Updates. By Jeff Kreeftmeijer

I’m giving a best man’s speech tomorrow.

I’m currently alternating between thinking the speech I wrote is either trying too hard to be funny, or too sentimental. My current plan is to bring a note with keywords (I have eight), trying to sense the atmosphere, and mostly winging it. 🤷‍♂️

Don’t include external JavaScript on your website.

I used to run ads (don’t do that either). Some old pages still include the ad code. Ad company folded, domain got snatched up, now hosts a different JS file that calls window.open to redirect to another page. 🤷‍♀️

I like my writing tools elaborate enough that I spend more time configuring them and updating old articles to their formats than I do actually writing.

Org-mode fits the bill, and it’s been a lot of fun so far.

Please appreciate that last update. It took a lot of effort.

First I needed to increase the font in my browser and the margins in the inspector to get a clear screenshot, then I couldn’t find the screenshot as macOS now shows a preview in the lower right corner for five seconds before removing the file, apparently. 🤷‍♂️

brb, rebooting because Wacom

My average intake of Sriracha is causing a problem planning for our next hiking trip (weight wise) so I’m in the market for a spicier substitute. Suggestions?

Retroactively run a formatter on past commits by using the--exec option during an interactive rebase:

git rebase -i --exec 'mix format’ main
git rebase -i --exec 'prettier --write {**/*,*}.js’ main
git rebase -i --exec 'rubocop -a’ main

https://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/git-rebase-exec/

Please don’t tell people they must learn X before they can do Y, where X is the underlying technology, and Y is the modern abstraction.

You might be right, but that’s just being discouraging.

I accidentally a Node.js command line tool that takes an HTML file with an internal stylesheet, purges the stylesheet from unused selectors in the surrounding HTML, minifies it, then places it back into the <style> tags.

https://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/nodejs-purge-minify-css/

“I had a quiet weekend, so I could get some work done”

https://twitter.com/jkreeftmeijer/status/1406888796851933184

I suspect my colleagues are planning me an Emacs intervention.

When writing in Emacs’ Org mode, export with C-c C-e h o.

A browser window pops up with an HTML representation of the document you can copy rich markup from, to then paste in Basecamp’s text area.

https://twitter.com/jkreeftmeijer/status/1415307122531786756

Since Basecamp doesn’t accept Markdown anymore, what’s the best way to get a piece of text written elsewhere (which might include links and subheadings) imported into it?

Here’s a slightly cumbersome option. Trix (Basecamp’s editor) uses a contenteditable block, which retains styling. That means one could convert their comment to HTML (like the preview in a Markdown editor), copy the text from the rendered page, and paste it into Basecamp.

We’ve been using Lintje internally for a couple of days, and my commit messages have increased by 37%!

https://twitter.com/tombruijn/status/1414911832943431680

I published my notes on extracting files and directories from Git repositories (while retaining history) because most search results recommend git filter-branch, which you should never use. https://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/git-extract/

You can use Git’s -m option multiple times. The first is the subject line, and every subsequent one is a paragraph:

$ git commit -m "Subject" -m "First paragraph" -m "Second paragraph"

ProTip™: Add unique typos to your git commits, as they’re easier to search for.

To celebrate my eleventh Vim anniversary, I decided to switch to a proper editor.

https://github.com/jeffkreeftmeijer/.emacs.d

Complaining about recruiters emailing you is a bad look. Please stop.

Using a formatter like rustfmt, you could generate multiple versions of a code block with different column widths. Then, through JavaScript, you could load the one that fits based on the viewport width to get actually responsive <pre> tags. 🤔 #freeprojectidea

GitHub’s Copilot is basically AI StackOverflow in your editor, but without the mediocre explanations or disagreements on performance.

https://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/rust-stdin-stdout-testing/

1 file inspected, 286 offenses detected 

🤭

Ah, pen tablets. The pen for my CTL-4100WL stopped clicking, so I’m now back to my > 10-year-old MTE-450. Wacom doesn’t have drivers for that on newer macOS releases, so I’ve had to install a version somebody patched. But it works!

TypeError: Jest: a transform must export something.

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