End! User!

(December 11, 2014)

The latest Nadja album, from the latest mega-package from Norman Records.

One Touch Maintainin’

(December 9, 2014)

Emacs gets a lot of very nice, but quite simple patches that take quite a lot of keystrokes to process.  It’s hard on the fingers, and you always forget various bits. So I wondered how simple it could be, and hacked up this workflow tonight. You start in the debbugs-gnu buffer, as always, narrowed down … Continue reading One Touch Maintainin’

The Best Albums of 2014

(December 7, 2014)

It’s that time of year, and Emacs has decreed (based on how many times I played each album) what the best ones are. I’ve played a lot of old, old music this year, so the recent purchases haven’t gotten that much play… But these are the 15 bestest albums released in 2014. Neneh Cherry Blank … Continue reading The Best Albums of 2014

My New Home Decorating Blog

(December 6, 2014)

I’ve got a lot of thingamabobs that need charging now and then. But rooting out the adapters and finding a vacant wall socket is boring, so I thought I’d make a permanent charging station. Finding a power strip that you can plug in all those wall warts is a bit of a challenge, because the … Continue reading My New Home Decorating Blog

Jazzember

(December 6, 2014)

Jazzember

(December 3, 2014)

The Emacs Network Security Manager

(December 1, 2014)

Emacs 25 will have a network security manager. You know — the thing that nags you when you visit https pages with invalid certificates and annoys all y’all so much. Yay. Designing a thing like that is a minefield. On one hand, you have professional security professionals who seem to insist that the sky is … Continue reading The Emacs Network Security Manager