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2025-05-19

• 17:38 UTC (new) (history) 2025-05-19 Customization variables which require some computation after being set . . . . mbork – Today I’d like to learn – and then show – how to define a user option in Emacs so that setting it will trigger evaluating some Elisp code. Here is my use-case. I want the option to be a timestamp. The most convenient way to store it is as Unix time (number of seconds since the epoch), since the code using it will perform comparisons between that timestamp and other times. On the other hand, the most convenient way to set it is as ISO-8601 timestamp, which is inifinitely more human-readable than the Unix time.

2025-05-12

• 11:43 UTC (new) (history) Comments on 2025-05-12 Coloring Git output in Magit . . . . Anonymous – > I suppose that the reason it is not advertised may have something to do with performance issues. See also . . .
• 06:23 UTC (new) (history) 2025-05-12 Coloring Git output in Magit . . . . mbork – Today I have a very short and rather niche tip, but maybe someone will find it useful (as I did). Like many other people, I use Magit on a daily basis. One thing that bothered me a bit was the fact that when I pressed $ to see the output of the Git process, all colors were gone. This was a problem for me, since the pre-commit hook I use calls the TypeScript compiler to tell me about any potential problems with types in my code. By default, the output of tsc is colored with the ANSI color codes. While the coloring can be turned out, the setting to do that is rather crude (it also disables pretty-printing/formatting), and after all, these colors serve a purpose and are genuinely useful. I decided that before I turn the formatting off, it may be a good idea to check if Magit has an option to allow coloring the Git output using ANSI codes.

2025-05-05

• 19:50 UTC (new) (history) 2025-05-05 A simple budgeting app for Ledger . . . . mbork – Some time ago I mentioned having built a very simple web app to help me with budgeting with Ledger. Let me share it with you right now. It is extremely simple – the whole app resides in just one index.js file which has less than 150 lines of code, and over half of it is boilerplate code or code related to authentication (which is very simplistic anyway).

2025-04-28

• 18:41 UTC (new) (history) 2025-04-28 Improving my Emacs-Jira integration . . . . mbork – Almost three years ago I wrote about a very simple Emacs-Jira integration I have been using since then. As is often the case, I noticed some inconveniences with it, and decided to improve it.

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