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I really appreciated this too. Such a contrast with a similar article from someone offended because their "honesty" caused a patch to be rejected.

Not a counter-point, but: the other day I rebuilt my personal server, finishing by pointing the reserved IP at the new box. I then had a period of confusion because I was still see…

About my only usage is to augment my isearch. I frequently use isearch to navigate to a place on screen, but sometimes there are so many matches it would take a lot of repeated "C-…

Joe Marshall had a couple of posts about... No: https://funcall.blogspot.com/2025/05/vibe-coding-common-lisp...

Allow me to recommend Andrew Hyatt's tutorials: https://github.com/ahyatt/emacs-calc-tutorials

There's this Reddit AMA from a while back: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/13muo9/i_grew_up_in_t...

There's a nice-looking series of exercises from fly.io: https://fly.io/dist-sys/ (I haven't actually done them myself yet, but they look great. Not a standalone resource, but good …

Quick example video from Chris McCord using ffmpeg and whisper in Phoenix: https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/whisper-speech-to-text...

He's also behind expand-region! (Although, I've started experimenting with the much-smaller treesitter-based https://github.com/casouri/lunarymacs/blob/master/site-lisp/... ) I'm p…

If you follow Nims on Instagram he often links to other accounts.

That's great to hear, thanks! I haven't tested it in anger yet, and I'm not going to pretend to understand the display-code changes.

Also this one I think: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=616da...

There was a recent (a couple of weeks ago) commit that claims to rectify the long lines performance issue, for what it's worth.

They're loved by crop farmers where I live too (I also learnt recently), but they're illegal to cultivate because they're an introduced species. (Now that I write that, I assume ho…

I recently started actively bookmarking pages again recently (after being an early Pinboard customer, but not a particularly busy one). I wrote a script to email me 5 random bookma…

You can use tree-sitter already if you have dynamic module support: https://github.com/emacs-tree-sitter/elisp-tree-sitter

I recently created a daily "random 5 bookmarks" email using GitHub actions and Pinboard's API. I love it; it's a serendipitous reminder of things I once thought were interesting, a…

All this time I thought it was a John Cale song! (Granted I'd never checked) Edit: Huh, he did produce it, played on the original recording, and then released his cover before the …

I came looking to see if anyone had posted this. The thing that got to me about that episode was the complete lack of empathy (mild spoiler, I suppose) shown at the end, which is p…

I haven't watched any myself yet, but there's a thread on r/emacs on just that question: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/k77k6a/what_are_your...

https://newsblur.com/ Switched and started paying when Reader shut down, haven't regretted it.

I always end up using https://jwt.ms/ because it's much more lightweight.

Absolutely, and it really doesn't cost much to ensure they keep doing it. I've been subscribed ever since they offered them. A few years ago while starting up a business I realised…

Probably not what you're asking, but this book is fantastic: https://sql-performance-explained.com/ Edit: and topically, free for the weekend! https://twitter.com/MarkusWinand/stat…

They are in the process of removing the Zookeeper dependency from Kafka: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-500:+R...