Monthly Archives: September 2024

Emacs Has No Learning Curve

Posted on 2024-09-30 by jcs

Paul E. Johnson is a member of the Political Science Department at the University of Kansas. As such, he’s not a canonical Emacs user but he has a provacative set of slides that suggests that, in fact, Emacs doesn’t have … Continue reading →

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Emacs Popups In macOS

Posted on 2024-09-29 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Protesilaos Stavrou’s excellent post on triggering an Emacs popup from anywhere in your system. It’s perfect for Org capture and other things you might want to do when you’re in some other … Continue reading →

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Why Emacs: The View From Vim

Posted on 2024-09-28 by jcs

As every Irreal surely knows, I’m a die hard Emacs user but I was, for a long time, a Vim user and still consider it one of the two best editors. It’s long been my view that Emacs and Vim … Continue reading →

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After Action Report: Helene

Posted on 2024-09-27 by jcs

Just a quick note to let you know what’s happening at the Irreal bunker. We got through the passage of Helene without mishap but just as the storm had moved to the North of us and we were out of … Continue reading →

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Hy 1.0.0

Posted on 2024-09-26 by jcs

Eight and a half years ago, I wrote about the Hy language and John Kitchin’s experiments with it [1, 2]. The TL;DR is that Hy lets you write in a Lisp-like language while having access to the power of Python. … Continue reading →

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Hurricane Headsup

Posted on 2024-09-25 by jcs

Just a heads up. Hurricane Helena is coming up the Florida coast and is predicted to be huge and strong (a Cat 4). Fortunately for the Irreal Bunker it will be pretty far offshore from Tampa but given its huge … Continue reading →

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Emacs Doc Bling

Posted on 2024-09-25 by jcs

As most of you know, Irreal doesn’t think much of editor-connected bling. We much prefer simple efficiency to flashy accouterments that, in the end, simply get in the way of a decent editing experience. That’s true even though they can, … Continue reading →

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Casual EditKit

Posted on 2024-09-24 by jcs

Charles Choi has another Casual app on offer. This time it’s a comprehensive set of menus, Casual EditKit, that capture the various editing commands. On the one hand, these are commands that you really need to know to become proficient … Continue reading →

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Holding The Program In Your Head

Posted on 2024-09-23 by jcs

Paul Graham has a very interesting post that considers why it’s so hard for most corporations to produce good software. Actually, his post isn’t quite about that. Rather, it discusses why it’s so hard and so important for a programmer … Continue reading →

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Phrontisterion

Posted on 2024-09-22 by jcs

A few days ago, I wrote about Trevor Hopkins’ site and his hosting of some very nice material concerning Iain M Banks’ Culture universe. My post was about a detailed description of the Culture and how it works that was … Continue reading →

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