Tag Archives: Tech

Emacs For a Single Line of Text

Posted on 2019-08-27 by jcs

What if you could use Emacs to edit the command line? Wouldn’t that be great? Well, of course, you can. Not only can but almost certainly do. I’m not talking about invoking Emacs from Bash with Ctrl+x Ctrl+e; I’m talking … Continue reading →

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Paul Ford on Uses This

Posted on 2019-08-24 by jcs

Ever since I stumbled upon it back in 2011, I’ve been a big fan of Uses This (nee The Setup), which features short interviews with tech or creative people. Each interview is the same in that they ask the identical … Continue reading →

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The Truth About PowerPoint

Posted on 2019-08-19 by jcs

But then we already knew that.

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Six Useful Git Tips

Posted on 2019-08-15 by jcs

I feel pretty safe saying that the version control wars are over and that Git has won. To be sure, there’s Subversion and a couple of other distributed version control systems whose names nobody can recall but mostly it’s Git. … Continue reading →

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The DMV and NULL: A Cautionary Tale

Posted on 2019-08-13 by jcs

The other day, I came across an amusing story on the KNRS Website. It involved an IT worker named Droogie who thought it would be fun to prank the DMV by buying the vanity license plate “NULL”. It was, he … Continue reading →

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What Happened At Boeing?

Posted on 2019-08-11 by jcs

As the dismal story of the Boeing 737 Max fiasco drags on, it’s worth taking a look at how the disaster happened. Boeing, after all, has been around since 1916—to put that in context, the Wright brothers made their famous … Continue reading →

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Bayes’ Theorem and The Replication Crisis

Posted on 2019-08-06 by jcs

I’ve written before about the replication crisis and the shockingly low reproducibility rates in scientific research. I’ve usually focused on psychology but sadly medicine is even worse. I’ve usually viewed these problems through the lens of reproducible research and have … Continue reading →

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MAlt: CERN Strikes a Blow for Open Source

Posted on 2019-07-29 by jcs

Microsoft has been a sleeping dragon lately. Those who haven’t been around for more than, say, 10 years probably don’t remember how ferocious and predatory they were. Still, to mangle a metaphor, the dragon hasn’t really changed his scales. For … Continue reading →

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Minimalism

Posted on 2019-07-25 by jcs

As I wrote in my Ten Years post, I’ve become interested in leveraging my digital life style as a way of further simplifying my life. My post on everyday carry is an example of this: searching for ways to minimize … Continue reading →

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The First Rule

Posted on 2019-07-22 by jcs

For many years I had the good fortune to work with a small team of very talented software engineers. The team stayed together across many jobs working for many different companies. Our work was always related to computer networking and … Continue reading →

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