Marcin Borkowski: Recent Changes

Updates since 2019-05-18 04:43 UTC up to 2019-06-17 04:43 UTC

2019-06-15

18:21 UTC (new) (history) 2019-06-15 Debugging Node.js programs in a Vagrant virtual machine . . . . Marcin Borkowski – One of the very nice things in a programmer’s toolbox is a debugger. Coming from Emacs, I am accustommed to Edebug, which allows to step through the code, install breakpoints (conditional ones as well as unconditional ones), watch variables etc. Programming in JavaScript is (or at least should be) no different. Indeed, both Firefox and Chromium have a debugger in their DevTools (although Chromium’s one seems a tad more confusing). This is all good when I’m debugging front-end code, but I often work on some backend code in Node.js. Fortunately, it can be debugged, too.

2019-06-09

16:09 UTC (new) (history) 2019-06-09 Defining custom TikZ fill patterns . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago I had a need to define my own filling pattern in TikZ. It turned out to be quite simple, although I had to learn a few things. While the manual (as usual) does a pretty good job at teaching that, I felt that the explanation was a bit too short in one place, and hence this blog post.

2019-06-03

18:50 UTC (new) (history) 2019-06-03 Undoing without redoing . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Emacs has a somewhat atypical undo feature – if you undo some changes (possibly more than once), and then break the sequence of undo commands (for example, by moving the point), any subsequent undo will, well, undo the previous undo – in other words, Emacs’ undo doubles as redo.
18:49 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2019-05-27 Programmatically checking for uncommitted changes . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Wow, thanks for all these comments! As for the if-then-else stuff, I obviously have other things inside - {{{exit 0}}} and {{{exit 1}}} were just . . .

2019-05-27

06:04 UTC (new) (history) 2019-05-27 Programmatically checking for uncommitted changes . . . . Marcin Borkowski – One problem that I encounter over and over again is checking if a Git repository is “clean”, i.e., if it doesn’t contain any uncommitted changes. This post serves as an easy way to remind myself how to accomplish that.

2019-05-24

2019-05-20

16:37 UTC (new) (history) 2019-05-20 Converting BibTeX files to AMSrefs . . . . Marcin Borkowski – It’s been a long time since I’ve written anything TeX-related here. But I’m still working with LaTeX (though less often than I used to), and here is a problem I encountered a few days ago – and a solution. I received a file with BibTeX-encoded bibliography. Obviously, I wanted to convert it to AMSrefs. Being lazy, I started to search for an automated solution – and I was not disappointed at all! It turns out that AMSrefs itself has a feature I needed.