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Monthly Archives: February 2022
Delivery Robot Traffic Jam
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
Ibuffer
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
More on Google’s Poor Search Results
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
Own A Color
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
Symbols in Lisp
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
Words and Ideas
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
Some Comment Tips from Mickey
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
Red Meat Friday: Résumé Gaps
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
Emacs Extensibility
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
Support Melpa
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