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2022-10-29

• 10:16 UTC (new) (history) 2022-10-29 A bash helper for prefixed scripts . . . . mbork – Let’s say we have some project we are working on. The project involves a number of shell scripts for various tasks, like versioning, building, testing, deploying etc. It is useful to have these scripts in your $PATH while working on that project. There are several ways to do that. One way is to add the directory containing them to $PATH, but only for the time we’re working on the project. Another is to use things like npm run and the scripts property of package.json (and I’m fairly sure many other languages feature similar facilities). Recently, I found yet another one, which is pretty useful and extremely cool at the same time. I prefixed all the scripts with the project’s (abbreviated) name, say dw-​. So, assume I have scripts like dw-version.sh, dw-build.sh, dw-test.sh etc. Now I can permanently add the directory containing them to my $PATH, since I (kind of) namespaced them and they won’t get mixed with any other project’s scripts (nor general use utilities). The only trouble that’s left is that typing dw- each time is a bit tedious. Well, Bash to the rescue.
• 10:15 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2022-10-03 Converting words and sentences to identifiers . . . . mbork – Correct, though in my use-case the phrase always starts with a letter, so I didn't need that.

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.

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