Monthly Archives: January 2025

Casual Image

Posted on 2025-01-31 by jcs

Charles Choi is back with another app in his Casual Suite. This time it’s for dealing with images from within Emacs. As Choi says, there are better ways of dealing with images than from within Emacs but for those of … Continue reading →

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Syncing Orgzly With Emacs

Posted on 2025-01-30 by jcs

One of the goals of many Emacs users is to be able read and write Org entries on their phones or tablets. There are several solutions for this. On the Android platform, one of the most popular was Orgzly. Sadly, … Continue reading →

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Pins And Their Distribution

Posted on 2025-01-29 by jcs

If you’re a reasonably connected person—not geek, person—your smartphone is the gateway to your life. It provides access to your bank accounts and other financial information, your on-line shopping accounts, your contacts, your email and chat history, and all other … Continue reading →

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Init.el File Organization

Posted on 2025-01-28 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has another really excellent video up. This time it’s about organizing your Emacs configuration file. Prot looks at two possible approaches. The first is to use the built-in outline mode and appropriately marked comments to have an … Continue reading →

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Are Blogs Dying?

Posted on 2025-01-27 by jcs

Even though he seldom posts Emacs videos anymore, I still faithfully follow Mike Zamansky’s blog. His latest post tells us that he’s rebooting his blog. That’s because he got a new tablet and thought that he might be able to … Continue reading →

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The Problem With Emacs Revisited

Posted on 2025-01-26 by jcs

Way back in 2005, Steve Yegge wrote a wonderful post, the-emacs-problem, that discussed why Lisp is the right language for dealing with text and why Emacs is the right tool for dealing with it. A few years later I wrote … Continue reading →

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A Platform That Molds To Your Needs

Posted on 2025-01-25 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez has a nice post that expands on his theme of gluing Emacs functions together. It’s a nice example in part because it’s so out of the ordinary and seemingly impossible from within Emacs. It turns out that Ramírez … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Stop Forcing Dark Mode On Us

Posted on 2025-01-24 by jcs

As you all know, we here at the Irreal bunker are not fans of dark mode. Of course, if you’re a benighted soul who likes dwelling in the dark on your own computer, I may shake my head in bewilderment … Continue reading →

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Escape From Walled Gardens With RSS

Posted on 2025-01-23 by jcs

I am not on Facebook. I’ve never been on Facebook. I’m not on Twitter/X. I’ve never been on them. My entire social media profile consists of Irreal. I’ve always had an aversion to things like Facebook and Twitter without really … Continue reading →

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Reliability

Posted on 2025-01-22 by jcs

We often see claims that such and such an application has \(99.\cdots\) reliability. That seems pretty definitive but what does it really mean? Here’s the answer. The difference between 99.9% and 99.99% is significant. By the time we get to … Continue reading →

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