Tag Archives: RMF

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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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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