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Building A Password Generator in 3 Minutes

Posted on 2021-01-06 by jcs

Today—the whole week really—has been consumed by yak shaving so this is a short offering. Salah Qadri has a nice 3 minute video (3 minutes, 48 secs actually) in which he builds a reasonably good password generator. The generator builds … Continue reading →

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REPLs

Posted on 2021-01-03 by jcs

Mikel Evins has a lovely post that considers interactive programming and REPLs. As many of you know, I love interactive programming and am a huge fan of it. I like how you can try out bits of code and feel … Continue reading →

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A Global Hyper Key

Posted on 2020-12-30 by jcs

There’s an interesting article over at Prodtyping that illustrates how to implement a global Hyper key on the Mac. By “global” I mean it works everywhere, not just Emacs. The idea is to use Hyper as a global shortcut key. … Continue reading →

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Letting Google Control Your Home

Posted on 2020-12-17 by jcs

My immediate reaction when I saw this: Why would you give @Google control over anything in your home? https://t.co/4OwqMRTgM9 — Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly) December 16, 2020 was absolute agreement. Why would anyone entrust Google with their home lighting? It’s the … Continue reading →

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Bit By Bit?

Posted on 2020-12-15 by jcs

Speaking of screaming from all sides, here’s a warning for those of you who are open source advocates and VS Code users. Microsoft has released a new LSP server for Python. The server is for VS Code and Microsoft says … Continue reading →

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This Is Tech Journalism

Posted on 2020-12-09 by jcs

Even casual readers know that Irreal holds a generally dim view of journalists. But this isn’t another post about their bias and ignorance of their subject matter. This is a post about silliness masquerading as serious journalism. It’s about writing … Continue reading →

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Phone Notifications When a Command Completes

Posted on 2020-12-06 by jcs

Before we get to today’s topic, I want to point you to Mike Zamansky’s latest video on using Clojure for Advent of Code problems. Emacs appears, of course, although it’s not really the point of the video. Even so, I … Continue reading →

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Coding Fonts

Posted on 2020-11-21 by jcs

I like looking at programmers’ fonts. Every time I see one announced or mentioned that I didn’t know about, I have to take a look. It’s rather odd, then, that I’ve been using the Inconsolata font since before I became … Continue reading →

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Sudo by Touch ID on Macs

Posted on 2020-11-19 by jcs

This post is just a quickie for those of you using a Mac with Touch ID. My latest MacBook Pro has Touch ID and I was surprised at how much I like and use it. It’s especially handy for 1Passowrd … Continue reading →

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Asimov on Science and Superstition

Posted on 2020-11-15 by jcs

I recently came across an old video of Isaac Asimov being interviewed about his thoughts on science, rationality, and superstition. It’s from 1988 but, sadly, still relevant today. Much of Asimov’s discussion concerns his thoughts about religion but that’s not … Continue reading →

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