Month: February 2019

  • Exercising software freedom on Firefox

    I’m a little unusual. I use Emacs. That alone is unusual. But I get the impression that even amongst Emacs users, I’m in the minority in another way: I use the default keybindings. I love them. A lot of new Emacs users seem to insist on jamming vim keys into Emacs, but not me. These…

  • To Translate Is To Lie, So Weave A Good Yarn

    I’m not a professional translator, but I know what I like in fiction. When I was a Mexican kid in the 1980s we used to get old re-runs of the Flintstones in Spanish. Of course, my English wasn’t very good when I was very young, and I didn’t know them as “the Flintstones at all.”…