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Definitely! Gen Z & A value uniqueness and authenticity. I think the customization options will resonate a lot with them.

It’s not the same service. Google’s vision OCR is pure text extraction, not layout. Pretty sure Google’s doc AI services that can identify headers vs body text is $10 per 1k pages.…

It’s already built in! C-h n view-emacs-news

Don’t think stuff like borg is necessary now that Emacs has built in support for installing packages from git repos (use-package :vc)

Hitting limits is more related to how many tokens it’s generating, not necessarily how complex the changes are. Hit the weekly limit on my 20x plan last week trying to do a full fr…

I agree. Someone can totally have this mindset while being an inexperienced developer. In my mind, a senior engineer knows what needs extra attention and where it’s ok to cut corne…

ASDF (Another System Definition Facility) is my all time favorite name for a piece of software. Descriptive, funny, and easy to type!

Emacs takes a lifetime to learn. The sooner you start the longer it takes!

Are you using gptel exclusively, or also things like aider/claude code? I’d love to hear more about your workflow if you have time to share!

What kind of stuff have you been building?

I buy disposable vapes because I convince myself it’s my last one. Once it runs out I’ll quit. Buying a rig is accepting defeat. Except this vape ran out faster than I expected. I …

> I’ll invite an acquaintance to get a coffee or beer with me a few times but never have this acquaintance seemingly think of me if I’m not directly asking them to hang. This is a …

Btrfs snapshots are the closest thing I can think of. It doesn’t have the concept of branches specifically, but you can take snapshots of the entire file system and view specific f…

Can’t you do that with a normal escrow service? People do it every day when they buy houses and other expensive items. Why bother with blockchain?

Managing rounding and ensuring each set of entries balance can be tricky, especially if you have to share data with a system that can only handle currencies with two decimal places…

That’s why I always say “12 noon” when writing out scheduling instructions for something at 12PM.

That’s why I disable all of Spotify’s smart playlist and auto play features. When my playlist/album ends I want to select something new, not be spoon fed whatever everyone else is …

Agreed, not seeing many good use cases. It could be prescribed to alcoholics who can’t/won’t stop drinking to help them taper off alcohol, but people would just end up drinking mor…

The problem is Apple is corrupting SMS, which should be a public and interoperable standard. Google/Gmail is doing the same thing to email. There’s no technical reason you couldn’t…

+1 for the Midori notebooks. I bought a nice leather cover and replaced the notebooks inside as they fill up. Or at least I did before I switched to writing on my Kindle scribe. I …

fish has by far the best auto-completion out of the box. That’s what sold me. And the website is amazing. “Finally, a command line shell for the 90s”

For plugins maybe, but coming up with a thoughtful set of key bindings takes work. If everything is reconfigurable, like with Emacs, I don’t see the harm in giving users something …

C-h a (apropos-command) makes finding things with unexpected names a lot easier. I relied on C-h f (describe-function) for years, but that only matches function names. Apropos sear…

Can you elaborate?