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2022-08-08

• 15:56 UTC (new) (history) 2022-08-08 Copying the current location revisited . . . . mbork – Some time ago I wrote about a snippet of Elisp for copying my current location. I’ve been using that snippet all the time, and soon I discovered two of its limitations.

2022-08-01

• 06:35 UTC (new) (history) 2022-08-01 Making secrets with Emacs . . . . mbork – Let’s play with encryption! Well, not real encryption – but fun encryption. And few things are more fun than playing ciphers with kids!

2022-07-25

• 06:22 UTC (new) (history) 2022-07-25 Make pass help me remember my passwords . . . . mbork – As I mentioned a long time ago, I use pass as my password store. Recently I was thinking about a scenario where I lose access to my computer and backups and need to check emails. I decided that it would be beneficial to remember at least some of my passwords.

2022-07-18

• 18:32 UTC (new) (history) 2022-07-18 Making some things more legible . . . . mbork – Continuing the topic of one of the last posts, let me talk about another way to make dealing with a bank easier. In emails or web pages concerning payments people often have bank account numbers. Such a number consists (at least in Poland) of 26 digits. The first two are check digits, and the rest are the “basic bank account number”. Oftentimes people just paste the string of 26 digits, which is very difficult to read (and I sometimes do want to actually read the number, for example to make sure that two numbers agree). To solve that, it is customary to group these digits into sets of four (so the pattern is: two check digits and then six sets of four), divided by spaces. However, often I receive an email where there are just 26 digits lumped together. Let’s make them look better.

2022-07-11

• 14:05 UTC (new) (history) 2022-07-11 A poor man's Emacs - Jira integration . . . . mbork – I use Jira at work. (I know, I know. Actually it’s not that bad – at least it’s much better than Asana.) Of course, I also copy all my tasks to Emacs to clock them using Org-mode. A few days ago a teammate, seeing my Org file with all the Jira tasks, asked me how I pull them from Jira to Org. A bit embarassed, I told him that I’ve been just creating a new headline, typing the task id (like LT-1337) and copying the task title from Jira. This is not as bad as it sounds since it happen very rarely – say, once or twice per day, so automating this doesn’t really pay off. Still, it would be nice. So, I set out to do exactly that.

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