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2026-02-21

• 17:07 UTC (new) (history) 2026-02-21 Org links’ targets . . . . mbork – When I write blog posts containing several links (usually to Emacs documentation, sometimes to my other posts and sometimes to other websites), one of the things I do is to check if all the links are correct. Usually I just middle-click on every one of them in the browser and see if they lead to the right place. I thought, however, that it would be useful to be able to see where an Org link points to without actually going there.

2026-02-16

• 15:03 UTC (new) (history) 2026-02-16 Toy train timetable improvements – buttons . . . . mbork – A few weeks ago I wrote about my toy train timetable clock. I used it with my son a few times since then, and it worked great. However, some things that I imagined would be a good idea turned out to be a bit worse UI-wise.

2026-02-09

• 16:28 UTC (new) (history) 2026-02-09 2026-02-09 Node modules working as command-line scripts revisited . . . . mbork – Deleted 2026-02-09_2026-02-09_Node_modules_working_as_command-line_scripts_revisited
• 16:27 UTC (new) (history) 2026-02-09 Node modules working as command-line scripts revisited . . . . mbork – Over five years ago I wrote a short post about writing JavaScript scripts which also work as CJS modules. I wrote that I didn’t know how to perform a similar trick with ESM modules, and that it might even be impossible. Well, I was wrong. I found a solution in the book Shell scripting with Node.js by Axel Rauschmayer.

2026-02-02

• 06:00 UTC (new) (history) 2026-02-02 git-link . . . . mbork – I have recently discovered a great little package called git-link. It is a wonderful addition to Emacs’ Git-related capabilities. Its purpose is to create links to various Git repositories (it supports GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab and several others) based on where the point is.

2026-01-26

• 20:17 UTC (new) (history) 2026-01-26 A simple but nice PostgreSQL trick with timestamps and nulls . . . . mbork – I had a pretty busy week, so today I only have a short PostgreSQL tip I learned recently. Assume that you have a table of users, and it has two columns containing timestamps: created_at and deleted_at. The former is non-nullable, but the latter can contain nulls (for users who were never deleted). Let’s assume that you want to select all users who existed at some point in time, say today at midnight.

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