2008-04-03 Kpathsea
(Uwaga! Dzisiejszy wpis jest ciut techniczny. Jak co, to ostrzegałem.) W zasadzie jestem człowiekiem . . . też szczególnie o zachowanie zasad [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX_Directory_Structure|TDS]] - . . .
2K - last updated 2008-09-03 10:26 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
2009-04-12 Content AND Presentation (en)
I would like to welcome everyone on this new and old blog. (New, because what you see is the first English . . . So, let us now listen for a while to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josemaria_Escriva|Saint Josemaría . . .
5K - last updated 2009-04-11 22:17 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
2014-08-08 A problem with a command with an optional star
TL;DR: I wanted to be smart, and it backfired. I'm currently writing a (longish) document on mathematics. . . . other things, I write about the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausdorff_distance|Hausdorff metric]], . . .
3K - last updated 2014-08-08 10:13 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
2015-01-10 A few random Emacs tips
I've quite busy recently, so instead of a full-blown post I'll share just a few random Emacs tips. Hopefully . . . use a lambda expression to perform [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_application|partial application]] . . . whether the file you edit contains a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_%28Unix%29|shebang]], and . . .
2K - last updated 2015-01-10 23:00 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
2015-01-21 Tree Edit Distance
Today I attended a //very// interesting lecture on so-called [[http://www.inf.unibz.it/dis/projects/tree-edit-distance/|tree . . . me dedicate to them this quote of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra|E. W. Dijkstra]]: . . .
5K - last updated 2015-01-21 21:32 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
2015-02-28 Math examples in TeX, part I
I'm currently coauthoring an introductory book on LaTeX. (Yes, yet another one. But apparently there . . . enter them with preservation of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself|DRY principle]]. . . .
3K - last updated 2015-02-28 10:42 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
2015-03-21 2 Tm 2,3 – a great comeback
It’s not a common thing that I write about music here, but today something extraordinary happened. I’m . . . a fan of the famous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2Tm2,3|2 Tm 2,3]] band. There are . . .
3K - last updated 2015-03-21 01:35 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-20 Fast-calc
I've been a fan of accounting for a long time now. My affair with bookkeeping started when I studied . . . exposed to the brilliant ideas of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bookkeeping_system|double-entry . . .
6K - last updated 2015-06-20 20:32 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-27 Arriving at Amen
I do not often write book reviews on my blog (in fact, this is probably the first time;-)). However, . . . in the book: while St. Augustine, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton|GKC]], or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien|JRRT]] . . . /any/ modern text on Catholicism, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card|OSC]], Alan Perlis . . .
4K - last updated 2015-06-27 08:38 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-19 Theory of hyperconvex spaces – a beginner's guide
I am proud to announce that a book I have written is out. The book is entitled //Theory of hyperconvex . . . spaces: a beginner’s guide//. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injective_metric_space|Hyperconvex . . . devoted to their connections with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_theorem|fixed point . . .
1K - last updated 2020-10-18 16:07 UTC by mbork
2015-10-24 Yanking from Calc
Using Emacs Calc for calculations is one thing. Yanking the results into the document is another, and . . . Embedded mode definitely satisfies [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%2527s_three_laws|Clarke's . . .
2K - last updated 2015-10-24 22:53 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-26 What and how I’m learning
For today, I decided to write a “softer” post about my learning process. (I did not abandon coding, but . . . a new //natural// language. First, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Obvious|you have to practise . . .
5K - last updated 2016-03-26 17:11 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
2016-04-05 Finding Nemo, er, Turtle
Yesterday was a refactoring day: I shuffled the code a bit, made it suck a bit less (for instance, I . . . cool way to implement a turtle on a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientability|non-orientable manifold]]. . . . seem to be symptoms of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_creep|creeping featurism]]. . . .
2K - last updated 2016-04-05 19:40 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
2016-04-09 Choosing the unit turning angle
I think this is one of these tiny details which make the UX better or worse, so let us look a bit into . . . construct a regular //heptagon//. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructible_polygon#Detailed_results_by_Gauss.27_theory|Take . . .
5K - last updated 2016-04-09 11:17 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
2016-04-28 A problem with storing commands
I knew that at some point I'd hit some wall... Of course, I //will// overcome this issue, but right now . . . make programming “easy” (whatever that means). Wikipedia says that the first “primary goal” of Java . . .
4K - last updated 2016-04-28 18:02 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
2016-08-29 Geocaching for beginners
With the advent of Pokemon Go and my general dislike of the mainstream, I decided (after one friend mentioned . . . it) to give [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching|geocaching]] a try. I . . .
