Monthly Archives: January 2021

Adding a Third Monitor to EXWM

Posted on 2021-01-11 by jcs

Twelve or thirteen years ago, I got my first Mac. Fast forward to today and you’ll find that the Irreal bunker is firmly in the Apple ecosystem. One of the things I don’t miss—at all—is struggling with getting X configured. … Continue reading →

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Prot on Embark

Posted on 2021-01-10 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has a new video up in which he discusses Embark and some of his extensions to it. For those unfamiliar with Embark, it’s a package that lets you bind actions to keys in a context sensitive way. … Continue reading →

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Group Tags in Org-mode

Posted on 2021-01-09 by jcs

I know about Org’s group tags but like any things in Emacs, I wasn’t using them so they slipped out of my mind. Until today. Today, I saw this Tweet: #orgtip: This one blew my mind, org mode allows you … Continue reading →

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Read Meat Friday: A Trojan In Your Editor

Posted on 2021-01-08 by jcs

Is there a backdoor in your editor? Probably not, even if you’re using IntelliJ, but in a moment of schadenfreude for FOSS folks, the New York Times is reporting that JetBrains software may have been used as vector in the … Continue reading →

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The Guile Hacker’s Handbook

Posted on 2021-01-07 by jcs

Jeremy Korwin has an interesting project underway. He’s writing a Guile hacker’s handbook. Guile, of course, is the official GNU extension language. Korwin’s idea is to document what a beginning Guile hacker needs to know to install, and learn the … Continue reading →

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Building A Password Generator in 3 Minutes

Posted on 2021-01-06 by jcs

Today—the whole week really—has been consumed by yak shaving so this is a short offering. Salah Qadri has a nice 3 minute video (3 minutes, 48 secs actually) in which he builds a reasonably good password generator. The generator builds … Continue reading →

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Why You Should Learn Emacs This Year

Posted on 2021-01-05 by jcs

David Wilson over at the System Crafters YouTube channel is starting off the year with a video that gives you 5 Reasons to Learn Emacs in 2021. He begins by noting that Emacs is not a text editor or at … Continue reading →

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Adtech Fraud at Uber

Posted on 2021-01-04 by jcs

As most of you know to your sorrow, I really, really hate adtech and frequently rail against it. The harm they do to ordinary users like you and me is manifest. They invade our privacy, follow us around the Internet, … Continue reading →

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REPLs

Posted on 2021-01-03 by jcs

Mikel Evins has a lovely post that considers interactive programming and REPLs. As many of you know, I love interactive programming and am a huge fan of it. I like how you can try out bits of code and feel … Continue reading →

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Tangling Dotfiles From an Org File

Posted on 2021-01-02 by jcs

Despite the XDG base directory specification, configuration files are still stored all over our file systems. If you have a single machine, maintaining those files is not too much trouble—they’re almost all “set it and forget it”—but when you have … Continue reading →

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