Tag Archives: RMF

Red Meat Friday: Gategate

Posted on 2025-11-14 by jcs

I don’t know about the rest of you but I’m fed up with the “-gate” meme. Lazy and generally ignorant journalists keep describing every would be scandal—no matter how trivial—as x-gate. The latest example that I’ve seen is the so … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Emacs Startup Time Again

Posted on 2025-10-10 by jcs

I’ve come realize that, sadly, I’m addicted to posts about Emacs startup time. Every healthy person knows that Emacs startup time doesn’t matter. That’s because, of course, experienced Emacs users seldom restart their editor. They just leave it running all … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Live Wallpapers

Posted on 2025-09-19 by jcs

As most of you know, I’m—if not exactly a mac-head—an Apple user for most of my computing needs. I like the way the way all my devices interoperate and can share data, and, of course, I like—require—that it provides me … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Can We Stop Acting Like 5 Year Olds

Posted on 2025-09-05 by jcs

I recently saw this Tweet by John Carmack about developing new operating systems. Carmack is of the opinion that it’s rarely justifiable and when it is, “[Y]ou practically need an isolated monastic order of computer engineers.” I don’t have an … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Hell On Earth

Posted on 2025-08-29 by jcs

Did you ever wonder what Hell on earth would look like? Here you go. Imagine having to rely on Windows XP, Windows 3.11, or even MS-DOS to get your daily work done. Imagine waiting 15 minutes for your computer to … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: We Should Stop Whining

Posted on 2025-07-18 by jcs

Want to feel ashamed? Of course you don’t but this post will make you feel that way anyway. Too many of us spend our time whining about the tech we use. One aspect of that is how hard it is … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Load Times Matter?

Posted on 2025-05-30 by jcs

It seems as if everybody having even a passing acquaintance with Emacs is opining about Emacs load times. That includes Irreal, of course. Most of us take the position that it doesn’t really matter how long it takes Emacs to … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meet Friday: Parenthesis: Get Over It Already

Posted on 2025-05-02 by jcs

As you almost certainly know, we here at Irreal have little patience for those constantly whining about parentheses in Lisp. They seem to us like little kids complaining to Mom that “it’s not fair”. Apparently, we’re not the only ones. … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Why Lisp “Lost”

Posted on 2025-03-07 by jcs

Back in 2018, Steve Losh wrote a very nice, long post on A Road to Common Lisp. If you’re a Lisper, it’s well worth reading. Recently, Alexander_Selkirk posted, without comment, a link to that post. The last time I wrote … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Parenthesis In Lisp

Posted on 2025-02-07 by jcs

I love Lisp. I think it’s the perfect language for a very wide variety of problems, that it’s powerful, easy to learn, and that it provides the perfect environment for what I call exploratory programming. There are some downsides. One … Continue reading →

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