Monthly Archives: June 2026

Inhibit The Mouse In Emacs

Posted on 2026-06-04 by jcs

James Cherti has a new version (Release 1.0.4) of his inhibit-mouse package available. As the name suggests, it disables the mouse while you’re using Emacs. I’ve written about inhibit-mouse before. As I said in my previous post my first thought … Continue reading →

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Writing Is Like Science

Posted on 2026-06-03 by jcs

Rachel Yang is a studying to be a research scientist. She’s currently a Ph.D. student at MIT but has already worked on some projects leading to breakthroughs. She tells the story of the first such project when she was an … Continue reading →

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Sdcv-quick Update

Posted on 2026-06-02 by jcs

Years ago, when I learned from mbork how to get my own copy of Webster’s 1923 dictionary my dictionary use was vastly improved. If you don’t know why having Webster’s 1923 is a big thing, here’s my original post on … Continue reading →

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My Growing Appreciation For EWW

Posted on 2026-06-01 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about using EWW to avoid paywalls and my experiments to see if it really worked. As I reported, it did in a surprising number of cases. But as I also wrote, I’m not … Continue reading →

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