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2023-10-14

• 05:04 UTC (new) TODO 2023-10-14 Avoiding repetitions . . . . mbork – Deleted TODO_2023-10-14_Avoiding_repetitions
• 05:03 UTC (new) 2023-10-14 Avoiding repetitions . . . . mbork – I write a lot of prose. That does not mean I’m good at it nor very creative – I haven’t written any novels or even short stories. By “prose” I mean writing in a natural language (mostly English nowadays). In fact, most of the writing I’ve done in my life is technical in nature (usually either about technology or about mathematics). And (as you obviously know) I’m also a technology geek and an Emacs user. An immediate thought is: how to make Emacs help me write better?
• 05:02 UTC (new) TODO 2023-10-14 Avoiding repetitions . . . . mbork – I write a lot of prose. That does not mean I’m good at it nor very creative – I haven’t written any novels or even short stories. By “prose” I mean writing in a natural language (mostly English nowadays). In fact, most of the writing I’ve done in my life is technical in nature (usually either about technology or about mathematics). And (as you obviously know) I’m also a technology geek and an Emacs user. An immediate thought is: how to make Emacs help me write better?

2023-09-30

• 19:17 UTC (new) 2023-09-30 Confirming potentially dangerous actions . . . . mbork – A common situation is when I want to do something on my computer with possibly destructive consequences, like deleting a file, truncating a database table etc. One common approach to making sure this won’t happen accidentally is to require the user to press y or even type yes (this is what Emacs does with its y-or-n-p and yes-or-no-p functions). Some time ago I had a similar need in a shell script. I was afraid, however, that even requiring the user to type yes is not enough – it is easy to condition oneself to type a three-letter word without much thinking, after all.

2023-09-18

• 18:41 UTC (new) 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) 2023-09-02 Irregular recurring TODOs in Org mode, part I . . . . mbork – add categories (minor)

2023-09-02

• 11:52 UTC (new) 2023-09-02 Irregular recurring TODOs in Org mode, part I . . . . mbork – Some time ago I mentioned a very peculiar type of TODOs I’d like to implement. These are things I’d like to do from time to time, but not necessarily on a regular basis. A canonical example is an inspirational blog post I’d like to reread once in a while. I admit that this idea is inspired by spaced repetition, where things I want to remember are presented to me repeatedly, but with increasing intervals. Here, however, the situation is a bit different.

2023-08-21

• 17:47 UTC (new) 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) 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.

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