Buttercup 1.1 Released

I just released version 1.1 of Buttercup, the Behavior-Driven Emacs Lisp Testing framework.

Buttercup is a behavior-driven development framework for testing Emacs Lisp code. It is heavily inspired by Jasmine.

• Homepage and documentation

Buttercup 1.0 released

I just released version 1.0 of Buttercup, the Behavior-Driven Emacs Lisp Testing framework.

Buttercup is a behavior-driven development framework for testing Emacs Lisp code. It is heavily inspired by Jasmine.

• Homepage

Installation and Use

Buttercup is available from Marmalade and MELPA Stable.

Example test suite:

(describe "A suite"
  (it "contains a spec with an expectation"
    (expect t :to-be t)))

See the package homepage above for a full description of the syntax for test suites and specs.

If placed in a file named like my-test.el, this command executed in the same directory will run the suite:

  emacs -batch -l buttercup.el -f buttercup-run-discover

Circe 1.6 released

We just released version 1.6 of Circe, a Client for IRC in Emacs.

• Homepage

The package is available from github, Marmalade, MELPA stable and MELPA unstable, even though the latter will track further development changes, so use at your own risk.

Elpy 1.7.0 released

I just released version 1.7.0 of Elpy, the Emacs Python Development Environment. This is a feature release.

Elpy is an Emacs package to bring powerful Python editing to Emacs. It combines a number of other packages, both written in Emacs Lisp as well as Python.

• Homepage
• Manual
• Features
• Installation

Quick Installation

Evaluate this:

(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("elpy" .
               "http://jorgenschaefer.github.io/packages/"))

Then run M-x package-install RET elpy RET.

Finally, run the following (and add them to your .emacs):

(package-initialize)
(elpy-enable)

Changes in 1.7.0

The Low-Fad Diet

I am not sure if there is any other single topic where you can find so much confusing, contradicting, and absolutely misleading information as on diets and nutrition. Regardless of what, how or when you like to eat, you can find someone who demonizes that as the root cause for any failing diet, and for pretty much any major (or minor) food component, you can find someone who will decry it as the sole cause of all that is bad in the world.

This is weird, as the science, while certainly not settled and with many fields of research still open, is actually quite solid on the general ideas.

I used to weigh just shy of 127 kg. I have lost over 40 kg since then. Without following any fad diet. And I was enjoying myself the whole time. What follows are ideas I have collected over the years, based on reading medical studies and what I have experimented with myself.

Elpy 1.6.0 released

I just released version 1.6.0 of Elpy, the Emacs Python Development Environment. This is a feature release.

Elpy is an Emacs package to bring powerful Python editing to Emacs. It combines a number of other packages, both written in Emacs Lisp as well as Python.

• Homepage
• Manual
• Features
• Installation

Quick Installation

Evaluate this:

(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("elpy" .
               "http://jorgenschaefer.github.io/packages/"))

Then run M-x package-install RET elpy RET.

Finally, run the following (and add them to your .emacs):

(package-initialize)
(elpy-enable)

Changes in 1.6.0

The Paradox of Freedom of Speech

Freedom of speech needs to be restricted to protect freedom of speech.

This apparent paradoxical statement is well-founded in philosophy, but it is the cause of much confusion in online debates. Quite regularly, any kind of moderation activity in comment sections or other discussion spaces is likened to censorship, with the argument that the basic human right of freedom of speech needs to be protected.

While it is possible to silence all dissent using moderation, most of the time when freedom of speech is invoked, it is done in the misguided assumption that ultimate freedom is the goal.

It can not be.