Monthly Archives: May 2022

FIDO and The End of Passwords

Posted on 2022-05-11 by jcs

Eight years ago, I wrote about FIDO, a proposal to replace passwords with a secure way of signing onto sites and applications. Of course, anyone can propose a new, better protocol for a security problem but implementing it and getting … Continue reading →

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The Emacs 28 Edition of Mastering Emacs

Posted on 2022-05-10 by jcs

Good news for all Emacsers who have a copy of Mickey Petersen’s excellent Mastering Emacs: Mickey has updated the book to cover Emacs 28. You can read the “2022 Edition Update” section of the book at the previous link but … Continue reading →

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Following Org Links Outside of Org

Posted on 2022-05-09 by jcs

Tony Aldon has been busy posting informative articles to the Emacs reddit. One of his latest discusses org-open-at-point-global, a way of following a link formatted in Org syntax even if it’s not within an Org buffer. That’s something I didn’t … Continue reading →

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Org Roam From An Outsider’s View

Posted on 2022-05-08 by jcs

As most of you know, I’m a big fan of the Zettelkasten idea and of its org-roam implementation in Emacs. There are several videos on org-roam, including the System Crafter series, that will help you get started. Matt Williams also … Continue reading →

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Renaming Files With Dired

Posted on 2022-05-07 by jcs

I’ve written about this many times before but it’s so useful it bears repeating. It’s about a technique I use all the time and one that I’m sure the rest of you will find worthwhile too. This post is inspired … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Real Software Is Not Written with IDEs

Posted on 2022-05-06 by jcs

Last week’s Red Meat Friday was essentially anodyne so here’s something to get (certain) people’s juices flowing: real software is written in #vim, #nano, or #emacs. if you still use an ide (especially for interpreter languages), go back to high … Continue reading →

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Pointers

Posted on 2022-05-05 by jcs

One of the hardest things to learn in C—indeed, many say it’s the acid test for a good C programmer—is pointers. Here’s an amusing cartoon (via Karl Voit) that explains it as well as any other explanation I’ve seen. Pointers … Continue reading →

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Choosing Your Tools

Posted on 2022-05-04 by jcs

Yann Esposito has an interesting take on choosing tools and the choice between VS Code and Emacs. His post is from a couple of years ago but has aged well. He reminds us of a Microsoft strategy that we all … Continue reading →

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Are Multiple Cursors Suboptimal?

Posted on 2022-05-03 by jcs

Over at EINVAL, Wojciech Siewierski considers multiple cursors (in Emacs) and whether it’s suboptimal. His post is entitled Multiple cursors considered… suboptimal, which seems rather provocative but the post is actually very even handed and concludes, as you’d expect, that … Continue reading →

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Another PhD Workflow

Posted on 2022-05-02 by jcs

I’ve written previously about the PhD workflows of Gilles Castel and Sam Wallace. They’re Emacs based and highly efficient. Now, Tony Zorman has published his own PhD workflow. It’s also Emacs based and has several interesting wrinkles. The most salient … Continue reading →

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