Tag Archives: RMF

Red Meat Friday: VS Code As A Venus Flytrap

Posted on 2022-09-30 by jcs

The hackers and programmers that I grew up with knew all about Microsoft and realized that they were relentlessly predatory. Lately Microsoft has been trying to project a kinder, gentler image but developers from my cohort who have not yet … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Give Nothing, Expect Nothing

Posted on 2022-09-02 by jcs

Joe Brockmeier over at Dissociated Press makes a point about free software that may make some folks uncomfortable but that I’ve long felt is true: Give nothing, expect nothing. The TL;DR is that if you are using a free service … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Knuth versus McIlroy

Posted on 2022-08-26 by jcs

One of our cherished stories, at least of one of my cherished stories, is the account of Don Knuth and Doug McIlroy solving the same problem. The problem was Given a text file and integer k, print the k most … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Emacs Sucks

Posted on 2022-08-12 by jcs

As you can tell from the title, this is the rawest of red meat. The title comes from a post on reddit by BlackberryPerfect938 entitled Why Emacs Sucks. On the one hand, what else is new? Plenty of people try … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: PHP Is The Right Choice

Posted on 2022-08-05 by jcs

One thing you have to say for Daniel Abernathy is that he’s not afraid of the heavy lift. He’s got a post that presses the claim that PHP Is the Right Choice in 2022 and Beyond. It’s hard to find … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Seek Help

Posted on 2022-07-22 by jcs

Here’s a stunning example of retro abuse. I get that it’s fun—for some people—to revisit old tech but if this looks good to you, seek help. I’m old enough to have worked with those terminals—both the green and amber versions—and … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Notion

Posted on 2022-06-24 by jcs

Romain Slootmaekers has his own take on the Notion app: @notionhq is an org mode for the #emacs challenged. There I said it. — Romain Slootmaekers (@toolslive666) June 17, 2022 To be fair, Notion is a pretty nice app but … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: This Seems About Right

Posted on 2022-06-17 by jcs

It appears Irreal’s disdain for journalists and politicians is not sui generis: Who do you trust the most? — Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) June 15, 2022

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Red Meat Friday: Who’s Next?

Posted on 2022-06-10 by jcs

As most of you have probably heard by now, the Atom editor is being discontinued in December. That’s sad, of course, especially for Atom users but there are some lessons to be drawn. Eric Fraga has the TL;DR: This is … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Duck Duck Go and Microsoft

Posted on 2022-06-03 by jcs

There’s been a huge number of hot takes—mostly on twitter, of course, but elsewhere as well—about Duck Duck Go (DDG) not blocking Microsoft tracking scripts. The hot takes all treat the matter as a betrayal of DDG’s users and express … Continue reading →

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