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2024-06-08

• 08:04 UTC (new) (history) 2024-06-08 Managing Firefox tabs from command line with brotab . . . . mbork – It’s a real shame that you can’t drive Firefox from command line. (In fact, I already complained about it on this very blog.) In an ideal world, you could say firefox --eval '...' and put some (possibly) JavaScript code there to do stuff like navigate to a page, get the URL of the current page, get the list of open tabs etc.

2024-06-03

• 19:14 UTC (new) (history) 2024-06-03 Symlinks to directories . . . . mbork – It’s been a long time since I knew that symlinks to directories are tricky. Recently I decided to look into it more closely and learn once and for all what is going on with them. Here is what I learned.

2024-05-27

• 14:56 UTC (new) (history) 2024-05-27 Git mailmap file . . . . mbork – As everybody knows, Git has a lot of obscure commands and options. Today I’d like to write about one of them (which incidentally I mentioned two weeks ago). You can put a file named .mailmap at the top level of your Git repository, and have various names and/or email addresses mapped to a “canonical” names and addresses.
• 14:52 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2022-01-17 Making code snippets in Org-mode easier to type . . . . mbork – That's a great question. I have no idea, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that customizing {{{org-emphasis-alist}}} is a bad idea, since . . .
• 14:50 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2024-05-20 Org-clockify . . . . mbork – Ha, now that's a great idea!

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