Monthly Archives: April 2022

Airbnb Faces and Adapts to the Future of Work

Posted on 2022-04-30 by jcs

With the COVID-19 pandemic winding down, many companies have started planing for getting their workers back into the office. They are, if you’ll forgive the hackneyed cliché, like dinosaurs after the meteor hit wondering how to get things back to … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Coffee Confidential

Posted on 2022-04-29 by jcs

This episode of Red Meat Friday isn’t really red meat so much as an account of a skirmish between two bête noires of yore. The two combatants were Microsoft and IBM. Not very long ago they were the two giants … Continue reading →

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The Golden Age of Emacs

Posted on 2022-04-28 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, tdavey asks if we’re living in the golden age of Emacs. He’s an unlikely person to be asking this question because he’s not a developer or scientist. He is, to use his words, “an ordinary … Continue reading →

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A User Discovers the Difference Between Vim and Emacs

Posted on 2022-04-27 by jcs

In another Vim to Emacs story, LowCom over at the Emacs subreddit offers his take on the transition. It’s interesting because his analysis focuses on how Vim and Emacs differ. He says, as I often have, that you can’t really … Continue reading →

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An Apostate Returns

Posted on 2022-04-26 by jcs

It’s a commonplace in the Emacs community that one of the big advantages of Emacs is that all your tools are connected and work with each other. Those of us at the extreme edge of that truism make it a … Continue reading →

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Hints For Writing Unix Tools

Posted on 2022-04-25 by jcs

Marius Eriksen has a useful post for those not afraid to leave the comfort of the GUI for the command line. It’s long been noted that the ability of Unix to compose tools into pipelines is extraordinarily powerful and makes … Continue reading →

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Editors versus IDEs

Posted on 2022-04-24 by jcs

Over at the Hacking the Grepson podcast, Mike and Matt discuss text editors versus IDEs. The podcast was at once informative and annoying. On the one hand, they discuss the difference between a text editor and an IDE. If you’re … Continue reading →

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Invoking the *Messages* Buffer

Posted on 2022-04-23 by jcs

The Emacs Command of the Day Twitter feed tells us something that I didn’t know: Fun fact about the minibuffer: you can click it when it’s inactive! This opens the *Messages* buffer. (Especially handy if you want to read messages … Continue reading →

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Org Mode 9.5.3

Posted on 2022-04-22 by jcs

I somehow missed this yesterday but Bastien has announced the release of Org-mode 9.5.3. It’s a bug release so it’s probably not urgent to install it unless you’re being bitten by one of the bugs. Bantien’s announcement notes that the … Continue reading →

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Tony Aldon On Catch/Throw

Posted on 2022-04-21 by jcs

Here’s another post from Tony Aldon. Sacha already covered it in Emacs News but it’s interesting enough that it deserves another mention. The post is about catch/throw and examples of its use. Aldon starts with some simple made up examples … Continue reading →

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