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-title: "Polaroids"
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+title: "Making_an_online_color_vectorscope"
+draft: false
+date: 2024-09-11T23:23:05-05:00
+blog: false
+tags: ["programming"]
+featured_image: ""
+description: ""
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+---
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+title: "Apple's constant nannying does more harm than good"
+draft: false
+date: 2024-09-11T23:19:19-05:00
+blog: false
+tags: ["computer"]
+featured_image: ""
+description: ""
+toc: false
+---
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+title: "The best Emacs app icon"
+draft: false
+date: 2024-09-03T23:50:59-05:00
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+tags: ["programming", "emacs"]
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+description: "my beloved wildebeest"
+toc: false
+---
+
+If you were ever interested in installing Emacs on macOS, you technically have three up-to-date choices[^1] ("distributions" in a very loose term) to choose from:
+
+1. the regular Emacs install from `brew install emacs`, which is the one that the GNU foundation recommends you to install
+2. [`emacs-plus`](https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus), which has additional features from "vanilla" macOS emacs 
+3. [`emacs-mac`](https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport/), which adds some features that make Emacs behave more like a native app
+
+If you choose to install either of the last 2, you get the choice to 
+
+
+[^1]: I'm not including Aquamacs or Emacs for OSX