The System That Inspired All Of Us Through Emacs

They say that Emacs was inspired by real LISP machines from Symbolics and more. Here are two of those Symbolics machines for sale on eBay:

A Mac with a LISP machine inside of it is pretty cool.

Easily Allowing and Forbidding Distractions on OS X macOS

Facebook and Instagram are better than television and like any good thing it is nice to have a break. Real televisions have an on/off switch but computers don’t really. Technical folks: here is one way to make it easy to give your OS X macOS box an on/off switch for your social sites:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# -*- mode: sh; -*-
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
    sudo cp /etc/hosts.distractions /etc/hosts
    printf "...forbidding distractions.\n"
else
    sudo cp /etc/hosts.org /etc/hosts
    printf "...allowing distractions.\n"
fi

A Hydra For Country Business Marks

(defhydra help/trademark (:color blue :hint nil)
  "
American _R_egistered Trademark
American _U_nregistered Trademark
American _S_ervice Mark
_J_apanese Industrial Standard
_K_orean Standard
"
  ("R" (lambda () (interactive) (insert "®")))
  ("U" (lambda () (interactive) (insert "™")))
  ("S" (lambda () (interactive) (insert "℠")))
  ("J" (lambda () (interactive) (insert "〄")))
  ("K" (lambda () (interactive) (insert "㉿"))))