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2020-08-17

• 19:39 UTC (new) (history) 2020-08-17 A simple bash one-liner to check a bunch of files for the terminating newline . . . . mbork – Some time ago I had a bunch of csv files in a directory, and some of them had terminating newlines. I wanted to check if every one of them was newline-terminated. After a while of thinking, I came up with this Bash one-liner:

2020-08-10

• 20:53 UTC (new) (history) 2020-08-10 Custom git-log format and a poor man's changelog revisited . . . . mbork – A few months ago I wrote about a “poor man’s changelog” in Git. This post is a short follow-up with another tip on how to make this “changelog” more useful.

2020-08-03

• 14:55 UTC (new) (history) 2020-08-03 Look up a global variable in the database in Node.js . . . . mbork – Today I encountered an interesting problem. Assume that you want a global constant in your Node.js backend, but its actual value is to be taken from a database. This means that fetching the constant should be done asynchronously. Unless you use Node.js 14.3.0 or newer (which as the time of me writing this is not yet ubiquitous), you cannot await your database request at the top level

2020-07-26

• 08:05 UTC (new) (history) 2020-07-26 Running Node.js scripts from the command line . . . . mbork – A few days ago I accidentally ran Node.js from the command line with a wrong argument. I had a script – call it myscript.js – in a directory called myscript. I typed node mys in the directory one level higher, pressed tab and ended up with node myscript/, then pressed enter and got an error (obviously). So, I then cd​‘d into the right directory and (without much thinking) pressed up twice and enter. To my surprise, the script ran. What is going on?

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