Monthly Archives: April 2024

Neal Stephenson On Emacs

Posted on 2024-04-10 by jcs

All of us Emacs nerds are familiar with Neal Stephenon’s essay In the Beginning…Was the Command Line, in which he describes Emacs as the thermonuclear word processor. A couple of years ago, he did a podcast with Lex Fridman in … Continue reading →

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Boeing’s Suicide Mission

Posted on 2024-04-09 by jcs

This is yet another post about Boeing and its troubles. I know I seem obsessive about this issue, and I am. It saddens me that a company known for—some would say who defined—engineering excellence has been hijacked by a pack … Continue reading →

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An Analysis Of The XZ Malware Injection Process

Posted on 2024-04-08 by jcs

If you’re in tech and not in a coma, you will have at least heard of the recent attempt to inject malware through the xz (de)compression utility. The technical press, as is its wont, has been blasting the story all … Continue reading →

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A Deep Dive On Registers

Posted on 2024-04-07 by jcs

Arialdo Martini is back with a very informative post about using registers to store buffer locations and other data. He starts with positing the need to store buffer locations by name rather than storing them in a ring buffer as … Continue reading →

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Writing With Emacs

Posted on 2024-04-06 by jcs

This post is about another of my browsers tabs that I’ve had open seemingly forever. It’s a curated list of resources for writing with Emacs. As such, it’s a nice coda to my previous post on Emacs writing workflows. It’s … Continue reading →

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An Emacs Writing Workflow

Posted on 2024-04-05 by jcs

I’ve written before about Peter Prevos and his Emacs Writing Studio but here’s a bit more. I’ve had this article about the Emacs writing workflow up in my browser for a long while and decided the time had come to … Continue reading →

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Recover Session

Posted on 2024-04-04 by jcs

I just came across a really interesting post from Tory Anderson. Like me, Anderson lives in Emacs. In fact, since he’s a Linux user and runs exwm, he lives in Emacs even more than I do. Anderson notes that sometime … Continue reading →

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Emacs, Org, and Pandoc

Posted on 2024-04-03 by jcs

I’ve been writing in Org mode for a long time. Every bit of Irreal began life as an Org doc and I have a huge collection of private documents that are also written in Org markup. The killer feature of … Continue reading →

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WiFi In The Rain: An April First Story

Posted on 2024-04-02 by jcs

I may have mentioned before that I always dread April Fools Day. The web is inevitably full of silly stories that start off making a bit of sense but quickly degrade into farce. Predrag Gruevski brings some welcome relief with … Continue reading →

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Compiling

Posted on 2024-04-01 by jcs

I’m an old guy and I’ve been programming for a long time. Virtually all of that programming has involved using a compiler or an assembler. Until I dabbled in AWK, Perl, and Python and started using Giuile, my only use … Continue reading →

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