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2026-05-09

• 03:53 UTC (new) (history) 2026-05-09 describe-personal-keybindings . . . . mbork – Some time ago one Emacs user made themselves a local web app showing various Emacs keybindings – basically, a web-based Emacs cheatsheet. It’s definitely a nice project even if not for me – if I were to create something like that, it would run in Emacs and not in the browser, it would definitely mention transpose-.* commands, and it would never be dark-mode-only;-). But it’s a really cool and nice project nevertheless! That’s not the topic of this post, however. In a Reddit discussion about this tool someone mentioned a command that blew me away: describe-personal-bindings.

2026-05-02

• 16:16 UTC (new) (history) 2026-05-02 Node.js reporting . . . . mbork – Some time ago I wrote about a new-ish feature of Node where it parses .env files (dotenv-style) itself. Today, I’m going to mention a feature which has been in Node for some quite time, but somehow I’m not sure many people know about it.

2026-04-25

• 03:01 UTC (new) (history) 2026-04-25 How I use my numeric keypad with Emacs Ledger mode . . . . mbork – As the readers of my blog know, I’m a heavy Ledger user. One thing that annoyed me was the fact that I couldn’t use my numeric keypad to enter amounts. The reason was simple – the “comma” key on that keypad inserted a comma in Emacs and not a period.

2026-04-20

• 16:42 UTC (new) (history) 2026-04-20 How to quickly generate the list of all columns in a PostgreSQL table . . . . mbork – It is well-known that select * is an antipattern (except maybe in an SQL REPL). What to do, however, if you have a select * in your codebase and you want to change it to a proper list of column names?

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