Monthly Archives: February 2022

Delivery Robot Traffic Jam

Posted on 2022-02-18 by jcs

One of the reasons I love being in New York City is that you can get virtually any type of food delivered at any time. Tampa is hardly a backwater but pre-covid we didn’t have a robust food delivery infrastructure … Continue reading →

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Ibuffer

Posted on 2022-02-17 by jcs

This tweet from Mickey `M-x ibuffer’ is a strictly superior buffer list compared to the default one in #emacs bound to `C-x C-b’. It comes with dozens of commands and utility features. Like filtering and grouping, highlighting, and much, much … Continue reading →

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More on Google’s Poor Search Results

Posted on 2022-02-16 by jcs

Back in January, I wrote about a Twitter thread concerning poor Google search results. The complaint was almost all the results were ads. DKB has a new post that covers the same ground. He says that Google is dying and … Continue reading →

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Own A Color

Posted on 2022-02-15 by jcs

Most Irreal readers are, I’m sure, like me in their skepticism of the NFT concept. It just wreaks of a scam to me and the most generous way of describing it is as a reincarnation of the Netherlands famous Tulip … Continue reading →

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Symbols in Lisp

Posted on 2022-02-14 by jcs

Joe Marshall over at Abstract Heresies has a post that makes a point that’s easy to forget: Lisp has symbols and those symbols should be used in preference to strings or integers to represent arbitrary state constants. Most other languages … Continue reading →

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Words and Ideas

Posted on 2022-02-13 by jcs

Paul Graham has a new essay up that discusses words and ideas. It’s an interesting piece that reminds me of one of my favorite quotes. The quote from Daniel Boorstin—a University of Chicago historian and the 12th Librarian of Congress—is … Continue reading →

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Some Comment Tips from Mickey

Posted on 2022-02-12 by jcs

If you write code, you’re probably always adding and deleting comments. It’s one of those things that’s so fundamental you’d think everyone already knows the best way of dealing with them but I often see questions about how best to … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Résumé Gaps

Posted on 2022-02-11 by jcs

We’ve all been there. If not with TikZ then some other application: interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV me: yeah I was trying to make a complicated figure in TikZ and lost track of time and— interviewer: … Continue reading →

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Emacs Extensibility

Posted on 2022-02-10 by jcs

We all know that one of the chief—if not the chief—benefit of Emacs is its extensibility. We say it all the time. Irreal says it all the time. But every once in a while the truth of that statement comes … Continue reading →

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Support Melpa

Posted on 2022-02-09 by jcs

I’ve said this several times but, really, MELPA is one of Emacs’ great resources. Think for a moment how important it is to your Emacs life and what you would do if it disappeared. How would you replace it? There’s … Continue reading →

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