Tag Archives: RMF

Red Meat Friday: Managers and Technical Expertise

Posted on 2022-05-20 by jcs

Some people like to pretend that Elon Musk is naive and not very bright. You can love him or hate him but that characterization is just silly. Besides being the richest man in the world (all of which he earned) … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Nannies

Posted on 2022-05-13 by jcs

I promised that this week’s Red Meat Friday would serve as a sort of balance to last week’s RMF post making fun of IDE users. It was supposed to be about an Emacs reddit post that asked Is emacs only … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Real Software Is Not Written with IDEs

Posted on 2022-05-06 by jcs

Last week’s Red Meat Friday was essentially anodyne so here’s something to get (certain) people’s juices flowing: real software is written in #vim, #nano, or #emacs. if you still use an ide (especially for interpreter languages), go back to high … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Coffee Confidential

Posted on 2022-04-29 by jcs

This episode of Red Meat Friday isn’t really red meat so much as an account of a skirmish between two bête noires of yore. The two combatants were Microsoft and IBM. Not very long ago they were the two giants … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Internet Laws

Posted on 2022-03-18 by jcs

Some of you may argue that today’s offering isn’t really Red Meat but since almost everybody will be offended by something in this list of Internet Laws, the Minions have ruled that it qualifies. You’ve probably seen some of these—Murphy’s … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Forget Linux, Just Use Emacs

Posted on 2022-03-04 by jcs

An enduring trope in the Emacs community is the notion that Emacs isn’t really an editor, it’s an operating system. We always say we’re joking but sometimes it’s hard to tell. The idea is not completely unfounded. After all, there’s … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Taking Up Space With Metadata

Posted on 2022-02-25 by jcs

Note: For some reason WordPress refused to embed Fraga’s tweet so I had to link to the tweet instead. As you all know by now, I prefer a minimalist approach to my editor screen layout. I want as much screen … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Résumé Gaps

Posted on 2022-02-11 by jcs

We’ve all been there. If not with TikZ then some other application: interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV me: yeah I was trying to make a complicated figure in TikZ and lost track of time and— interviewer: … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Emacs Discoverability

Posted on 2022-01-28 by jcs

Here’s nice coda to yesterday’s post on Mickey’s essay on bad Emacs advice. As with all great humor, this is hilarious precisely because of the truth it’s based on.

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Red Meat Friday: SICP in JavaScript

Posted on 2022-01-21 by jcs

Remember a couple of weeks ago when I declared No. Just no? Well, here’s another, even more emphatic, refusal to accept the apocalypse. No. Just HELL no! The thing about SICP is how simple and beautiful the code is and … Continue reading →

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