Ah, the night before a coding interview. It’s like the night before Christmas, if instead of presents, Santa was bringing a whiteboard full of algorithms and data structures for you to solve while someone watches over your shoulder. The anticipation is palpable, the anxiety is through the roof, and your brain decides it’s the perfect time to replay every piece of code you’ve ever written,…
When working on a large monorepo (like a ten-year-old Ruby on Rails app), we can use projectile-find-file to go to files but it be slow when the file list is long.
Today I published an article in Gusto Engineering Blog. It is about how I manage my working memory with a single plaintext file: wm.txt. And later the workflow evolved into a wm.org file and leverage all the power of org-mode!
This post talks about how to write elisp code to read *.org files, including looping through headings, get org file properties, building complex search queries.