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2020-02-02

• 08:38 UTC (new) (history) 2020-02-02 Encrypted Org-mode journal . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I use the Org-mode capturing feature to write a daily journal, where I record various important events in the case I’m going to need the information about them. Some time ago it occured to me that encrypting that journal could be a good idea, so I decided to explore that possibility.

2020-01-27

• 22:17 UTC (new) (history) 2020-01-27 Splitting a past commit in two, and a bonus regex trick . . . . Marcin Borkowski – More than a year ago I described a very simple Git rebase workflow, where all we were interested in was just fixing some mistakes in a past commit. Let us now go a little bit deeper. One thing I had always trouble with was splitting a commit in two (or more). While there are many tutorials about this on the internet, I wrote my own, even though it turned out that it is not better than the other ones. Go figure. (One advantage is that I have it on my website, so that I won’t need to do much searching in case I need it.)

2020-01-19

• 17:51 UTC (new) (history) 2020-01-19 tldr . . . . Marcin Borkowski – For today, I only have a short tip. Some time ago, I discovered this little gem called tldr. This project aims at creating an example-based alternative to man pages. It comprises several hundred short pages containing a short, one-line introduction to the command explained and a bunch of examples.

2020-01-13

• 20:03 UTC (new) (history) 2020-01-13 Automatic testing during rebasing . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I am already accustomed to hidden gems in Git. Still, finding one is always nice. Recently, I was reading through git-rebase manpage, and two things drew my attention.

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