TLS issues with Emacs and Git for Windows
I’ve recently blogged about adding TLS support to Emacs 24.5 on Windows and improving git performance on Windows by installing an alternative git command line client. The reason I ended up...
View ArticleScheduling WordPress posts with org2blog
Another metablogging post, but this may come in handy for people who like to produce blog posts in bulk and schedule them for publication in WordPress at a later date. In my case, my ability to find...
View ArticleWhy I’m suspicious of the car insurance dongles
Some security researchers from UCSD showed a proof of concept exploit via one of the dongles that appears to be also used by car insurance companies to monitor your driving “to give you discounts for...
View ArticleAn elegant way to extract keys from a C++ map
I’ve been doing a reasonable amount of Clojure development recently and like a lot of other Lisp dialect have marveled at the ease of separately pulling out the keys and values from a map. This is a...
View ArticleGood analysis on the Android security ecosystem
I recently blogged about Google and Samsung starting to offer regular security patches for their Android devices. Over on ars technica, Ron Amadeo has an interesting article describing why the current...
View ArticleBuilding Emacs on OS X using homebrew
I’ve recently switched to using homebrew as my source for Emacs on OS X after seeing this blog post by Philip Ingram. It’s a simple way to install a current Emacs once or twice a year. I don’t use...
View ArticleEmbedding YouTube vidoes via org-mode
Artur Malabarba over on Endless Parentheses has a short post about embedding a YouTube video directly from org-mode. I haven’t tried using it in org2blog yet, but I’m hoping/expecting that it’ll work...
View ArticleRotate nginx logs on FreeBSD with newsyslog
I’ve moved from using Apache as a web server to nginx for various projects. The machines I’m running these projects on are a somewhat resource constrained and nginx deals with low resource machines...
View ArticleDon’t make me yawn with your job ad
As a lot of people keep pointing out over and over again, a job ad is an ad. Its often forgotten purpose is to get someone competent excited enough about your company and the job opening you’re trying...
View ArticleUsing the Hack 2.0 font in Emacs on OS X
The Hack 2.0 font got a lot of attention recently as a font specifically designed for use with source code. So of course I had to try it out in Emacs. I decided to install the font on my Mac, so I...
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