9. Slugify in Python 3

   Today I needed a function to create a slug (an ASCII-only representation of a string). I went Googling a bit, and found an excellend Flask snippet. Problem is, it is designed for Python 2, so I came up with a Python 3 version.

   import re
   from unicodedata import normalize …

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10. Add Python docstring to the beginning of anything in Emacs

    Now that I write Python code for a living, I write a lot of functions, classes, and modules. What I still tend to forget, and also find tedious, is adding docstrings. Unlike many developers, writing documentation is not an enemy of mine, but it usually comes to my mind when …

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11. Get account data programatically from id-manager

    I recently started using id-manager. It is a nice little package that can store your passwords, encrypting them with GPG. My original reason was to store my GitHub access token for github-notifier, but it soon turned out, it’s not that easy.

    id-manager is a nice package when it comes …

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12. Edit file as another user in Emacs

    I have recently found this article by Bozhidar Batsov on opening the current file as root. I barely use tramp for sudo access, but when I do, I almost never use root as the target user. So I decided to fix it for my needs.

    (defun open-this-file-as-other-user (user)
      "Edit current …

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13. How I started with Emacs

    Sacha Chua has a nice Emacs chat intro article back from 2013. I write this post half because she asks there about my (OK, anyone’s) first Emacs moments, and half because I plan to do it for months now.

    I wanted to start using Emacs 6(ish) years ago …

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14. git-merge stages

    This was a mail to my company’s internal Git mailing list, after I realised many colleagues can’t wrap their heads around merge conflicts.

    Hello all,

    I just saw this on the git-users list and thought it could help you when you bump into a merge conflict. It is …

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15. Emacs package to generate GObject boilerplate

    Before I started using Vala (and sometimes even after that) I often needed to generate new classes based on GObject.

    If you have ever worked with GObject in C, you know how tedious it can be. You need a pretty long boilerplate just to register your class, and, if you …

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16. A new home

    This is an excerpt from a novel of mine. The tree is the prophet of the highest god in that universe and thus can see everything that was or will ever be. It is said that whoever sleeps among its roots or branches will see colourful dreams about these stories …

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17. Vala interface madness

    Although I have just started making it in C, I decided to move my Matrix GLib SDK to Vala. First to learn a new language, and second because it is much easier to write GObject based stuff with it.

    For the first step I created a .vapi file from my …

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18. Emacs: Implement a GObject’s virtual function

    I have recently started creating a GLib implementation of the Matrix.org API. For that, I have created a GObject interface, MatrixAPI, which has as many virtual functions as API calls (which is a lot, and expanding). This way I ended up with the following scenario.

    In matrix-api.h I …

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