Monthly Archives: June 2022

Am I Being Watched?

Posted on 2022-06-20 by jcs

If you’re paranoid, the answer is “of course”. If you aren’t paranoid, the answer is “of course”. Here’s a humorous tweet that provides the proof: 👀 pic.twitter.com/F4B6ms5JiD — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 30, 2022

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Emacs and the Lindy Effect

Posted on 2022-06-19 by jcs

Vivek Haldar has an observation about the expected lifetime of Emacs: Safe to say that at this point #emacs has gone Lindy.https://t.co/HjsfWmE3ug — Vivek Haldar (@vivekhaldar) June 12, 2022 The Lindy Effect postulates that the longer some (nonperishable) entity has … Continue reading →

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Highlighting

Posted on 2022-06-18 by jcs

This week there were two excellent posts on highlighting in Emacs. The first was Marcin Borkowski’s post, Highlighting and de-highlighting things. He covers most of highlighting commands but not their default keybindings. When I first saw Borkowski’s post I thought … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: This Seems About Right

Posted on 2022-06-17 by jcs

It appears Irreal’s disdain for journalists and politicians is not sui generis: Who do you trust the most? — Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) June 15, 2022

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Sudo via Touch ID on the Mac

Posted on 2022-06-16 by jcs

A couple of years ago, I wrote about using Touch ID to enable sudo on the Mac. Someone just posted a link to the original article on Six Colors. It turns out to be incredibly simple—a single line added to … Continue reading →

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Rich Stevens

Posted on 2022-06-15 by jcs

One of my heroes, perhaps my greatest hero was Rich Stevens. The other day, someone posted a link on reddit to a Salon article about Stevens published a year after his death. It made me remember my huge debt to … Continue reading →

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Elfeed-tube

Posted on 2022-06-14 by jcs

As regular readers know, I’m a huge fan of RSS and of using elfeed to read and curate my feeds. If you’re an Emacs user and not using elfeed, you’re really missing out. It’s the absolute best feed reader I’ve … Continue reading →

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How To Create A Missing Directory

Posted on 2022-06-13 by jcs

If you’ve been around Emacs for a while, you probably know that Emacs has you covered if you call find-file (Ctrl+x Ctrl+f) and specify a path with a missing directory. You simply get asked if you want to create the … Continue reading →

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Spaced Repetition

Posted on 2022-06-12 by jcs

One of the things that I wish I’d known during my school years is the technique of spaced repetition. The TL;DR is that it’s a method for learning and remembering material that’s much more efficient and reliable than other common … Continue reading →

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Apple Passkeys

Posted on 2022-06-11 by jcs

At WWDC, Apple just announced Passkeys, their implementation of the FIDO protocols that aim to replace passwords. In Apple’s case, this capability will be available with iOS 16 and macOS Ventura, probably this fall. The other vendors are doubtless planning … Continue reading →

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