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A Nice Dark Theme

Posted on 2023-07-06 by jcs

The Minions aren’t going to like me saying this but I’ve stumbled upon a nice and actually legible dark theme. idlip Dilip has a new, high-contrast theme, Haki, that started with Prot’s modus-vivendi and some of Daniel Mendler’s packages to … Continue reading →

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The Real Emacs Advantage

Posted on 2023-06-07 by jcs

After yesterday’s post I started thinking about what the real advantage of Emacs is. There are, as I’ve said many times, plenty of advantages but if you had to choose the most important one, what would it be? My recent … Continue reading →

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Another Take On Rss

Posted on 2023-01-02 by jcs

I’ve written numerous posts—the latest one here—about my admiration for RSS and how I use it to deliver interesting posts directly to my Emacs. I’m an unabashed fan and have never understood those who claim it died when Google Reader … Continue reading →

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The Year of RSS

Posted on 2022-12-24 by jcs

Irreal has considered RSS many times, especially since Google’s liquidation of RSS reader, There’s too many posts to cite here; just do a search for “RSS” on the Irreal site to see them. If you aren’t a silly person, you … Continue reading →

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A Graduate Student Research Workflow

Posted on 2022-08-08 by jcs

Koustuv Sinha is a PhD student in machine learning and natural language processing. Because much of his time is devoted to reading research papers in his field, he’s devoted significant effort into optimizing his workflow. The TL;DR is that he’s … Continue reading →

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Thoughts On Thoughts On RSS

Posted on 2022-08-03 by jcs

Matt Rickard has a—at least to me—provocative post on RSS. As I’ve said many times, I’m a big believer in and user of RSS. Google did its best to kill it off but it turned out to be too useful … Continue reading →

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Another Paean to RSS

Posted on 2022-03-30 by jcs

Radosław Miernik has a post that’s another paean to RSS. He explains what RSS is, how it works, and its advantages to the reader. It’s mostly used to track blog entries but its application is actually broader. Basically any site … Continue reading →

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Blogs and RSS

Posted on 2021-11-07 by jcs

Brandon Quakkelaar has an interesting post on Social Media, Blogs, and RSS. His feelings are amazingly congruent with mine. We both don’t care for social media but recognize that they present a good way of discovering new content. What are … Continue reading →

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RSS for the Researcher

Posted on 2021-10-19 by jcs

At the beginning of his Elfeed video, John Kitchen mentioned a paper by James Fraser on RSS for the researcher. This is notable for two reasons. First, there’s the paper itself, of course, but there’s also the very nice way … Continue reading →

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Another Emacs Configuration

Posted on 2021-09-14 by jcs

As you all know—at least if you’ve been around Irreal for a while—I like reading through other peoples Emacs configurations. It’s not just a matter of voyeurism; I almost always learn something from seeing how others use Emacs. The latest … Continue reading →

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