Tag Archives: Tech

Screen Real Estate

Posted on 2019-04-09 by jcs

A month ago, Mike Zamansky posted that he’d just replaced his two 27 inch monitors with a new 43 inch 4K monitor. I commented that every time I saw a post like his, I had an urge to run out … Continue reading →

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When You Should Use Gotos

Posted on 2019-04-05 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Vivek Haldar’s discussion of Dijkstra’s famous paper on why you shouldn’t use gotos in higher order languages. Dijkstra’s admonition has become received wisdom these days to the point of becoming a shibboleth … Continue reading →

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Goto

Posted on 2019-03-17 by jcs

Everyone in our field knows about Dijkstra’s famous paper Go To Statement Considered Harmful but how many have actually read the paper or know what his arguments were? Mostly we use it as a template to generate memes of the … Continue reading →

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How and Why To Normalize Unicode

Posted on 2019-03-15 by jcs

From the excellent TeX Tip twitter feed, I found a pointer to an excellent article by Alessandro Segala concerning something I didn’t know much about and that many Irreal readers might not know about either: how and why to normalize … Continue reading →

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An Afterword on Being Almost There

Posted on 2019-03-13 by jcs

In a comment to my recent post on achieving a digital life, Zarniwoop asks about the risks of putting all my eggs in one basket if everything I need for everyday carry is on my iPhone. That’s a question I … Continue reading →

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Almost There

Posted on 2019-03-11 by jcs

As regular readers know, I try to live the digital life as much as I can. By “digital life” I mean eschewing paper and paper processes and running as much of my life as possible with my phone and computers. … Continue reading →

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Texting and Line Editing

Posted on 2019-03-08 by jcs

In the past, I’ve written disparagingly about line editing as practiced with the ed editor. That’s not to say that ed isn’t a great editor or that it doesn’t have its uses even today, just that no one (in their … Continue reading →

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Some Wisdom on Pipelines

Posted on 2019-03-03 by jcs

Over at his blog, Ted Dziuba has posted a valuable piece of wisdom that is easy to forget. The TL;DR on the wisdom is that many tasks for which we instinctively turn to heavy-weight, distributed tools are more easily and … Continue reading →

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A Nice Linux Desktop Setup

Posted on 2019-02-27 by jcs

Dennis Felsing over at HookRace Blog has an interesting post on his Linux desktop setup. He’s a Vim user so he doesn’t have the advantages that Emacs brings for integrating common tasks into a consistent framework. Still, he has built … Continue reading →

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Stephen Wolfram’s Personal Infrastructure

Posted on 2019-02-22 by jcs

Over at his blog, Stephen Wolfram writes about his personal infrastructure and workflow. Wolfram, of course, is the CEO of Wolfram Research, the company behind Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha. He describes himself as a very hands-on CEO but what’s surprising … Continue reading →

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