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Comment · 9 hours ago
Come to think of it, this reminds me of how LLMs fill every empty space in a design with technical jargon that is technically correct but doesn’t serve any purpose. Basically typographic cornice.
Comment · 3 days ago
Reminds me of https://github.com/emacs-eaf/emacs-application-framework which I've never been able to get to work. I guess this is peak personal software.
Comment · 3 days ago
Fantastic rundown, thank you!
Wow I missed canvas support completely. This is going to make some custom UI's way easier to make compared to the hacks I had to resort to in the past [0]
I do hope one day we'd get a new cross platform performant display engine that draws like Zed does for more UI capabilities in Emacs. Neomacs[1] promises this and has some of this but looks like its suffering from never ending scope creep and continuously moving back and forth between 80% there and 90% there due to unattended agents running wild.
Comment · 3 days ago
After a couple of years of detour I’m back to using Emacs since all the fancy lsp, debugger etc stuff in VSCode and Zed doesn’t matter as much for me anymore and I am just more productive with Emacs. But I am still using it like it is 2020. I hear people using coding agents to make crazy customizations to their emacs config and I can imagine Emacs is particularly suitable for this.
Curious what are the biggest things that have come out in the last year or two, and what emacs based personal software have others reading this made?
Comment · 8 days ago
How did MirageOS end up powering parts of Docker stack?
Comment · 9 days ago
This is just silly. Nobody is adding icons to Mon, Tue, Wed. Yeah maybe with LLMs it is even easier to fill up empty icon: optional<string> values without thinking. But extreme of not using icons is even worse than meaningless icons that you can at least get used to differentiating.
Here's an example from Chrome on macos:
https://i.imgur.com/I3d8YdA.png
This would benefit from icons at least on new tab, mute, pin, search, split etc
Comment · 14 days ago
Feels like sunk cost fallacy. Clearly US is so far behind in human facing concerns so might as well not waste any more of the precious resources. Let’s just double down on investing in the prosperity few rich armed with super intelligent robots and maybe they’ll solve the problem by accelerating the pace of making the rest of the world so much worse that this comparison is over once and for all.
Comment · 17 days ago
Exactly, so even heritage brands use their brand power to peddle the same low quality stuff you can find on AliExpress. And their flagship stuff continuously gets eroded and enshittified as well. YT is full of "why Dr Martens/The North Face/KitchenAid/Black & Decker/... doesn't make the same quality stuff anymore" type of content. Even when you pay for the brand name it doesn't get you far.
Comment · 17 days ago
It's all the same crap. you buy name brand from Tefal, or a local kitchen shop and it's the same crap with a different label and large markup. On Amazon you get all these letter brands with the same crap. You try to go to the source and buy from AliExpress but the lobbying worked and countries like The Netherlands introduced taxes to make it unattractive and help the local drop shippers keep their jobs. Some countries outright ban it. You think they're protecting the consumer but it's all the same crap but with extra steps.
Comment · 25 days ago
I can't open those with a coin, the plastic is too soft indeed. But if I stick them to another object using the included sticker I can just rotate the device itself to reach the battery. If you want it to be mobile you can stick it to something small or a 3d printed piece of plastic.
Comment · 29 days ago
Python REPL definitely hates me
Comment · 1 month ago
I usually try to keep an open mind but wow this is so bad. I was a loyal Firefox user but between the memory and perf issues and now this, I've now switched to Helium. I miss the "Multi-Account Containers" but that's about it.
They just had to look at Arc for what people want out of the future of browser design and instead they committed this own goal.
Comment · 1 month ago
For the record I did not mean to say that about your work, nice job.
Comment · 1 month ago
It is impressive, but all the hype and fake demos are selling it as a model that is as smart as frontier reasoning LLMs in the decisions it makes yet much cheaper and much faster, which is not true.
Comment · 1 month ago
which ones do you recommend instead?