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2023-09-18

• 18:41 UTC (new) (history) 2023-09-18 Making Anki flashcards from subtitles . . . . mbork – Those of you who follow my blog know that one of my hobbies is translating subtitles. The main reason I do this is to watch stuff with my daughter, who doesn’t yet speak English fluently. Some time ago it dawned on me that I can use my translations twice. Not only can I watch films and tv series with her, but I can use them to help her learn English.

2023-09-05

• 15:25 UTC (diff) (history) 2023-09-02 Irregular recurring TODOs in Org mode, part I . . . . mbork – add categories (minor)

2023-08-21

• 17:47 UTC (new) (history) 2023-08-21 My plans for 2023 - August update . . . . mbork – Since about two months have passed since the last blog post with my 2023 plans update, it’s time for another one. This time it is going to be a bit shorter, since not a lot of stuff has happened (or rather, a lot did, but it was mostly concentrated on one of the projects, which I think is… good?).

2023-08-05

• 09:15 UTC (new) (history) 2023-08-05 Plotting ASCII art charts from Org mode tables . . . . mbork – Three weeks ago I wrote about simple ASCII art charts in Emacs. Now I’m going to use Org mode tables as the source of the data for them.

2023-07-22

• 04:45 UTC (new) (history) 2023-07-22 Org Clive - a new Org-mode-based blogging engine . . . . mbork – As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I am now working on a new Org-mode based blog engine. I am proud to say that it’s now ready (even though it’s not yet feature complete), and you can use it, too!

2023-07-15

• 04:26 UTC (new) (history) 2023-07-15 Drawing ASCII art charts in Emacs buffers . . . . mbork – Two months ago I wrote about how I track my weight in Emacs. I am still doing it, and dieting works quite well, but I had one problem with my setup: I really wanted to have a graphical representation of my weight data – in other words, a chart. After quickly assessing the existing solutions (the chart.el library included in Emacs and Org Plot, I decided that I need something else. I don’t want to have to run an external program (in this case, gnuplot), and I want to have a simple ASCII art scatter plot (but neither a bar chart nor just an additional column containing a histogram of the values in the table.

2023-07-08

• 13:20 UTC (new) (history) 2023-07-08 Finding a common prefix of a set of strings . . . . mbork – Some time ago I needed a very specific thing. Given two strings, I wanted to find their longest common (initial) substring. For example, given abc and abd, I wanted ab. I thought that Emacs Lisp must have something like this already, and I wasn’t wrong. It turns out there are even two functions which can do that!

2023-07-03

• 05:24 UTC (new) (history) 2023-07-03 From mp3s to podcasts . . . . mbork – Many years ago I used to listen to podcasts a lot. I had my two favorite ones, and they provided me with more than 90 minutes of interesting material to listen every week (and that is not counting several hundred archive episodes!). Recently, I decided to start listening again to interesting people while I commute. This time, though, I want to listen to webinars instead, and I have them in the form of mp3 files. Thing is, how do I get them on my smartphone?

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