Happy Software Freedom day! In celebration of it, I’ll list the top 5 free software programs I use. – GNU Emacs Very powerful text editor. I do most of my tasks in it, specially using and developing Identica-mode. I recommend it a lot for other tasks other than programming in any language, like organizing your […]
I just wanted to post a few lines about Debian today since its the 17th anniversary of the project. I haven’t been a long time Debian user. I started using GNU/Linux as an experimental project back when RedHat was on version 5. Then one day, I purchased my first distribution. Yes, I paid for it […]
So after having planned some podcast projects, I finally started one of them. Its a show in spanish that talks about copyright, software, tech and legal news regarding our freedom. Its been a very interesting project. We talk mostly about Mexican laws and events that affect our freedom through copyright or any tech or data […]
Many people are typically afraid of the terminal. Yes, it might look scary for some, retro for others, but for the practical busy programmer, the terminal is the best tool you can have. Lately for my day job, I’ve been required to work with lots of static web pages, as I’ve mentioned on several of […]
I’m very happy to announce the release 1.0 of the Emacs identica-mode microblogging client. Its been a while since the last release, and its been for a good reason! The main improvements are: – HTTP backend rewrite The backend that makes the HTTP connections has been completely rewritten to use url.el mode instead of the […]
Lately I’ve been working with a lot of static HTML files with lots of repeating text structures. In the past I’ve talked about editing multiple files with Emacs. This approach works very well when the number of multiple files and text matches in each file is manageable or you need to make sure every match […]