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2019-08-11

• 19:18 UTC (new) 2019-08-11 A console.dir hint . . . . Marcin Borkowski – As everyone knows, console.log is the ultimate debugging tool. ;-) Joking aside, it is genuinely useful (together with console.error) in scripts. I often write small (and sometimes not so small) CLI utilities in Node.js, and they are really indispensable. Sometimes, however, you want to output a complicated structure.
• 16:13 UTC (new) Comments on 2019-01-20 Filling and version control . . . . yantar92 – You may also take a look at centered-window-mode.

2019-08-05

• 17:04 UTC (new) 2019-08-05 datefudge and agenda testing . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago, a question was asked on the Org-mode mailing list about a specific kind of task in Org agenda. This made me think about debugging one’s agenda settings. I’ve already written about batch agenda, but one problem with agenda testing is that it is inherently stateful, in one of the worst ways – it depends on the notion of now. Debugging time-related stuff is hard. (Well, time-related stuff is hard, after all.) It would be great if you could just manipulate Emacs into thinking that the time is some day in the future (or in the past)… Well, actually, it can be done – and it’s easier than I thought.

2019-07-29

• 18:29 UTC (new) 2019-07-29 Git commands as separate executable files . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Today we are going to talk about git commands and how they are implemented. Don’t worry, I won’t get too technical – if only I have not studied Git sources (I do not speak C well enough for that anyway). It is enough for us to read the manpage of the git command itself (which I did, along with some experimentation).

2019-07-22

• 18:43 UTC (new) 2019-07-22 Increasing timeout in nginx . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Today’s is a short follow-up to the post about debugging Node.js programs in a Vagrant virtual machine. It turns out that it lacked one important piece. It’s all and good in an artificial environment of an isolated script – but when we debug a real Node.js application, the server will timeout while we are slowly stepping through code.

2019-07-15

• 18:31 UTC (new) 2019-07-15 Batch Org agenda . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Org-mode agenda is a notoriously complex system. It is really great from a user’s perspective, but a nightmare for a programmer wanting to tap into its generation. A long time ago I have had an idea for a productivity tool which would compute my “agenda score” (for lack of a better name), where each task not yet done would contribute to a total of some kind of “penalty” points – and more of them depending on how long the task is overdue. However, I am probably too stupid to be able to understand what is going on under the hood of org-agenda, and I started to look for better ways. There do exist some tools which might help with that – org-super-agenda being one of them, but there are probably others. Still, I felt this is not the best way. I decided to drop my idea (at least until I have more time and motivation to get back to it). After some time, however, I came back to org-agenda, this time from another direction.

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