Monthly Archives: April 2021

Red Meat Friday: How Not To Design Signs

Posted on 2021-04-30 by jcs

As promised, no journalists were harmed in the posting of this Red Meat Friday. Instead, via Karl Voit, I present this example of really atrocious design. How To Irritate People: pic.twitter.com/Tbrz4myYhy — Bruno Kassel (@BrunoKassel) April 28, 2021 The perpetrators … Continue reading →

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And You Don’t Mess Around With Jim

Posted on 2021-04-29 by jcs

The late Jim Croce famously sang You don’t tug on Superman’s cape You don’t spit into the wind You don’t pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger And you don’t mess around with Jim Cloudflare has another item for … Continue reading →

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Bastien on Using TODO Lists Efficiently

Posted on 2021-04-28 by jcs

Bastien Guerry, longtime maintainer and advocate for Org-mode, has a few thoughts on using TODO list efficiently. His thoughts are distilled from 15 years of using Org to keep his TODO list and schedule his tasks. The chief challenge, he … Continue reading →

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The Post Office and Surveillance

Posted on 2021-04-27 by jcs

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has fallen on hard times. The Internet, email, FedEx, and UPS have been eating their lunch for years. It’s not hard to see why. A first class letter costs 55¢ with delivery time measured in … Continue reading →

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Two Quickies

Posted on 2021-04-26 by jcs

Ten Years At This Location Irreal will be 12 years old in July but 10 years ago today I published my first post at irreal.org. Before that, Irreal was hosted at Blogger and I posted sporadically at best. Once the … Continue reading →

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Multiple Help Buffers

Posted on 2021-04-25 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) posted a potentially helpful tip on multiple help buffers. I say “potentially helpful” because his use case is pretty niche and it’s hard to think of others that are essentially different. Regardless, If you need multiple help … Continue reading →

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The Open Office Is Dead

Posted on 2021-04-24 by jcs

Open offices are dead. At least that’s what the sociopaths who foisted them off on protesting office workers—but never their bosses for some reason—say. An article in Fast Company says that the architects who have been pushing the open office … Continue reading →

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Native Compilation Will Probably Be Merged This Weekend

Posted on 2021-04-23 by jcs

Eli Zaretskii writes that absent the discovery of any last minute blockers, native compilation will be merged into master this weekend. A problem with symlinks prevented the merging last weekend. At this point there are no more issues known so … Continue reading →

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Fifteen Days with Dired

Posted on 2021-04-22 by jcs

Ramit Mittal is a new Spacemacs user who decided that for 15 days he would use Dired for all his file operations. That’s not hard to do. I don’t always use Dired but it’s usually easier than bringing up or … Continue reading →

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Law Enforcement Pirates

Posted on 2021-04-21 by jcs

If you’re an American, the government can’t take your stuff without a legal finding of wrongdoing on your part. That’s what most Americans believe but they’re wrong. The government can, and does, confiscate citizens’ property without legal proceedings or even … Continue reading →

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