9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. How my e-mail gets to that other guy?

    A friend of mine asked me how it is possible that she pushes buttons on her keyboard and mouse, and in an instant her peer reads the text she had in her mind. This is a step-by-step introduction of what happens in-between.

    From your mind to your computer

    When you …

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17. F/OSS Fail meter

    I have recently bumped into this article. Naturally, I quickly calculated the FAIL metrics for all my projects (most of them are pretty high). To ease calculation, I made up a small page based on this list (although I have divided the points by 5; I really don’t understand …

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18. @ParamConverter à la Django

    One thing I really miss from Django is Symfony’s @ParamConverter. It made my life so much easier while developing with Symfony. In Django, of course, there is get_object_or_404 but, for example, in one of my projects I had a view that had to resolve 6(!) objects from the URL …

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