2K - last updated 2016-08-29 15:32 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
2017-09-25 The Unconquered
As you probably have noticed, my blog has shifted towards being almost exclusively about technology in . . . a good history book to learn about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna|1683]] or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Warsaw_(1920)|1920]], . . . in //The Unconquered//. (Also, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squadron_303_(book)|Squadron 303]] . . . decrypted the famous Enigma, but [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma#Polish_breakthroughs|much . . . the work was done]] by the famous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Rejewski|trio]] of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_R%C3%B3%C5%BCycki|Polish]] . . .
3K - last updated 2017-09-25 04:39 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
2017-10-08 Me an minimalism in 2017
It’s been very interesting for me to read my post from previous year about [[2016-11-27 Life, productivity, . . . one that comes to mind is probably [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%2527t_gonna_need_it|YAGNI]]. . . . add to it, really. Another one is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle|KISS]]. Of course, . . . one is necessarily a good idea. ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better|Worse is better]] . . .
4K - last updated 2017-10-08 06:19 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
2018-02-05 The death camps in Poland issue
In the spirit of [[2017-09-25 The Unconquered|another PSA about Poland]], I would like to mention to . . . of bias (which is a legitimate concern), ask Wikipedia or any history textbook. Thank you. CategoryEnglish, . . .
4K - last updated 2018-02-05 07:03 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
2018-03-26 Human-readable filesizes
A few days ago I needed to display a filesize (in one of the next blog posts I’ll show why I needed this!). . . . (obviously, since I want to use the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix|IEC binary prefixes]]). . . .
3K - last updated 2018-03-26 18:56 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-10 Git diff in Eshell
I try to use Eshell more, as part of a general drive towards moving everything into Emacs. One thing . . . maybe this is the right way?) [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Fermat|I have discovered . . .
2K - last updated 2018-11-16 20:20 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
2019-02-24 Transferring strings to a phone via QR codes
Sometimes I need to transfer some text (a link, a short note or something else) from my computer to my . . . A few days ago, an idea of using [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code|QR codes]] came to my mind. . . .
3K - last updated 2019-02-24 07:17 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
2019-03-11 Name-based UUID generation
Some time ago, I had a very specific need. I had some data which had to be anonymized before sending . . . Basically, I wanted my data to be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function|hashed]]. . . . I wanted my hashing to be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)|salted]]. And . . .
3K - last updated 2019-03-11 21:05 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
2019-12-16 rot13 and other Caesar ciphers in Emacs
A few days ago I saw a friend’s message on the Internet. The message looked like a bunch of random characters. . . . argument and uses then a general [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher|Caesar cipher]] to . . .
1K - last updated 2019-12-16 21:56 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
2020-06-15 Emacs, Org-mode, Beeminder and pomodoros
As some of my readers probably know, I am a [[http://mbork.pl/2015-08-22_Beeminder.el|happy user of Beeminder]], . . . somehow incorporating the famous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique|pomodoro technique]] . . .
3K - last updated 2020-06-15 20:51 UTC by mbork
2020-06-22 lodash iteratee shorthand
As is widely known, JavaScript is a language with good semantics, not-so-good syntax and a terrible standard . . . values”. Of course, this is not a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_relation|symmetric relation]] . . .
3K - last updated 2020-06-22 21:03 UTC by mbork
2020-07-06 Auto renaming image files
Like probably everyone else, I have //lots// of pictures from digital camera(s). Cataloging them is basically . . . is a command-line interface to a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_geocoding|reverse geocoding]] . . . is given more than once, only one [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_descriptor|file descriptor]] . . .
8K - last updated 2020-07-06 17:51 UTC by mbork
2021-04-10 deactivate-mark
Emacs Lisp has two entities called exactly the same – the {{{deactivate-mark}}} //function// and the . . . at all because Elisp is is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp#The_function_namespace|Lisp-2]].) . . .
4K - last updated 2021-04-10 07:52 UTC by mbork
2022-07-25 Make pass help me remember my passwords
As I [[2014-08-31 A simple, command-line-driven password store|mentioned a long time ago]], I use [[http://www.passwordstore.org/|pass]] . . . it correctly. Let’s also make it [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle|KISS]] – it will . . .
4K - last updated 2022-07-25 10:44 UTC by mbork
2022-08-01 Making secrets with Emacs
Let’s play with encryption! Well, not //real// encryption – but //fun// encryption. And few things are . . . of play) I could easily implement [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille|Braille alphabet]] (which . . .
3K - last updated 2022-08-01 06:35 UTC by mbork
2022-08-08 Copying the current location revisited
[[2022-06-20 Copying the current location|Some time ago]] I wrote about a snippet of Elisp for copying . . . more complicated and possibly less [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself|DRY]], but . . .
2K - last updated 2022-08-08 15:56 UTC by mbork
2023-04-22 Org mode clock table for the last week
Some time ago I mentioned that I started doing "weekly reviews" of what I have done last week and what . . . is certainly unexpected for me, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment|hence . . .
