http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss https://mbork.pl/Homepage Strona domowa Marcina Borkowskiego Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:00:35 GMT Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:00:35 GMT Oddmuse https://mbork.pl/2026-06-01_My_impressions_with_agentic_coding https://mbork.pl/2026-06-01_My_impressions_with_agentic_coding For the past several months I’ve been experimenting with so-called “agentic coding”, that is, using LLMs to write software. I have to say that I’m quite impressed by the possibilities this opens – and at the same time, pretty annoyed by the limitations… Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:00:35 GMT https://mbork.pl/Comments_on_2026-06-01_My_impressions_with_agentic_coding mbork new major 1 https://mbork.pl?action=history;id=2026-06-01_My_impressions_with_agentic_coding https://mbork.pl?action=browse;diff=1;id=2026-06-01_My_impressions_with_agentic_coding https://mbork.pl/2026-05-25_Ignoring_pdfs_when_auto-reverting_files https://mbork.pl/2026-05-25_Ignoring_pdfs_when_auto-reverting_files I quite like the global Auto Revert mode. It is especially useful when I something else than Emacs sometimes changes my files. (I bet some readers immediately thought about the now-fashionable agentic coding, but plain old git switch is enough!) It has one drawback, however. I hardly ever use TeX nowadays, but when I do, I use pdf-tools. Auto Revert mode doesn’t play nice with pdfs open in Emacs, often trying to revert them before TeX finishes writing to them, which results in ugly flickering. Mon, 25 May 2026 19:25:17 GMT https://mbork.pl/Comments_on_2026-05-25_Ignoring_pdfs_when_auto-reverting_files mbork new major 1 https://mbork.pl?action=history;id=2026-05-25_Ignoring_pdfs_when_auto-reverting_files https://mbork.pl?action=browse;diff=1;id=2026-05-25_Ignoring_pdfs_when_auto-reverting_files https://mbork.pl/Comments_on_2026-05-18_Marking_today%e2%80%99s_files_in_Dired https://mbork.pl/Comments_on_2026-05-18_Marking_today%e2%80%99s_files_in_Dired The `dired-mark-if' `macro` also marks special lines (such as those specifying a directory path), so let's exclude such lines: (dired-mark-if (let . . . Wed, 20 May 2026 14:37:58 GMT 109.252.167.113 new major 1 https://mbork.pl?action=history;id=Comments_on_2026-05-18_Marking_today%e2%80%99s_files_in_Dired https://mbork.pl?action=browse;diff=1;id=Comments_on_2026-05-18_Marking_today%e2%80%99s_files_in_Dired https://mbork.pl/2026-05-18_Marking_today%e2%80%99s_files_in_Dired https://mbork.pl/2026-05-18_Marking_today%e2%80%99s_files_in_Dired As anyone reading my blog knows, I’m a big fan of Dired. One of its killer features is the set of marking commands, which allow marking files based on their extensions, names (regex-based), contents (also regex-based). There is also a “universal marking command”, dired-mark-sexp, which allows the user to provide an Elisp expression serving as a predicate and marks all files satisfying that predicate. What’s even more, you can use several symbols in that predicate, like size or name (head to the docs to learn more). What I found lacking is an easy (that is, not requiring me to type a convoluted expression each time) way to mark “recently modified” files. Mon, 18 May 2026 21:01:00 GMT https://mbork.pl/Comments_on_2026-05-18_Marking_today%e2%80%99s_files_in_Dired mbork new major 1 https://mbork.pl?action=history;id=2026-05-18_Marking_today%e2%80%99s_files_in_Dired https://mbork.pl?action=browse;diff=1;id=2026-05-18_Marking_today%e2%80%99s_files_in_Dired https://mbork.pl/2026-05-09_describe-personal-keybindings https://mbork.pl/2026-05-09_describe-personal-keybindings 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. Sat, 09 May 2026 03:53:14 GMT https://mbork.pl/Comments_on_2026-05-09_describe-personal-keybindings mbork new major 1 https://mbork.pl?action=history;id=2026-05-09_describe-personal-keybindings https://mbork.pl?action=browse;diff=1;id=2026-05-09_describe-personal-keybindings