Monthly Archives: February 2026

Harp: A Private Health Records App

Posted on 2026-02-28 by jcs

Abhinav Tushar likes to curate what he calls macro health data. That means things like ailments, aches and pains, and other symptoms one might want to mention to the doctor during an appointment. After researching the currently available apps, he … Continue reading →

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Emacs Internals Part 1

Posted on 2026-02-27 by jcs

Yi-Ping Pan has an interesting post that recapitulates one of my favorite hobby horses: Emacs is actually a modern day Lisp Machine that happens to ship with an embedded editor. Pan kept trying other editors but always returned to Emacs. … Continue reading →

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A Unix/Emacs Blast From The Past

Posted on 2026-02-26 by jcs

Although many of us won’t admit it, we all enjoy a bit of nostalgia. Here’s some from 20 to 25 years ago. Kids today™, they don’t know how good they have it. There’s a tendency to romance the “powerful” workstations … Continue reading →

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Dark Sky Redux

Posted on 2026-02-25 by jcs

I have to admit to being a bit of a weather nerd. Florida, of course, has very active weather—especially in the Summer—so some of my obsession is self preservation but I also follow the weather where family members reside and … Continue reading →

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Elisp Pre-commit Hooks

Posted on 2026-02-24 by jcs

Another short post today but one that some of you may find useful. Over at the Emacs subreddit, James Cherti offers a set of commit hooks for Elisp programmers. There are hooks that check for parenthesis consistency, byte compile to … Continue reading →

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Org 9.8

Posted on 2026-02-23 by jcs

Ihor Radchenko writes to tell us about the release of Org Mode 9.8. It’s a pretty big release as you can see from the Changes file. It’s much too long to list the changes here and, of course, not everyone … Continue reading →

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Flycheck 36

Posted on 2026-02-22 by jcs

Note: As I was preparing tomorrow’s post, I noticed that I forgot to publish today’s. Sorry. Here it is, better late than never. Over at Meta Redux, Bozhidar Batsov has announced the release of Flycheck 36. It has, he says, … Continue reading →

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A Case In Point

Posted on 2026-02-21 by jcs

The fates are still punishing me for leaving home for travel. Today I had two errands to run: Renew a driver license Return an unused TV set top box to my provider The DMV is, of course, a red flag … Continue reading →

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Disaster At The Bunker

Posted on 2026-02-20 by jcs

I returned home Wednesday night to discover that the minions, far from guarding the bunker, had been enjoying a nonstop Bacchanalia and that the bunker had been without Internet connectivity for a couple of days. I should have known something … Continue reading →

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Using –init-directory To Debug

Posted on 2026-02-19 by jcs

The standard advice people get when they complain about some bug or difficulty with Emacs is to restart it with -q or -Q to see if the problem persists. The problem with that advice is that the difficulty may be … Continue reading →

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