Boutique modes

Posted on Wed 05 March 2014 in geek • Tagged with emacs, linaro

I've recently started a new job at Linaro which has been keeping me very busy. My role combines the low-level fun of Dynamic Binary Translation that I so enjoyed at Transitive and the fact Linaro is a fully Open Source company. I work directly on the upstream projects (in this …


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Edit with Emacs v1.13 now available

Posted on Fri 08 November 2013 in geek • Tagged with chrome, chromeos, chromium, edit with emacs, emacs

I've just pushed the latest version of Edit with Emacs to the Chrome App Store. Hopefully most people are already tracking the latest edit-server.el via MELPA but this does introduce a few minor fixes to the extension itself. A new piece of functionality is the ability to trigger bringing …


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Travelling with the truffler

Posted on Wed 24 April 2013 in general • Tagged with parenting, ursula

We're are about halfway through our family holiday to the remote ends of the earth. It has been the first time we've taken Ursula on a plane so we thought we'd make it a big journey while we are at it.

To her credit she was mostly fine with the …


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On the death of Google Reader

Posted on Thu 14 March 2013 in geek • Tagged with emacs, floss, google, hosting, rss

You can probably tell the sort of on-line company I keep from the deluge of noise on the social networks regarding Google's decision to shut down Reader. However we shouldn't be that surprised. In fact some companies that source content from Reader have anticipated the need to collect content themselves …


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The future is inching its way onto our set-top boxes

Posted on Mon 11 February 2013 in geek • Tagged with content, iplayer, netflix, tv

I have from time to time lamented the tardiness of media producers in getting content in-front of my eyeballs. It's not a case of being tight with money, although giving Murdoch £30/month for a glut of programming I'll never watch is *too much* for me. I'll happily pay for …


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