Monthly Archives: June 2021

YASnippet in Eshell

Posted on 2021-06-20 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez has a great, quick tip for Eshell users. Actually, it’s a good tip for any shell you’re using in Emacs. Ramírez starts by revisiting level 4 from Vivek Haldar’s classic post on the levels of Emacs proficiency. I … Continue reading →

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Universities Continue Their Slow Motion Suicide

Posted on 2021-06-19 by jcs

Universities seem intent on forsaking their traditional values with the expected results. Enrollments are down significantly and an increasing number of parents are performing cost/benefit analyses that don’t bode well for an improvement of those enrollment figures. One would think, … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Emacs or VS Code

Posted on 2021-06-18 by jcs

For those of you wondering if you should adopt Emacs or VS Code, here’s your answer. You’re welcome.

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Adtech and FLoC

Posted on 2021-06-17 by jcs

It won’t come as a surprise to anyone with the slightest bit of skepticism or, indeed, two brain cells to rub together that Google’s replacement for cookies, FLoC, is a privacy nightmare. Google, of course, is touting the system as … Continue reading →

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Configuring Emacs as a Go IDE

Posted on 2021-06-16 by jcs

Bhavin Gandhi has a post that may be useful to those who want to use Emacs for Go programming. It’s easy to get things like syntax highlighting but for the full IDE experience you need the Go LSP server. Gandhi’s … Continue reading →

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Working From Home and Bosses

Posted on 2021-06-15 by jcs

Ed Zitron has a long Substack essay on why bosses hate remote work. The article, The Work-From-Home Future Is Destroying Bosses’ Brains, posits that it’s all about control but probably not for the reasons you’d expect. The proximate fear is … Continue reading →

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More on the Why of Emacs

Posted on 2021-06-14 by jcs

Jeremy Friesen has a bit more to say on why he uses Emacs. Last time we stopped by his blog, he explained how he molds Emacs to enhance his blogging workflow. This time he’s answering a question on the Emacs/reddit … Continue reading →

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The Iron Law and The National Health Service

Posted on 2021-06-13 by jcs

We haven’t talked about the Iron Law for a while so here’s an example of its action on steroids. This story is about Britain’s National Health Service and their contemplated betrayal of their patients’ privacy. I’m an American so I … Continue reading →

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Tramp Mode with Zsh

Posted on 2021-06-12 by jcs

Lennart Karssen has a tip for those of you who use tramp and zsh. He observed that if zsh was running on the remote machine and he tried to open a file with Ctrl+x Ctrl+f long timeouts would occur making … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Another One Sees The Light

Posted on 2021-06-11 by jcs

Oh no! Those pesky Minions are at it again and have snuck another Light-mode/Dark-mode post into the queue. This time, MICROIDEATION recounts his journey from avid dark mode fan to the realization that, as Irreal keeps telling you, light mode … Continue reading →

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