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Monthly Archives: November 2024
Travelling With A Smartphone
If you’ve been reading Irreal for a while, you know that one of my goals is to be able to leave my house with nothing but my iPhone. That’s possible right now if you live in the right state, have … Continue reading
🥩 Red Meat Friday: Emacs For Word
In what has to be the silliest question of the week, Kiiwyy, over at the Emacs subreddit, asks do you use Emacs as a substitute for Word. In particular, he’s wondering if people use Emacs for class or project notes. … Continue reading
Why Isn’t There An Emacs 2?
Over at the Emacs subreddit, Available-Inside1426 asks why there isn’t an Emacs 2. By that he means a rewrite of Emacs to address what he sees as problems with Emacs. Those problems include the usual silliness like a better GUI … Continue reading
The End Of The Story (Finally)?
If you’re a younger engineer, this probably won’t mean much to you but if you’ve been around since, say, the turn of the century it’s a huge story. Darl McBride has died and, oddly, no one seems to have noticed. … Continue reading
CFPB: Customers Own Their Bank Data
The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) has ruled that, essentially, consumers own their banking data and banks must make it easy to retrieve that data and, if they wish, transfer it to another institution. That’s big news and another chapter … Continue reading
Adding A Year Tag From A Capture Template
James Dyer has a good idea for organizing his org-based notes. It’s simple: add a year tag to each note. It helps to organize the notes and makes it easy to filter them by year. When he first implemented the … Continue reading
The Blogosphere Is Dying(?)
As a nice contraposition to yesterday’s post on how the blogosphere is the only remaining vibrant part of that segment of the Internet dedicated to what could loosely be called “social media”, Venkatesh Rao opines that the blogosphere is dying. … Continue reading
The Ascendance Of The Blogosphere
The Guardian has an interesting article on longtime blogger Dave Winer and posits that the blogosphere is blooming while the rest of the Internet is wilting. By “the rest of the Internet” they actually mean social media. In a sense, … Continue reading
TSV To Table
Philippe Gaultier has an interesting post on making a table of project dependencies. He’s using Rust, for which there is a tool to produce a tab-delimited (TSV) file of dependencies. The problem, for Gaultier, is that the output is not … Continue reading