Recent Changes

2023-07-08

• 13:20 UTC (new) (history) 2023-07-08 Finding a common prefix of a set of strings . . . . mbork – Some time ago I needed a very specific thing. Given two strings, I wanted to find their longest common (initial) substring. For example, given abc and abd, I wanted ab. I thought that Emacs Lisp must have something like this already, and I wasn’t wrong. It turns out there are even two functions which can do that!

2023-07-03

• 05:24 UTC (new) (history) 2023-07-03 From mp3s to podcasts . . . . mbork – Many years ago I used to listen to podcasts a lot. I had my two favorite ones, and they provided me with more than 90 minutes of interesting material to listen every week (and that is not counting several hundred archive episodes!). Recently, I decided to start listening again to interesting people while I commute. This time, though, I want to listen to webinars instead, and I have them in the form of mp3 files. Thing is, how do I get them on my smartphone?

2023-06-26

• 15:54 UTC (new) (history) 2023-06-26 My plans for 2023 - June update . . . . mbork – Hello, dear readers! Another two months have passed since the last update, so here is another one. (You can see the previous ones [[2023-01-14 My . . .

2023-06-19

• 15:15 UTC (new) (history) Comments on 2023-02-11 Linear scaling of subtitles timestamps . . . . Anonymous – subed does support timestamp scaling. See the C-M-x and C-M-S-x keybindings and the description in the README.
• 09:00 UTC (new) (history) 2023-06-19 Emacs Subed mode can now display waveforms . . . . mbork – As I have mentioned here quite a few times, one of my hobbies is translating subtitles. One feature I missed a bit in Emacs Subed mode was displaying waveforms, so that I could position the startstop timestamps of a subtitle visually/ with respect to the moments the characters started or stopped talking.
• 08:39 UTC (new) (history) all-english.png . . . . mbork

More...