Tag Archives: RMF

🥩 Red Meat Friday: Should You Replace Emacs With An “AI Editor”?

Posted on 2024-09-06 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, harmanola, an Emacs user of 16 years, says that he’s recently switched from Emacs to Cursor, the AI code editor. It’s his opinion that Emacs has become unstable, that he’s tired of its “non-standard defaults”, … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Toilet paper

Posted on 2024-08-23 by jcs

Toilet paper? Wha? Most of us can go our entire lives—modulo COVID induced shortages—without ever thinking about it. You buy it, you use it, you buy some more. But COVID did make us think about this everyday item and wonder … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Getting Disappeared

Posted on 2024-08-02 by jcs

Hello. It’s me again, shouting into the wind and yelling at clouds. I’ve told you—warned you—over and over again to get off Google but you won’t listen. I’ve long since adopted the hard stance that I don’t care about your … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Minimal Configs

Posted on 2024-07-26 by jcs

This Irreal post on dependencies and this one on Emacs bloat discussed the idea that many Emacs users have too many packages and other capabilities enabled in their Emacs configuration files. I’ve never worried about that because, really, there’s no … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Roundabouts

Posted on 2024-07-19 by jcs

I grew up on the South Shore of Massachusetts and as far as I knew there was only one roundabout (Massachusetts calls them rotaries) in the world. It was on Cape Code and although I never thought much about it … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Is C Useful For Understanding How Computers Work

Posted on 2024-07-12 by jcs

This post didn’t start as a Red Meat Friday item but as I worked on it, I got so exercised I decided it really should be one. For me, the question of whether C helps with understanding how computers work … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Is Emacs Slow For You

Posted on 2024-06-21 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, MarkieAurelius has a mini-poll that asks: Is Emacs Slow For You? That’s a perennial question, of course. I last wrote about it a year ago. Not much has changed since then. The same uninformed people … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Emacs Doesn’t Have Plugins

Posted on 2024-05-31 by jcs

Note: I’m calling this a Red Meat Friday post because of the pushback I got the last time I broached the subject. It’s not really all that controversial. Over at the Emacs subreddit TheTwelveYearOld asks what makes Emacs and Lisp … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Things No Sensible Person Would Want

Posted on 2024-05-10 by jcs

People often say that as you get older you grow wiser and come to understand more and more things. Those people are lying. The older I get, the more things I don’t understand. Case in point. Why would anyone want … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: A Shot Across The Bow

Posted on 2024-04-19 by jcs

Virtually every regular Irreal reader knows that I’m not a Google fan. Along with Meta, they’ve done everything they can to hijack the free and open Web and turn it into a proprietary money machine. I can’t remember taking their … Continue reading →

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