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2016-06-20

• 19:52 UTC (new) (history) 2016-06-20 Easy Javascript logging . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I’ve been doing some JavaScript coding recently. Before you run off screaming, let me tell you that JavaScript is not that bad. Yes, it has C-like, unlispy syntax, but at its heart it is quite a nice language. Today, though, I didn’t want to write about JS in general, but about one small detail. While debugging JavaScript code, it is often useful to sprinkle console.log statements in your code. Also, if you want to check the value of some more complicated variable, you need to JSON.stringify it first. Of course, writing repetitive pieces of code is not what an Emacs user would like to do, so I hacked this:

2016-06-13

• 20:14 UTC (new) (history) 2016-06-13 Displaying pdfs on the right . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago I decided that I’ll give PDF tools a shot. Wow. Just wow. Never going back to Evince. (Well, almost never – Evince does have one or two options not present in PDF Tools, but I hardly ever use them). If you are an Emacs user on GNU+Linux, I strongly advice you to try PDF Tools out. Especially if you do a lot of LaTeX work in AUCTeX (like I do) and/or if you need to read or create PDF annotations (highlighting and/or notes) – it’s really great. (I did once experience some problems with said annotations, though.) I was a bit afraid about the efficiency – but man, it’s really fast! A great piece of work indeed. I have a few problems with it, though.

2016-06-08

• 12:24 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2016-05-30 Jeżycjada mistyczna – wprowadzenie . . . . ynka – 1. Borejkowie to straszne snoby! Przekreślanie człowieka za to, że nie zna łacińskich sentencji, podczas gdy człowiek ten jest znacznie lepiej niż . . .

2016-06-06

• 19:24 UTC (new) (history) 2016-06-06 Org clocking and resolving idle time . . . . Marcin Borkowski – This post is basically a reminder for myself, though some of you might find it useful. I use the Org-mode clocking feature a lot. (Especially now that I have it synchronized with Beeminder.) While I’m not a hardcore QS fanatic, I do see their point that collecting objective, measurable data about oneself can give very valuable insights. (For instance, I learned that if you have an 8-hour-per-day job, and you spend 6 hours actually working, then you are insanely efficient – time efficiency of 50% percent is normal according to my experience. Sometimes it happens, though, that I forget to clock out. In such a case, org-clock-idle-time (set to 5 minutes) comes to my rescue.

2016-05-30

• 06:19 UTC (new) (history) 2016-05-30 Jeżycjada mistyczna – wprowadzenie . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Od ponad dziesięciu lat jestem wiernym fanem pisarstwa pani Musierowicz. Być może jest to dziwne, że facet w średnim wieku czyta sobie powieści dla nastolatek; być może nawet rodzi to określone podejrzenia. Nie zamierzam się jednak z tego tłumaczyć, tym bardziej, że czytując powieści pani M. znajduję się w doborowym, i to nie tylko damskim towarzystwie. Za to dla ewentualnych wątpiących mam kilka argumentów, które być może skłonią kogoś do sięgnięcia po Jeżycjadę.

2016-05-23

• 12:33 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2016-05-23 Literal values and destructive functions . . . . erez – Just to clarify, the warning is not about not using, it's about using. The advice is not to use them, have I understood correctly?
• 05:02 UTC (new) (history) 2016-05-23 Literal values and destructive functions . . . . Marcin Borkowski – In Lisp literature you can often find a warning about not using destructive functions (like sort or nconc) on values coming from literals. This is a good advice, and you should follow it. Here’s a short stab at a (partial) explanation (note that all examples are in Emacs Lisp).

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