<p>Another metablogging post, but this may come in handy for people who like to produce blog posts in bulk and schedule them for publication in WordPress at a later date.</p>

<p>I’ve recently blogged about <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2015/08/01/adding-tls-support-to-emacs-24-5-on-windows/">adding TLS support to Emacs 24.5 on Windows</a> and <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2015/08/04/improve-git-performance-on-windows-without-patching-your-git-install/">improving git performance on Windows by installing an alternative git command line client</a>. The reason I ended up investigating how to add SSL and TLS support to Emacs is that when…

<p>Looks like <a href="http://global.samsungtomorrow.com/samsung-announces-an-android-security-update-process-to-ensure-timely-protection-from-security-vulnerabilities/">Samsung</a> and <a href="http://officialandroid.blogspot.de/2015/08/an-update-to-nexus-devices.html">Google</a> recognise that much like any other computing device, the smartphone in your pocket needs very regular security updates.</p>

<p>I’ve blogged about <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2014/03/12/improving-the-performance-of-git-for-windows/">improving the performance of Git on Windows</a> in the past and rightly labelled the suggested solution as a bad hack because it requires you to manually replace binaries that are part of the installation. For people who tend to use DVCSs from the command line, manually replacing binaries is unlikely to be a big deal but it’s clunky and should really be a wakeup…

<p>The Windows build of Emacs 24.5 doesn’t ship with SSL and TLS support out of the box. Normally that’s not that much of a problem until you are trying to access marmalade-repo or have <a href="https://github.com/punchagan/org2blog">org2blog</a> talk to your own blog via SSL/TLS.</p>