before I became … Continue reading →

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