Monthly Archives: June 2021

Molding Emacs

Posted on 2021-06-10 by jcs

Jeremy Friesen has an interesting post on how he uses Emacs to blog. That’s easy, right? Just use Org-mode and some Org → Blog interface such as Hugo or org2blog and you’ve automated away almost everything except the actual writing … Continue reading →

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COVID-19: How We Got Here

Posted on 2021-06-09 by jcs

In a nice coda to yesterday’s post on origin of COVID-19, Erik Hoel has an excellent Substack essay on the lab leak hypothesis that isn’t a just rehash of the known evidence but instead considers the larger question of how … Continue reading →

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Another Look At COVID-19’s Origin

Posted on 2021-06-08 by jcs

Over at Vanity Fair, Katherine Eban has a very well researched article on the lab leak hypothesis for the origin of COVID-19. She interviewed more than 40 people and reviewed hundreds of pages of government internal memos, meeting minutes, emails, … Continue reading →

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Updating Emacs Packages from the Command Line

Posted on 2021-06-07 by jcs

Tassilo Horn has a (very) short post on how he updates all his Emacs packages from the command line. It involves installing auto-package-update but after that it’s simply a matter of calling Emacs and running auto-package-update-now. It would be easy, … Continue reading →

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An Org Setup

Posted on 2021-06-06 by jcs

Over at Mt. Solitary, Clinton Boys has a post on his Org-mode setup. In it he describes how he uses Org-mode to manage all his writing and the rest of his life. His basic layout is to divide his content … Continue reading →

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The EU’s Digital Wallet

Posted on 2021-06-05 by jcs

Everyday I still forlornly check to see if Florida has gotten around to issuing their promised digital driver’s licenses but there’s still no joy. Instead, I just read that the EU is implementing a digital wallet that will hold all … Continue reading →

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Some Workers Are Quitting Rather Than Go Back to the Office

Posted on 2021-06-04 by jcs

There’s been a great deal of speculation during the pandemic about how the work environment will change as a result of the large scale working from home that COVID-19 required. Some pundits said that work would be changed forever; others … Continue reading →

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Emacs in 2021

Posted on 2021-06-03 by jcs

Tory Anderson has an interesting take on modern day Emacs. He starts by reviewing the problems that Emacs was created to solve. He starts with Bernard S. Greenberg’s 1979 paper on Multics Emacs, which I wrote about two and half … Continue reading →

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Google Is Not Your Friend

Posted on 2021-06-02 by jcs

Remember years ago when we used to say, “Google is your friend?” Younger readers may never have heard it or know what it means but in any event, those days are long gone—gone to the same place that “Don’t be … Continue reading →

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Getting a List of Open PRs from Github (Part 2)

Posted on 2021-06-01 by jcs

Three weeks ago, I wrote about Geoffrey Lessel’s video on writing an Emacs package to obtain a list of Pull Requests from a GitHub repository, present a chooser list, and then display the chosen PR in the default browser. That … Continue reading →

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