Monthly Archives: December 2020

Emacs for the Humanities

Posted on 2020-12-21 by jcs

Most of you know that I have a longstanding interest in the use of Emacs outside the programming/engineering fields. I’m strictly within those fields, of course, but it’s always seemed to me that Emacs has a lot to offer someone … Continue reading →

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Emacs 27.1.90 Is Out

Posted on 2020-12-20 by jcs

Emacs 27.2 is drawing nearer with the release of the first pretest, Emacs 27.1.90. Eli Zaretskii made the announcement on the emacs-devel list. If living a bit on the edge doesn’t bother you, Eli and the rest of the developers … Continue reading →

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Org Spreadsheet Tutorial

Posted on 2020-12-19 by jcs

Over at DjPj, pjs64 has a nice tutorial on using some of the spreadsheet properties of an Org tables. It’s one of the most powerful aspects of Org tables and I use it all the time. The trouble is, it … Continue reading →

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The New Luddites Come for Our Spellcheckers

Posted on 2020-12-18 by jcs

Well, not for our spellcheckers but, even worse, our children’s spellcheckers. It was inevitable, of course. The new Luddites will take aim at anything that makes our lives easier and wasn’t used down on the farm 150 years ago. Meghan … Continue reading →

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Letting Google Control Your Home

Posted on 2020-12-17 by jcs

My immediate reaction when I saw this: Why would you give @Google control over anything in your home? https://t.co/4OwqMRTgM9 — Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly) December 16, 2020 was absolute agreement. Why would anyone entrust Google with their home lighting? It’s the … Continue reading →

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New SSL Certificate

Posted on 2020-12-16 by jcs

Some of you may have been inconvenienced this morning by Irreal’s expired SSL certificate. As usual, my provider didn’t give me a heads up about the pending expiration so the first I knew about it was when I tried to … Continue reading →

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Bit By Bit?

Posted on 2020-12-15 by jcs

Speaking of screaming from all sides, here’s a warning for those of you who are open source advocates and VS Code users. Microsoft has released a new LSP server for Python. The server is for VS Code and Microsoft says … Continue reading →

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More Batteries

Posted on 2020-12-14 by jcs

Karthik Chikmagalur is back with another post in his Batteries Included with Emacs series. This post, More Batteries Included with Emacs, is the second and last of his posts on little known features of vanilla Emacs. His first post in … Continue reading →

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Unlimited Storage for Life

Posted on 2020-12-13 by jcs

Irreal often posts about the absolute necessity to keep your data under your control. If you commit it to some “Internet service,” sooner or later it will become unavailable. The Stay Sassy blog has a very interesting post on why … Continue reading →

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Sorting with Regular Expressions

Posted on 2020-12-12 by jcs

Tory Anderson has a nice use case for the sort-regexp-fields command. When I first saw his post I thought sort-regexp-fields was another new find for me. But on checking, I discovered that I had used in back in 2011 in … Continue reading →

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