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An Email Based Git Workflow

Posted on 2018-07-28 by jcs

A couple of months ago in writing about the Microsoft acquisition of GitHub I said that many projects—large, complicated ones like Linux and Emacs at that—didn’t use GitHub or its siblings at all but depended on email and (raw) Git … Continue reading →

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Managing Forks and Pull Request in GitHub

Posted on 2018-07-26 by jcs

Susam Pal has an excellent write-up on how to fork a project, make some contribution to it, and generate a pull request for the upstream developer. That’s really handy because many times a user will find a problem and generate … Continue reading →

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Karl Voit on Key Bindings and File Hierarchy

Posted on 2018-07-24 by jcs

Karl Voit has a couple of nice posts in which he discusses his key binding and file hierarchy strategies. If you’re like me, these things develop in an organic—a nice way of saying haphazard—way. They just evolve over time without … Continue reading →

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Apple’s New Maps

Posted on 2018-07-04 by jcs

Way back in 2012, I wrote about Apple venturing into maps and the problems they were having. As I said at the time, getting good map data is extraordinarily hard—Google at the time had over 7,000 people working on their … Continue reading →

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How The Teletype Works

Posted on 2018-06-18 by jcs

If you’re like me and enjoy seeing how the mechanical marvels—like the Mergenthaler Linotype typesetter—that were used before computers took over everything worked, you many enjoy this film on how the teletype operates. It’s from 1940 and considers the mechanics … Continue reading →

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JWZ on Microsoft Acquiring GitHub

Posted on 2018-06-07 by jcs

There’s been a lot of chatter among the developer class about Microsoft acquiring GitHub. Most of it involves how and where to migrate repositories currently residing on GitHub. Jamie Zawinski, for one, has no sympathy for developers who are suddenly … Continue reading →

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Tech Addiction is Not Real

Posted on 2018-06-06 by jcs

I’ve written a couple of times about the silliness that goes by the name of “tech addiction.” It’s the notion that we—and especially our children—misuse our technology and have become addicted to it. Anyone with a modicum of common sense … Continue reading →

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Recursion

Posted on 2018-06-01 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has an interesting post on recursion. The question at hand is whether it makes sense to teach recursion to beginning programming students. Zamansky was a high school CS teacher for many years and now he’s involved—at least in … Continue reading →

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Introduction to Using Git

Posted on 2018-05-20 by jcs

If you’re in the intersection of Emacs and Git users, you are almost certainly using Magit and probably don’t think about version control very much: it just works. But suppose your version control experience is restricted to CVS, SVN, or … Continue reading →

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Batch Editing with ed

Posted on 2018-05-13 by jcs

I’ve written before about the ed editor and the faithful who still use it today. A tweet by Mike Zamansky lead me to this Julia Evans post on batch editing files with ed. Evans has a typical editing problem: she … Continue reading →

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