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Most Irreal readers know that we here at Irreal have a strict rule against dealing with politics.

Regular readers know that the Irreal bunker is a resident of the Apple Exosphere but we don’t consider ourselves fanbois.

… I’ve lost track.

Alex Pliutau over at Package Main has some sage advice about Git usage that hadn’t occurred to me.

As many of you know, my idea of a theme is to set the background to “oldlace” and the cursor to red.

James Cherti has another excellent post, this time on optimizing Emacs startup with use-package.

Apologies to my European friends but the EU—or rather its regulators—is becoming tiresome.

Evan Hahn has an amusing post about the Vim UserGettingBored autocmd.

As the result of a long standing discussion on the Emacs devel list, Emacs 31 comes with what amounts to a starter kit called newcomers-presets1.

I do a lot of writing, almost all of it in Emacs so I’m always happy to see how other people use our editor of choice for writing.