Monthly Archives: October 2025

In the old days, World Clocks were a sort of curiosity. There wasn’t a lot of need for them because most folks communicated with distant friends and colleagues with snail mail and later, I suppose, with email. In any event … Continue reading →

It’s Sunday and nobody—especially me—feels like working so here’s a short interlude while we’re waiting for the new week to begin. The subject of today’s post falls in the broad category of what could be called “mobile Emacs”. Most of … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subredit, iinnssdd says he was looking for a guide to speed up Emacs but couldn’t find one. Therefore, he put together his own. This is more than the usual “how to make Emacs load faster” article, … Continue reading →

One of the nice things about Emacs is that when you find yourself performing the same set of steps repeatedly, it’s easy to capture those steps into an Emacs function or even a keyboard macro. If you’re like me, you’ll … Continue reading →

If you’ve been around Irreal for a while you know that we here in the Irreal bunker have never felt the need for a starter kit. A lot of that is probably due to the fact that they weren’t generally … Continue reading →