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2026-02-09

• 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.

2026-01-19

• 18:46 UTC (new) (history) 2026-01-19 Toy train timetable clock . . . . mbork – My son loves trains. Once in a while, we’re playing with electric toy trains. Sometimes this means just having them move around and use switches to change their routes, and sometimes it means building two or more stations and moving actual (toy) people and (toy) wares between stations. Recently, we came up with an idea to level up our game.

2026-01-12

• 18:17 UTC (new) (history) 2026-01-12 Making fill-paragraph more flexible . . . . mbork – I wrote recently about fill-paragraph-semlf and how I moved to it entirely with M-q. It quickly turned out that it wasn’t the best idea. Sometimes I want to be able to fill the paragraph in the old way, too. I figured that the best way to do it is to make M-q do that when pressed for the second time.

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