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Monthly Archives: February 2022
Kernighan Podcast on Unix and C History
Here’s a pointer to another interesting talk by Brian Kernighan. This time, it’s a podcast on Unix and C history. The podcast is with CppCast a series specializing on Cpp matters (of course) but that isn’t afraid to venture into … Continue reading
Ecomplete
I’ve been using mu/mu4e for 5 years and love it. It really provides everything I want in a mail client except perhaps for handling HTML—which certain miscreants insist on sending to me—but even that’s an Emacs shortcoming that will undoubtedly … Continue reading
EXWM and Keyboard Macros
Being a Mac user, I don’t get to play but I’ve always loved the idea of EXWM, probably because it moves Emacs closer to recapitulating the Lisp Machine. Other than making all windows Emacs windows, I never thought too much … Continue reading
Annotations in Emacs
Bhaskar Chowdhury has an informative video on the annotation package for Emacs. The idea is that often you’d like to add notes to a file without corrupting the file itself. For example, you might want to add explanatory notes to … Continue reading
Red Meat Friday: Infix in Lisp
For all you Lisp n00bs who really, really hate Lisp’s prefix notation, I have some good news: there’s a weird trick that allows you to use infix notation. Works in Elisp too! Get infix operators in Clojure with this one … Continue reading
Journalists and the Origin of COVID-19
Sorry Irreal readers but I’m about to embark on another rant about journalists and the origin of COVID-19 story. At first, it was a matter of curiosity. I read the reports of what the “experts” were saying and alarms went … Continue reading
Why You Should Learn Lisp This Year
For those of you who still haven’t learned some sort of Lisp, Gavin Freeborn has a video pushing the idea you should learn at least one of the Lisps this year. If you already know Lisp, the video won’t tell … Continue reading
Early Unix at Bell Labs
At the 2022 Linux Conference Australia, Brian Kernighan gave a delightful talk on the early days of Unix at Bell Labs. It’s not so much that Kernighan tells us stories that we haven’t heard before but that he puts everything … Continue reading