Marcin Borkowski: Recent Changes

Updates since 2016-07-20 23:53 UTC up to 2016-08-19 23:53 UTC

2016-08-18

05:30 UTC (new) (history) Comments on 2016-08-15 JavaScript callbacks . . . . Jeski – Hi, very nice article. I'd like to add something I found useful to understand how this "waiting" aka "event loop" works in the browser: . . .

2016-08-15

08:09 UTC (new) (history) 2016-08-15 JavaScript callbacks . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Note: this is an introductory article on JavaScript callbacks. There will be a bit more advanced follow-up – an introduction to promises.

2016-08-08

20:27 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2016-07-18 Ledger – virtual postings aka envelopes . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Well, they don't: as I mentioned, my usage of Ledger is very rudimentary, and this post is basically a tutorial I'm writing for myself; I even don't . . .
16:18 UTC (new) (history) 2016-08-08 Two books on personal finance . . . . Marcin Borkowski – As I mentioned some time ago, I have been using Ledger for personal (or rather home) accounting. In particular, this means that I’m quite interested in the subject of personal finance. Today I’m going to write about two books on this topic I find worth reading.
16:03 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2016-06-20 Easy Javascript logging . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Hi, thanks for your comments! # Elisp has had lexical bindings and closures for some time! Shameless plug: [[2016-05-17 Emacs Lisp closures . . .

2016-08-01

20:03 UTC (new) (history) 2016-08-01 Highly sophisticated engineering . . . . Marcin Borkowski – In one of my Emacs libraries, in which I send HTTP requests to a website, I have something like this: (if (string-match "\\?" request) "&" "?") ; this is hackish (the purpose is clear if you know how the URIs are structured). As the comment says, I actually considered this rather a duct-tape approach… …until I found this gem in request.el:

2016-07-25

20:36 UTC (new) (history) 2016-07-25 Making directories on the fly . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Today, a friend asked me how to create a directory – or a hierarchy of them – while finding a file in a nonexistent directory. I found some clues on the ‘net, but the best one used the old advice mechanism. So I decided to do it myself, based on the hints found. It turned out to be simpler than I thought; it’s made even easier by the fact that Elisp’s make-directory function acts basically like mkdir -p when given non-nil second (optional) argument.