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2022-10-25

• 10:38 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2022-07-11 A poor man's Emacs - Jira integration . . . . Anonymous – Really appreciate the writeup - didn't know about jira-terminal; love the minimal nature of it

2022-10-24

• 06:18 UTC (new) (history) 2022-10-24 Playing videos from the last position in mpv . . . . mbork – Two weeks ago I wrote about saving timestamps in YouTube links. It turned out that there is a much, much better solution to the problem I was having.

2022-10-15

• 19:20 UTC (new) (history) 2022-10-15 Converting words and sentences to identifiers in shell . . . . mbork – About two weeks ago I wrote about a simple piece of Elisp to convert a random English phrase to identifier. I showed it to one of my colleagues and she decided it would be cool to have it outside Emacs.

2022-10-10

• 20:35 UTC (new) (history) 2022-10-10 Adding timestamps to youtube links . . . . mbork – I sometimes keep YouTube links in my Org mode files. They are often links to lectures which I don’t usually watch in one sitting. One trouble I always have is remembering the point where I stopped watching last time and starting there. Obviously, I decided to write some Elisp to ease that task a bit.

2022-10-03

• 21:07 UTC (new) (history) 2022-10-03 Converting words and sentences to identifiers . . . . mbork – Preview: Some time ago I had a need to “convert” a phrase, or even a whole sentence, into an identifier. By “converting to an identifier” I mean lower-casing the whole thing and changing non-letter characters into underscores. For example, “Hello, world!” should become hello_world. I came up with some simple code to do that – but it turned out that there were some pitfalls I did not expect.

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