Software

Microsoft earned itself the rather descriptive name ‘Microslop’ in recent months, on account of having infested virtually all its products with ‘AI’/Co-Pilot stuff that nobody asked for and few want. It’s especially insidious and invasive enough in Windows 11 that one shouldn’t expect any privacy when using it. Visual Studio Code was a decent editor that I’d been using since Atom got deprecated. Now it’s primarily an ‘open source AI code editor’, its official Web site declares.

Emacs is very often mentioned in the context of something called ‘Org-Mode’, which is some kind of journal and ‘personal knowledge management’ solution - it’s not ideal for most use cases, but apparently it’s popular. I’m not sure what Emacs Org-Mode does that other editors can’t do, but I’m giving it a try anyway. First thing is we need to add org-mode to Emacs, and this is possible using the integrated package manager.