Monthly Archives: July 2026

Highest Org Priority

Posted on 2026-07-11 by jcs

If you’re an Org user, you probably know that you can assign a priority to TODO items. By default, the priorities are A, B, and C but with a bit of trickery you can extend the ranges to 0–9 and … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Apple And The Cost Of Ram

Posted on 2026-07-10 by jcs

The technical press is wetting their pants—or pretending to—about Apple1 raising prices on many of their products due to the AI industry fed rise in RAM prices. It’s outrageous, they claim. Apple should just eat the cost of those increases … Continue reading →

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Globally Overriding Keys

Posted on 2026-07-09 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (prot) has an excellent video that addresses a problem I often see people asking about. The problem is how to globally set a key binding so that it won’t be overridden. He uses setting Meta+o to other-window as … Continue reading →

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Insert Mode

Posted on 2026-07-08 by jcs

My pal Watts Martin has a post that explores an artifact from the past: the insert key. Martin, who’s been a Mac head much longer than I have, remembers when Mac keyboards still had an Insert. They no longer do, … Continue reading →

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Problems With Org Mode Code Blocks

Posted on 2026-07-07 by jcs

Raymond Zeitler has an interesting post on an aspect of using Org Mode code blocks that I didn’t know about. Zeitler says that he prefers to write his code in separate code files rather than in Org mode code blocks … Continue reading →

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Linux Removes Strncpy

Posted on 2026-07-06 by jcs

Back when I learned C, people were still using strcpy and even gets. After a while, people started saying that strcpy wasn’t safe and that you should use strncpy instead to avoid buffer overruns, either accidental or deliberate. Those days … Continue reading →

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Using Emacs Input Methods For Foreign Languages

Posted on 2026-07-05 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has a very nice video on writing foreign languages with Emacs. The main problem for Latin languages are the diacritical marks. Other languages, such as Greek, Russian, and Chinese, have completely different alphabets. In either case, Emacs … Continue reading →

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Breaking Version Changes Coming To MELPA

Posted on 2026-07-04 by jcs

Jonas Bernoulli (tarsius) has a long post announcing new channels and versioning on MELPA. Why a long post? And, really, why should we care? It turns out that the process is much more complicated than you’d think it would be … Continue reading →

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Automatically Signing And Encrypting Email With Mu4e

Posted on 2026-07-03 by jcs

Nicolas Cavigneaux has an excellent post on signing and optionally encrypting emails sent with mu4e. The idea is to sign each email you send and if you have a GPG key for every recipient, encrypt it was well. As Cavigneaux … Continue reading →

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Magit 4.6 Is Released

Posted on 2026-07-02 by jcs

Jonas Bernoulli is announcing the release of Magit 4.6. It includes, he says, over 300 commits since the last release 6 months ago. You can check Bernoulli’s post for the details but an overview is that the main changes were … Continue reading →

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