Tag Archives: RMF

Red Meat Friday: Forget Linux, Just Use Emacs

Posted on 2022-03-04 by jcs

An enduring trope in the Emacs community is the notion that Emacs isn’t really an editor, it’s an operating system. We always say we’re joking but sometimes it’s hard to tell. The idea is not completely unfounded. After all, there’s … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Taking Up Space With Metadata

Posted on 2022-02-25 by jcs

Note: For some reason WordPress refused to embed Fraga’s tweet so I had to link to the tweet instead. As you all know by now, I prefer a minimalist approach to my editor screen layout. I want as much screen … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Résumé Gaps

Posted on 2022-02-11 by jcs

We’ve all been there. If not with TikZ then some other application: interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV me: yeah I was trying to make a complicated figure in TikZ and lost track of time and— interviewer: … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Emacs Discoverability

Posted on 2022-01-28 by jcs

Here’s nice coda to yesterday’s post on Mickey’s essay on bad Emacs advice. As with all great humor, this is hilarious precisely because of the truth it’s based on.

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Red Meat Friday: SICP in JavaScript

Posted on 2022-01-21 by jcs

Remember a couple of weeks ago when I declared No. Just no? Well, here’s another, even more emphatic, refusal to accept the apocalypse. No. Just HELL no! The thing about SICP is how simple and beautiful the code is and … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Unix in the Browser

Posted on 2022-01-07 by jcs

No. Just No. Semiserious afterword I get that there’s some great engineering behind this but why would you want to “run” Unix in the browser? And why, in the name of all that’s holy, would you want an OS built … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: The Oxford Comma

Posted on 2021-12-24 by jcs

There’s a particularly odious type of reprobate who refuses to use the Oxford comma. A subset of the type can claim ignorance as a mitigating factor but, sadly, the majority of the transgressors do so with full knowledge and understanding … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Cursive’s Last Stand

Posted on 2021-12-10 by jcs

It’s been a while since I’ve ventured into the emotional minefield that is cursive handwriting. Here’s a couple of tweets from Paul Graham that make two very good points: They should start by at least not making kids learn the … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: See? This Is Why We Needed The Revolution

Posted on 2021-12-03 by jcs

As a nice coda to yesterday’s post, Liam Proven offers this bit of heresy: I became a double-hyphener years ago and it’s a hard habit to break. But while the em-dash *is* great — let’s do it the British way, … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Take That, Neovim

Posted on 2021-11-19 by jcs

PSA: Any title that starts with “Neo” is either superfluous or misleading. — Kontra (@counternotions) November 12, 2021

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