Tag Archives: RMF

🥩 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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🥩 Red Meat Friday: That’s Not Vim…

Posted on 2024-04-12 by jcs

Just a quickie today but it’s really, really red meat. If you’re an Emacs partisan, it will give you a reason to chuckle all day. If you worship at the Church of Vim, you’ll be less amused. As I’ve said … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Multiple Editors

Posted on 2024-03-29 by jcs

Today’s topic is using multiple editors. There’s no reason this should be a red meat topic but it is. People on both sides of the issue think those on the other side are weird. I’ve written about this before and … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Avoid The Mouse

Posted on 2024-03-15 by jcs

_nambiar has a short video on how painful it is to watch people use other editors and reach for the mouse every time they want to do some navigation or select text. He’s an Emacs user but his message will … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Is Emacs Dying?

Posted on 2024-02-23 by jcs

Is Emacs dying? Lordy, I get so tired of that trope. Don’t like Emacs? I’m fine with that. Sorry you’re missing out, but fine. What I’m not fine with is people who don’t like Emacs and probably have never used … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Reaching New Heights In Illegibility

Posted on 2024-02-09 by jcs

The other night I was enjoying a sound, dreamless sleep when at 3 AM there was pounding on my bedroom door and the minions started jumping up and down on my bed. “Mrrflx. Wha? Wha’s happening?” It turns out the … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Transparent Windows: Just Say No

Posted on 2024-02-02 by jcs

As you all know, the Minions are in a never ending death match with dark Emacs themes. To them, there is no worse UI choice. I submit, though, that they haven’t considered all the possibilities and that there are, in … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Chrome Atrocities

Posted on 2023-12-08 by jcs

Metanote: I wasn’t sure if this post really merited being designated a Red Meat Friday item but it is polemical and will doubtless anger some people so I guess it qualifies. As most of you know, we here at Irreal … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: You Don’t Need A Terminal Emulator

Posted on 2023-11-03 by jcs

Andrey Listopadov has an interesting post that advances the notion that you don’t need a terminal emulator. To developers, that’s already an idea worthy of being included as a Red Meat Friday offering but the real reason this is a … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: A Case For Journalists

Posted on 2023-09-29 by jcs

In a previous Red Meat Friday post, Irreal pondered whether politicians or journalists are the least respectable profession. It’s still an open question and while most people would probably declare politicians the winners, John Gruber has a post that provides … Continue reading →

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