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Re:Emacs Turns 50
on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @11:36AM (#50275445)
I quit being an emacs tourist about 5 years ago, this year I started rewriting my init.el with use-package and the popular packages (vertico, eglot, etc). My config is still a mess and there’s always something new I want to do. Sometimes I think about trying neovim or trying some editor that I wouldn’t have to config stuff that much, but I think I’d want to customize things a certain anyway.
For LLM stuff I’ve been using eca, or claude code in a vterm or ghostel. I’m still experimenting with this stuff but I don’t think emacs is getting in my way. Not sure if I’d recommend to everyone, though.
Re:iPod of 2026
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @04:47PM (#49926897)
It says it supports "streaming" but it is unclear if it will support streaming apps like Spotify/Apple Music or their own music streaming service.
Re:Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @04:17PM (#49527538)
It's a shame that the adblocker is limited, though. I've been using Orion as a replacement for Firefox on iOS, which has support for extensions (including uBlock Origin) and better UI/UX in my opinion, but it is not open source.
Re:How many of the 170k English words do you know?
on Friday June 19, 2026 @05:12PM (#48603301)
Interesting but tiring, I gave up the first time, but was curious because of the comments here and tried again, without much attention and taking some breaks. On my device I had to scroll to reach the “next” button.
Re:Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @11:24AM (#48556723)
They allow extensions on the Android version. But yeah, on iOS I had to switch to Orion. It seems FF for iOS doesn’t get much attention.
Re:GitHub and the crime against software
on Monday June 01, 2026 @07:23PM (#48363885)
I find Azure DevOps UI/UX very janky. Like, the work items sometimes are loaded in the frontend only and sometimes there is a refresh, then the URL in the browser is not the same of the work tree I am seeing; sometimes there is a lot of flicker/redirects to sign in. The wysiwyg editor sometimes preserve the color themes of the person who opened, it seems. The markdown editor is view or edit only. I probably faced more issues but I won’t remember now. But to say there are no issues, and it’s excellent, I cannot relate, had to chime in. Yeah, it works, but feels like an unpolished product, especially considering the resources it has. The uptime is better than GitHub’s, though.
Re:My I3-Emacs Integration
on Sunday May 24, 2026 @12:32PM (#48258688)
I can relate, finding myself pressing the wrong keybindings when moving between i3 and emacs windows. The idea in the post is interesting but I am not sure how I’m going to solve this. I have been thinking about trying EXWM or switch to another WM. Tried KDE but it didn’t have support for multiple workspaces in the secondary screen. And after using i3wm I found it difficult to get back to other WMs.
Re:Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged
on Thursday May 14, 2026 @06:49AM (#48133594)
Wondering what they will do when rust rejects a pr from them.
Re:Show HN: Free Alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
on Monday February 16, 2026 @07:24PM (#47042126)
Not sure why you got downvoted. I wish this was a tag or something.
> I can't imaging writing code by myself again, specially documentation, tests and most scaffolding
Shouldn’t we bother to write these things?
Re:Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete
on Thursday January 22, 2026 @02:42PM (#46724196)
It seems it would be possible to use this with minuet.el. I’m not familiar with it, though.
Re:F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree
on Monday September 29, 2025 @06:03PM (#45419337)
Seems Google is trying to make the price the only benefit on Android.
I wonder, excluding the freedom/device control and the price, what makes someone choose Android over iOS?