Monthly Archives: December 2023

Denote 2.2.0 Released

Posted on 2023-12-11 by jcs

Good news for those of you who been following my posts [1, 2] on Protesilaos Stavrou’s Denote. The changes that I wrote about are now officially available in Version 2.2.0. The two main changes are the ones I wrote about—sorting … Continue reading →

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Marking Cut Regions

Posted on 2023-12-10 by jcs

Just a quickie today. Tory Anderson has an interesting post illustrating something that I had no idea existed. You may—especially if you’re an old timer—be familiar with ’’cut marks“. They’re usually used to delimit code that an end user may … Continue reading →

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PSA: The Emacs/GnuPG Problem

Posted on 2023-12-09 by jcs

Most Emacs users are probably aware of the current problem with using Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG) with Emacs. The TL;DR is that although you can open GnuPG encrypted files, you can’t edit and resave them. This problem was introduced in … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Chrome Atrocities

Posted on 2023-12-08 by jcs

Metanote: I wasn’t sure if this post really merited being designated a Red Meat Friday item but it is polemical and will doubtless anger some people so I guess it qualifies. As most of you know, we here at Irreal … Continue reading →

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Why NYXT Is Programmed In Lisp

Posted on 2023-12-07 by jcs

NYXT is a browser with a workflow inspired by Emacs and Vim. In particular, it strives to be keyboard driven and use Emacs-like shortcuts to speed and ease navigation. The development team takes this inspiration seriously and uses Common Lisp … Continue reading →

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Sorted File Listings in Denote

Posted on 2023-12-06 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) is continuing to add new features to the upcoming release of Denote. The latest changes are about sorted listings of Denote files. Back in November, I wrote about Prot’s work on another new feature: dynamic blocks. Part … Continue reading →

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Emacs Elements On Bookmarks

Posted on 2023-12-05 by jcs

Emacs Elements has a new video on bookmarks out. I’ve written about bookmarks before—most recently here—but it bears repeating how useful they can be. I don’t have a huge bookmark list but I use those bookmarks several times a day. … Continue reading →

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Reasons To Work From Home

Posted on 2023-12-04 by jcs

There’s been an ocean of words written about why it makes sense for companies to support work from home. Irreal has reported on a lot of it. A bit less has been written about why it makes sense for the … Continue reading →

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Remote Work versus Revenue Growth

Posted on 2023-12-03 by jcs

Forbes has an interesting article that, to mix a metaphor, puts another stake through the heart of the Zombie that is the notion remote work is somehow harmful to productivity and the bottom line. It’s an idea that refuses to … Continue reading →

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Building A Bookmark Launcher

Posted on 2023-12-02 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez has a very nice post on Building your own bookmark launcher. The idea is that you have certain Web sites that you visit all the time and you’d like a quick way of opening them in your browser. … Continue reading →

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