Jenkins is an amazing free and open source continuous integration and
deployment software. But its primary means of configuration is a web
UI, and recently that cost me a lot of debug time. That set me down
the path of figuring out a way to version control the Jenkins config
(the $JENKINS_HOME directory).
Git Delta is a command line utility that beautifies git diffs in the terminal. But did you know that it can do the same in Magit too?
You can phonetically write a non-English language on an English keyword in Emacs, and that transforms into that non-English script. This is called transliteration, and I demonstrate that for the Gujarati language in this post.
Use go clean -modcache to clean up all the old auto-downloaded Go
modules in ${GOPATH}/pkg/. That’s all you need to know. Rest of the
post gives just the history of how I got there.
How to view GitHub Pull Request branches locally in the cloned repo, and more importantly, how to do that automatically from within Emacs.
Setting a different font for a specific script or language in Emacs.
My diagrammatic take on summarizing all the Emacs advice combinators.
How to define a custom org-global-cycle-like command that collapses
only the Org subtrees with specific properties.
The default behavior of Firefox opening new tabs from links had been troubling me for a while .. it was time I tried to do something about it.
How I generated the Python dependencies file requirements.txt so
that Netlify can install and run the HTML5 Validator before deploying
this site.
Use tar -caf <file> <dir> to create an archive, tar -xf <file> to
extract one, and more.
Unclutter is a better looking Reader View browser add-on available for both Firefox and Chrome.
How I fixed my site content and went down from 46 HTML validations errors down to 0!
Validate your website offline — It’s just one curl command away.
A brief guide on how to install Hugo themes using Hugo Modules.
Using the org-map-entries API to loop through selected or all
headings in an Org file.
Quick introduction to Org mode’s :LOGBOOK: feature and how I use it
to record time-stamped notes for blog post updates.
A guide on how to build Org mode from its main branch and load in Emacs without any path shadowing.
Download and “installing” Nim using just curl and tar.
Quick tip on how to create git patch files in Emacs using Magit.
In this post, I introduce a little library I created for ox-hugo to
have a robust mechanism for generating TOML from any Lisp expression.
Creating a specification for an Emacs-Lisp library to convert Lisp data expressions into easy-to-read TOML strings.
A Hugo partial to parse all the backlinks to any post from the same Hugo-generated website.
In my previous post, I talked about how info: Org link export
support got added to ox-hugo. This post is about making those
exported links a tiny 🤏 bit better.
Journey of Org links from copying (storing) them, inserting them in
Org documents and exporting them. The focus of this post is on the
info: type Org links, but the same concept would apply to any Org
link type.
A short guide for getting the single quotes rendered as expected
(straight or curved) in Emacs Lisp function and variable documentation
strings and message outputs.
Use goat code blocks if you have ASCII diagrams with a mix of text
and box drawing characters.
Using the :around advice to prevent messages from being displayed in
the echo area or the ∗Messages∗ buffer.
How to use the Nim importcpp pragma to bind to C++ Standard Template
Libraries like std::list.
A quick introduction to using ERT (Emacs Lisp Regression Testing) for your next elisp library.
A custom Hugo shortcode to create cross-references to other posts using their title strings.
What are Hugo Modules and should you convert your Hugo site to be one?
Let Hugo do the counting of how far along I got into the #100DaysToOffload challenge.
Using grep to do substring extraction in shell scripts.
Using parameterized classes with static functions to make up for the lack of generics in SystemVerilog.
Adding sidenotes using a Hugo shortcode and ox-hugo.
Through the Mastodon-verse, one day I somehow landed on the amazing website https://takeonrules.com/ by Jeremy Friesen and I got motivated to learn about sidenotes once again.
This post describes my fresh attempt at getting the sidenotes to work.