Monthly Archives: July 2026

Flymake Diagnostics

Posted on 2026-07-21 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov has a quick post on a recent enhancement to Emacs Flymake. The TL;DR is that you can arrange for Flymake to append a diagnostic at the end of any line with a problem. It’s a quick way of … Continue reading →

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A Small Jinx Tweak

Posted on 2026-07-20 by jcs

As I’ve written recently [1, 2, 3, 4], I’ve been changing the Irreal Bunker’s spelling corrector to Jinx. I’ve had a couple of issues—mostly with choosing the correction—but things have mostly been smooth and Jinx has a lot of nice … Continue reading →

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Reading

Posted on 2026-07-19 by jcs

Elia Scotto has a very nice post on the reading habit. He says he’s been reading about a book a week for several years. The gist of the post is “how to read more books”. His advice for that is … Continue reading →

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Embark

Posted on 2026-07-18 by jcs

Some time ago, I installed Embark but I never got around to learning it and it has sat unused ever since. Then I saw this post by Bozhidar Batsov and decided to take another look. The problem with Embark is … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: The Apple TV Price Increase

Posted on 2026-07-17 by jcs

Jason Snell has a few words to say about Dan Rayburns’s post on LinkedIn concerning the price increase for Apple TV and why it spells the end of the device. I, too, have a couple of things to say. First, … Continue reading →

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The Computers Of Jurassic Park

Posted on 2026-07-16 by jcs

Jurassic Park was released 33 years ago. If you were there or know anything the movie, you know that computers played a large role in making it. The most famous example of that was the CGI rendering of T-Rex. I … Continue reading →

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Update To Jinx Reconsidered

Posted on 2026-07-15 by jcs

Yesterday I wrote that I had reconsidered my stance on Jinx and decided to give it a serious try. The only problem I had was that picking the correct spelling wasn’t working as advertised. I speculated that this was probably … Continue reading →

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Jinx Reconsidered

Posted on 2026-07-14 by jcs

In a stunning case of the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon, I’ve been running across the Jinx spelling corrector everywhere. I had never heard of it until last week when I watched and wrote about Prot’s video on writing in foreign languages with … Continue reading →

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Gruber On Apple Advertising

Posted on 2026-07-13 by jcs

John Gruber over at Daring Fireball has an excellent article about the slippery slope Apple is on with their embracing of advertising. I’ve written about this before. For a company like Apple, advertising is deeply corrupting and inevitably ends with … Continue reading →

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Jinx For Spell Correction

Posted on 2026-07-12 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a nice post on the Jinx spell corrector. Mbork has tried fly-spell but found it too laggy for his purposes. That was back in the days when he had a Pentium class machine running at 100 … Continue reading →

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