4K - last updated 2023-04-22 19:02 UTC by mbork
2023-05-13 Dieting with Org mode
Some time ago [[https://www.beeminder.com/mbork/weighing|I started to weigh myself every day]]. Some . . . random fluctuations is to look at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_average|moving averages]] . . .
4K - last updated 2023-05-13 11:46 UTC by mbork
2023-07-15 Drawing ASCII art charts in Emacs buffers
[[2023-05-13 Dieting with Org mode|Two months ago I wrote]] about how I track my weight in Emacs. I am . . . mode (or Artist mode), but it’s [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_scaling#Rescaling_(min-max_normalization)|easy . . .
6K - last updated 2023-07-15 04:26 UTC by mbork
2023-09-02 Irregular recurring TODOs in Org mode, part I
//Warning//: this is the first part of a series which is not even finished yet. And even though it’s . . . not fun at all to use.;-) So, let’s [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle|keep things as simple . . . (Note: I know about the famous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_management#The_Eisenhower_Method|Eisenhower . . .
13K - last updated 2023-09-05 15:25 UTC by mbork
2024-01-22 From the kill ring to a register
I am probably one of the five or six people on this planet who use Emacs registers. I mostly use them . . . Note that the above code is not [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself|DRY]] -- . . .
6K - last updated 2024-01-22 04:18 UTC by mbork
2024-03-11 More psql tricks
As I mentioned many times, I am a PostgreSQL fan. I [[2020-02-24 Some psql tips|wrote]] [[2020-03-28 . . . by two variables. Let’s take an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingency_table#Example|example . . . from Wikipedia]]: {{{ select 'male' as sex, 'right' as handedness, . . .
6K - last updated 2024-03-12 12:43 UTC by mbork
Cedilla zamiast ogonka
To zdumiewające, ale nadal spotykam pliki TeXowe, w których zamiast [[http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogonek|ogonka]] . . . używa się [[http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedilla|cedilli]]. Zamiast poprawnego . . .
2K - last updated 2008-11-10 13:34 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
Co to jest TeX
TeX (wym. //tech//) jest darmowym, profesjonalnym systemem komputerowego składu tekstów, napisanym przez . . . o TeXu, możesz przeczytać artykuł [[http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX|TeX]] w Wikipedii lub zajrzeć . . .
1K - last updated 2008-03-13 12:01 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
Comments on 2018-03-26 Human-readable filesizes
I prefer to shun the IEC binary prefixes and just use K, M, G etc. Context tells you that 1K=1024 and . . . 16:13 UTC ---- Apparently, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Consumer_confusion|not . . .
1K - last updated 2018-03-28 09:22 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
Ja, geek
-- Mam na imię Marcin. Od 20 lat jestem geekiem. -- Chcesz o tym porozmawiać, Marcinie? Ponieważ, jak . . . **P**: Co oznacza słowo //geek//? **O**: [[Wikipedia]] [[http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek|mówi]]: . . . * odkryłem/wynalazłem pojęcie [[http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droga_%28topologia%29#R.C3.B3wnowa.C5.BCno.C5.9B.C4.87|pętli . . .
4K - last updated 2009-01-05 22:09 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
Komentarz - 2007-05-08 Szkoła
Czasami sam się zastanawiam.. nie tylko jaki powinien być nauczyciel, ale bardziej - jaka powinna być . . . szkoły]]. To tak zwana [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_school|Sudbury school]], . . .
36K - last updated 2007-07-26 07:45 UTC by leetoo
Komentarz - 2008-02-10 Rodzina
Nie jestem całkowicie pewien czy bycie komunistą wyklucza się z byciem katolikiem. W końcu pierwsze chrześcijańskie . . . bo sprawny demagog może człowieka [http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erystyka ładnie wygłupić]... -- . . .
5K - last updated 2013-12-14 19:09 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
Komentarz - gad-pkty-stale.tex
{{{ % Ponieważ komenda \phi już istnieje w LaTeXu, % musiałem użyć \renewcommand. }}} Trzeba było zdefiniować . . . skazani na inputenc (albo na [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XeTeX|XeTeXa]] czy [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_(TeX)|Omegę]]). . . .
2K - last updated 2008-06-10 11:48 UTC by maciej
Wikipedia
Używam niekiedy Wikipedii, choć niezbyt ją lubię. Dlaczego? Przede wszystkim dlatego, że słynna zasada . . .
1K - last updated 2008-04-06 13:26 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
dr.tex
Parę osób pytało mnie ostatnio o szablon doktoratu w LaTeXu. W końcu wziąłem mój doktorat, poświęciłem . . . w ogóle go nie czytając (por. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming|cargo cult . . .
11K - last updated 2010-01-06 23:29 UTC by Marcin Borkowski
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