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Re:What's New in Emacs 31.1? on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @10:47AM (#49435120)
You should give https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell and https://github.com/dakra/ghostel a shot. With ghostel I genuinely mix up which window (frame) is emacs rather than the native Ghostty window.
Re:Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig on Monday July 20, 2026 @01:09PM (#48981652)
Neat project, but the README would benefit from a human author. I can tell what you prompted by the way the README is worded. It should tell me more about what this project solves. I don't care that it uses idiomatic zig. Why should I use this instead of lazygit?
Re:Emacs, how it all started (for me) on Monday June 15, 2026 @05:09PM (#48547054)
I used vim for about 15 years and emacs for the last 6 or 7 and never has it been easier to emacs. For years it was searching Google, blog posts and manuals for "how do I do X in emacs?" and now it's trivial to ask AI. I always have a Copilot session open in my emacs config so it can tell me how my emacs does something and can update my config for me.
I hope folks know they can use Codespaces in their desktop editor. I never use the web editor.
Re:Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp on Saturday April 25, 2026 @06:46PM (#47905337)
Same. It's an awkward time to develop a new IDE.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @09:23AM (#42062701)
The frustrating thing is that the economy lags policy, and policy has limited influence on the economy to begin with. Inflation rose because the US consumer was ready to spend much faster than the supply chain could recover from the COVID era. The Inflation Reduction Act could only do so much to soften inflation, but the whole thing was blamed on Biden by the average voter.
Re:M4 MacBook Pro on Friday November 01, 2024 @12:48AM (#42014131)
I'm torn between the new M4 MBP and a Framework laptop with Linux for my personal computer. Can you share some deciding factors for you? Does it mostly come down to the OS? How is the battery life with the Framework?
I think their sights are set on military contracts (I believe they already have some military funding) and commercial aviation is a way to fund the development.
Re:Magic AI Secures $117M to Build an AI Software Engineer on Sunday February 18, 2024 @01:45PM (#39421779)
Updating dependencies and frameworks is maybe the biggest thing I can't wait for Copilot to do for me.