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Monthly Archives: November 2023
A Blast From The Past: Making Gnupg Work With Emacs
I was a little bored today so I thought, “I know, I’ll upgrade all the programs I’ve installed with homebrew.” There were 58 of them that were out of date so it was probably time. I fired off brew upgade … Continue reading
Zamansky: Learning Elisp #13
Mike Zamansky has published the latest video in his emoji project. It’s a short video but, for me, the most useful so far. That’s because it’s about something I didn’t understand very well: overlays. In the last video, Zamansky showed … Continue reading
Running Unix v6
There are lots of people who enjoy the opportunity to experience what it was like to work on early Unix systems. That’s been possible for a long time. Indeed, there’s a cottage industry of experimenters who have built PDP emulators, … Continue reading
The ed Video
After yesterday’s post on Thompson’s famous hack, I watched the video of Thompson’s talk at this year’s Southern California Linux Expo that Cox mentioned. That was pretty interesting as another example of Thompson’s curiosity and genius but the point for … Continue reading
How The Thompson Hack Worked
Every year or so I revisit and write about Ken Thompson’s 1983 Turing Award lecture, Reflections on Trusting Trust. It’s one of those papers that should be read every year: it seems there’s always something new to learn. The paper … Continue reading
Does Working From Home Damage Productivity?
I was shuffling through my browser tabs and discovered an item that I meant to write about but had forgotten. It’s dated September 29 so it’s not that old and it’s still germane to the remote work discussion. It’s an … Continue reading
Org-flow-mode
jouke hijlkema has published a nifty project that uses Org mode to draw flow charts. “Uses Org mode” means, in addition to the obvious, that the Org source tree reflects the diagram tree. The project is still new and development … Continue reading
🥩 Red Meat Friday: You Don’t Need A Terminal Emulator
Andrey Listopadov has an interesting post that advances the notion that you don’t need a terminal emulator. To developers, that’s already an idea worthy of being included as a Red Meat Friday offering but the real reason this is a … Continue reading
Five Shell One Liners
Perhaps I’m just old fashioned and pining for the old days. Or perhaps I’m anticipating the time when I can finally wave my cane at all those pesky kids. Whatever the case, I do believe that avoiding the command line—or … Continue reading
Emacs Line Wrapping
Line breaking in Emacs is a complicated thing. By default the line just stops at the window edge and you have to scroll right to see some or all of the truncated part. This is called truncating long lines. That’s … Continue reading