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It's love to have an interface where I could have several conversations with an LLM, with common context, but each separate and anchored to a different place in the code

Are you Saruman by any chance?

This is a really cool Emacs package (not mine) I found recently. Its purpose is to create links to objects (files and commits) on sites like GitLab, Savannah, Bitbucket, GitHub etc…

I've been working with a codebase for a very specific domain where hardly anyone even knew the English terms for the domain-specific things (and some of them probably didn't even e…

Thanks, that looks very neat! I love apps like this, situated software created to scratch someone's itch.

I'm not (yet) in my 50s (though close). I used to have a C64 back in the day. I wrote write a few things in its horrible BASIC dialect. Probably the most advanced was a database (n…

My guess would be that the broadcaster had one geek who pushed for that. Fellow geeks had software over the radio, the broadcaster had an opinion of a modern one, keeping up with t…

My wife is non-technical and doesn't know anything about bookkeeping. Every-ish day I ask her for receipts and enter them into our ledger-cli file. She mostly uses her debit card, …

Are you me, by any chance? I had been doing exactly this for years. Finally, my income rose enough that I stopped to care - I just pay from my current account and move on. But what…

I suppose one problem with this is that accounting needs legal responsibility in case of mistakes. Software usually (if not always) does not guarantee anything (in the legal sense)…

Besides being a mathematician and a programmer, I have a degree in finance and banking, so I learned double-entry accounting pretty early. As a mathematician, I appreciate the beau…

JarJarScript.

I did my share of coding on a Commodore 64 (have you seen that keyboard?) with a cassette tape as the only external storage, no debugger (just a very poor BASIC variant) and (of co…

Not to criticize you - I also use eglot and it's great - but let me mention that people have been doing pretty meaningful software development for several decades now, and LSPs are…

> Or, I could use some actually well designed software and save myself some printer ink :-) Or, you could use some well-designed and self-documenting software. Too bad there's not …

> How much do you pay annually out of pocket for health insurance premiums and other healthcare expenses? Very rough estimation: $9000. I'm not sure how much my wife pays - this is…

FWIW, I get on the order of $40/hour as a senior with almost 10 years experience, and it allows me not to worry too much about spending (with a wife earning about a third of my sal…

How is that specific to FOSS?

Staging is immensely useful in more than one case. Case one: WiP on a branch, code is pretty stable, but I want to do some experiments which will likely be deleted. I stage everyth…

The Fibonacci sequence might have been more appropriate.

Just a toy, showing how easy it is to leverage built-in Emacs features (most notably Artist mode, which provides a set of functions for creating ASCII-art vector graphics) and thin…

If I'd go that route, why not include that (encrypted) file on the drives themselves? > Avoid clouds, cloud accounts, any system you do not control as they can be hacked, go out of…

Thanks, that's an interesting option! It requires trust in the bank (of course), but I'm not that paranoid. However, I have a feeling that it's a bit expensive - it can be cheap (s…

So, I want to prepare an instruction for my family in the case I'm dead, in coma or something similar. This document will need to contain (or point to) passwords, but also services…