alexkehayias
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Comment · 1 year ago
Having used emacs for many years, OP's description of "doing things wrong" is exactly the way I use emacs.
I seldom care about the inner workings of emacs and will do the absolute minimum to get it to work the way I want and then move on. I'm reminded over and over again that Emacs patinas really nicely with poorly written elisp in an init file over time.
Case in point, I found that org-export is super slow. After profiling it, I found the slow function, copied it, removed the slow part, and advice-add it right back in there[0]. Might this break some other deeply intertwined behavior someplace else? Probably. Does it matter if I'm the only one using it? Nope.
[0]https://github.com/alexkehayias/emacs.d/blob/master/init.el#...
Comment · 1 year ago
I’m using gpt-4o which I think is the default for the OpenAI configuration.
Haven’t tried other models yet but old like to see how o3-mini performs once it’s been added.
Comment · 1 year ago
So I gave goose a whirl and I actually really like the approach they are taking, especially because I use emacs and not vscode. I would recommend people try it out on an existing project—the results are quite good for small, additive features and even ones that are full stack.
Here's a short writeup of my notes from trying to use it https://notes.alexkehayias.com/goose-coding-ai-agent/
Comment · 3 years ago
You have to fill in some gaps (and occasional paranthesis) but it’s pretty darn good at writing elisp for improving your config. I find it’s helpful enough that you can take on medium hanging fruit that you wouldn’t attempt otherwise.
For example, I wrote a minor mode for centering text, an org-export backend for Notion, and some plumbing for chatgpt-shell.
Comment · 4 years ago
I have a pretty similar workflow for publishing my personal notes which is exported using GitHub actions.
https://notes.alexkehayias.com
Relevant emacs init code here (a lot of hacks to get exporting to ox-hugo to work and improve performance): https://github.com/alexkehayias/emacs.d/blob/master/init.el#...
I find navigating notes with an interactive graph as not that useful for others. I mostly use org-roam-ui myself to spot notes with no links but otherwise there's way too many nodes to do anything other than randomly click around.
Comment · 5 years ago
Nice, I’ll check out poetry.
That’s great that some of the virtualenv functionality made its way into the standard library!
Comment · 5 years ago
:-) Thanks for pointing out FastAPI!
You're right, far less churn than when I came back to js after leaving off at backbone/coffeescript/grunt...
Comment · 5 years ago
Thank you! re: sqlalchemy, are there more options for python micro web frameworks like Flask? I enjoyed flask + sqlalchemy in the past.
Comment · 5 years ago
Thanks for the heads up about graphQL—I think I'll avoid for now. It will be for a new project so not a big deal.
I just had a quick look at PyTorch... you're totally right this is miles ahead of what I remember.
I forgot to ask about package management. Do you use pip, conda, poetry?
Comment · 5 years ago
Thanks, didn’t know about py video. I will take a look!