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2022-12-12

• 10:39 UTC (new) (history) 2022-12-12 Debugging chained operations in Lodash . . . . mbork – I use Lodash in some of my projects. One of the nice features of Lodash is the chaining concept. If you have an object (often an array) which you want to transform usign a series of operations like map, filter etc. Now this is great – if it works. But what if it doesn’t and the result is completely unexpected? It would be nice if you were able to see the intermediate results of the chained operations without, so to speak, breaking the chain… It turns out you can!

2022-12-11

• 19:51 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2022-12-05 A simple function to create abbreviations . . . . mbork – Well, you're right – but AFAIK the only widely used "abbreviations" are l10n, i18n and a11y.

2022-12-05

• 19:33 UTC (new) (history) 2022-12-05 A simple function to create abbreviations . . . . mbork – A few days ago I wanted to write to a colleague about accessibility – or, as it is often called, a11y. As you probably know, the 11 comes from the fact that there are 11 letter between “a” and “y” in the word “accessibility”. Of course, I didn’t want to count the letters manually – I just marked the word, pressed M-= (count-words-region) and subtracted 2 from the result. Then it occurred to me that it is Emacs who should be doing things like that, not me.

2022-11-28

• 17:05 UTC (new) (history) 2022-11-26 Extracting Youtube subtitles in Emacs . . . . mbork – A few days ago I read about an amazing package. Like the OP, I very much dislike watching videos with lectures – text is much, much better way to communicate. (In fact, when I was a student, I preferred to skip lectures and learn from my colleagues’ notes instead. It was much more efficient.) I decided that I really need to try out youtube-sub-extractor.el. It turned out that it’s very easy to do so.

2022-11-19

• 19:55 UTC (new) (history) 2022-11-19 Streamlining my workflow with Magit and BitBucket . . . . mbork – We use BitBucket at our company, which is some source of frustration for us. One of the issues we have with BitBucket is that it seems to lack a decent CLI tool. This means that in order to e.g. create a pull request, you go to the website, click a few times and only then confirm that a PR is really what you want. Well, after some time I learned that it’s not that bad. When you git push your changes, Git (on the command line) responds with the URL you need to go to create a pull request out of the branch you just pushed. (This is most probably achieved via post-receive or some other Git hook.) Nice. Well, of course I don’t use Git from the command line – I use Magit. So naturally I wanted Emacs to extract that information for me and open the URL in the browser. It turns out that it was easier than I thought.

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