Rudimentary Parsing with Idiomatic POSIX Shell
POSIX shell idiomsYou sit down before your obnoxiously clacky mechanical keyboard and bang out the familiar #!/bin/sh with that precious sense of optimism like writing the first words in a new...
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Vanilla Firefox Keyboard Mastery
All software packages mentioned in this article are free as in freedom. There is no need to be using proprietary browsers these days. Is it worth the time?Last weekend I carved out half an hour to...
View ArticleDeclarative Package Configuration In 5 Lines of Emacs Lisp
GNU Emacs is a real phenomenon of computing, not least thanks to the wealth of free/libre packages available.Thing is, most of these packages are more like software libraries than programmes, having...
View ArticleHow to Pronounce Any English Word
We’ve all been there. You’re reading something, maybe out loud, maybe even in front of an audience, and you’re met with some word whose spelling is so irregular and confusing as to incite fear in the...
View ArticleEmacs Keeps Surprising Me
Emacs keeps surprising me. Though I've been using it regularly for about two years now, I am still discovering features and nuances that have been right under my nose since day one.I'm not talking...
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