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Marcin Borkowski
Personal blog · mbork.pl · on HN as mbork_plprogrammingproductivity
Marcin Borkowski's personal blog at mbork.pl covers programming and productivity. Since 2014, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
The one HN comment links Marcin Borkowski's post on using Webster's dictionary in Emacs, and a follow-up on integrating dictionaries into Emacs. The linked posts are practical Emacs how-to posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
And here's how to integrate Webster's into Emacs :) http://mbork.pl/2017-01-14_I'm_now_using_the_right_dictionar... Actually there's more than one way, of course. See the comments here: https://irreal.org/blog/?p=6546
Comment linking /2017-01-14_I'm_now_using_the_right_dictionary
on “Using the wrong dictionary (2014)”Submitted My Emacs Lisp book is finished as a story · 410 points
HN discussionPlug: https://mbork.pl/2013-09-18_Selective_replacement_in_LaTeX_d...
Comment linking /2013-09-18_Selective_replacement_in_LaTeX_documents_(en)
on “Elisp in Replacement String”Submitted Emacs Lisp book revived: Marcin Borkowski as a story · 91 points
HN discussionShameless plug: I also have some psql tips on my blog, for example here: https://mbork.pl/2020-02-24_Some_psql_tips And I agree that psql is great!
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on “Psql Tips”Submitted Improving Emacs Screenshots as a story · 36 points
HN discussionSame here, but kitty is inferior in some respects. I still don't know how to this [0] in kitty... [0] https://mbork.pl/2022-01-10_Simple_tmux_scripting_revisited
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on “Tmux has forever changed the way I write code [video]”Submitted A few new things in Emacs 29 as a story · 16 points
HN discussionWell, Emacs has had a poor man's "Paint" for over two decades: ;;; artist.el --- draw ascii graphics with your mouse -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;; Copyright (C) 2000-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. It is not as nice and colorful, but it has a spray tool (yay!). Also, it is actually useful once in a while [0]. [0] https://mbork.pl/2023-07-15_Drawing_ASCII_art_charts_in_Emac... [0] https://mbork.pl/2023-07-15_Draw…
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on “Textual Paint – MS Paint in your terminal”Submitted What is Emacs, really as a story · 12 points
HN discussionhttps://mbork.pl One post per week for almost 9 years now. (In July I'm going to change this to one post per two weeks since I'm starting another blog.) Mainly Emacs stuff with a bit of JS and PostgreSQL, and sometimes other stuff once in a while. The blog started in 2006 (then only in Polish), the English version started in 2009, and was rather irregular until 2014.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted The benefits of everything (in Emacs) being a buffer as a story · 8 points
HN discussion> There’s really nothing killer in Emacs 1. Org mode 2. Magit 3. Wdired 4. Synergy between various components (shameless plug: https://mbork.pl/2023-01-30_The_benefits_of_everything_being... )
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on “916 Days of Emacs”Submitted Many Screens Left as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThanks! How about an RSS channel? You can choose one here: https://mbork.pl/Recent_Changes . (See also here: https://oddmuse.org/wiki/Rss_Action .)
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on “My Plans for 2023”Submitted A bash helper for prefixed scripts as a story · 3 points
HN discussionEmacs Lisp has AOP built in [0], and in this context it is extremely useful. The common use case is advising functions of a third-party library without modifying the library itself (which wouldn't survive e.g. an upgrade). This is a bit atypical, though, in that the end user is a programmer here. A blog post I wrote last year [1] is one example of advising functions sitting pretty deep in the chain of function calls…
Comment linking /2022-09-17_Safe_killing_with_Emacs
on “Aspect-Oriented Programming”Submitted My Plans for 2023 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My email capturing workflow as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Star Wars crawl in Emacs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I wrote a booklet about personal accounting in Ledger as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debug-on-whatever as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pretty-printing Emacs Lisp code as a story · 1 points
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