Monthly Archives: August 2026

🥩 Red Meat Friday: What’s Wrong With This Picture?

Posted on 2026-08-21 by jcs

If you’ve been around Irreal at all, you know that I have little tolerance for stupidity on the part of the “suits”. My go to example is Boeing where an essentially ignorant group of finance based suits turned the world’s … Continue reading →

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Setup For The Casual Suite

Posted on 2026-08-20 by jcs

Charles Choi has announced the release of Casual 3.0. There are now 26 modules in the Casual suite but this release is about providing an easier setup for the suite. Prior to this release, each module had to be set … Continue reading →

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Switching To A Window In Another Frame

Posted on 2026-08-19 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez, author of Journelly and many other useful applications—a lot of them Emacs based—has a new post about a basic Emacs operation: changing focus to another window. Ramírez and I basically agree about things like this although he stubbornly … Continue reading →

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Emacs 31.1 RC1

Posted on 2026-08-18 by jcs

Great news! Sean Whitton writes to announce the release of Emacs 31.1 RC1. This is the final step before the formal release of the Emacs 31 series. Whitton remarks that the developers are hoping that RC1 will be the only … Continue reading →

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Going Dark For Real This Time

Posted on 2026-08-17 by jcs

Most Irreal readers interested in security and privacy are familiar with Matthew Green, a cryptographer at Johns Hopkins University. He’s got a new post up that is terrifying to those of us who want to keep our private things private. … Continue reading →

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Emacs Backups

Posted on 2026-08-16 by jcs

Raymond Zeitler over at Ray on Emacs doesn’t use version control for his “non-public” files so when he had a problem with his .emacs file, he didn’t have any backups except for the single last version of a file that … Continue reading →

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Emacs Users

Posted on 2026-08-15 by jcs

Chris Maiorana has a lovely blog post in which he makes the case that Emacs users are a different breed. He starts with the quotidian observation that you can be pretty sure that a Vim or VSCode user is either … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: The Perils Of Rewriting

Posted on 2026-08-14 by jcs

The Emacs Cat, of whom I’ve written many times, has a post on a broken change in Ubuntu that affected Emacs. The TL;DR is that the Cat upgraded to Ubuntu 26.4 but when he tried to use Emacs he discovered … Continue reading →

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Some Thursday Humor

Posted on 2026-08-13 by jcs

I don’t see anything in my feed worth writing about so I offer this bit of humor to help you get through the day. If you’ve ever wondered why an S-expressions is called an sexp, here’s your answer. Like all … Continue reading →

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Emacs Development: Ongoing And Good

Posted on 2026-08-12 by jcs

One of the things that we Emacers hear with tiring frequency is that Emacs is moribund, old technology loved only by graybeards stuck in the last century. In fact, as actual users know, Emacs is undergoing constant development and is … Continue reading →

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