so fun ! great job !
Readit NewsSeqDesign commented on Show HN: Breakout with a roguelite/vampire survivor twist breakout.lecaro.me/... · Posted by u/lecarore
Kanata is amazing ! i'm using it right now. it can do many things like making a key a dual-function key (a letter on tap, a modifier on hold) and so much more
it recently got a new chording feature where you can press a whole bunch of keys at once (or just two if you'd like) and something will happen. like, you could press the letters q and n at the same time and program Kanata to send the word question or some macro like a hotkey or a series of hotkeys and strings. it's all up to you. i have a QMK board, but because Kanata has many more features and isn't limited to the memory of its chip, i use Kanata instead of QMK to architect my layout, complete with multiple layers and many QoL niceties
the new intel battlemage cards look sweet. if they can extend displays on linux, then i'll definitely be buying one
GNU Emacs is now dependent on TreeSitter which is a MIT-licensed project and LSP which is a Microsoft project. Also built-in support for non-gnu packages to install. Soon it will be a non-gnu project entirely. I think it's a bit sad that the ideological basis is beginning to be abandoned but I think there is not enough believers in the ideology anymore.
I would say most modern editors (Helix, Neovim) do TreeSitter and LSP better than Emacs today and probably for many years to come
> I think there is not enough believers in the ideology anymore
I don't know what ideology you're talking about, but the only one I've ever had is the Emacs ideology: use the best program ever made and be happy.
SeqDesign commented on EmacsConf 2023 Call for Participation emacsconf.org/2023/cfp/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I'm in.
I feel like I'm living in both the golden age of ergonomic keyboards (kinesis, ergodox, etc) and the golden age of modal interfaces for Emacs (evil, devil, boon, meow, etc).
Lots of new and interesting HSI ideas today, at least for us Emacs users.
what is HSI?
SeqDesign commented on Master Emacs in one year github.com/redguardtoo/ma... · Posted by u/oumua_don17
Alternately, spend a weekend learning VS.Code and get on with doing real work.
(I spent 20+ years with emacs, including writing one of the first popular HTML modes in 1993. We have better tools now!)
That's funny. I actually come from VSCode. I grew so sick of it that I decided to try Emacs. I hadn't done it because I always saw it as a meme because I always heard jokes about it.
I was horrified for months. How did no one tell me how much better Emacs is over pretty much everything and especially VSCode?
In terms of brilliance, VSCode is a photon or two. Emacs is the Tarantula Nebula.
I’ve been using Emacs for ~15 years right now, but I don’t recommend it for the last few.
I love it, it’s great, and as many others, I tried to move out of it but there was something I couldn’t do I KNEW I could get in Emacs and it frustrated me so much I kept going back.
But I don’t think it brings a lot of added value. There are many very very powerful IDEs and editors which offer out of the box great UX and feature discoverability. Hell, probably if IntelliJ toolset would allow me to customize it deeper with Lua/Lisp/JS/whatever I’d probably switch in a jiffy.
I compare Emacs to vinyls or paper books. It requires investment, in many cases it is worse than competition and requires more energy to just be on par. But it is absolutely lovable. Vinyl record comparison - they are expensive, heavy, require a lot of maintenance but for specific type of people it makes their heart skip a beat when they take it from the sleeve.
That’s why people are constantly talking about their Emacs. Same with vim or nvim. I rarely hear people talking with excitement about WebStorm or VS code.
So yeah, if you’re not into it just keep in mind that like some freak who spend their weekend on polishing rims of dream come true 1959 Fiat 500, some of us spend their time with Emacs.
Don’t get bullied into it, don’t get FOMO about it, but please don’t spoil our fun.
You’re always welcome to join in.
I disagree 100%.
Emacs is the best. I do not hesitate to recommend it. Will it work for you? I don't know. Might it be exactly what you were looking for? Yep! That's how it was for me: it gave me everything I ever wanted and more. Period.
SeqDesign commented on Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong? · Posted by u/coreyhn
Diet. I think everyone should do keto diet or carnivore. There is no "everbody has his own diet". It is a little bit strong, but I believe it to be true. Everything else is either addictive and harmful or doesn't have nutrients.
awful opinion! carnivore diet?? just awful