lemontheme (u/lemontheme)

lemontheme commented on VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot heise.de/en/news/VS-Code-... · Posted by u/sagischwarz

Surac · a day ago

can anyone recomend a alternative that is easy to install and also offers syntax highlighting? i have read about lazyvim and neovim, but both have extensive install requirments as i have read

lemontheme · a day ago

For TUI, Helix has a lovely out-of-the-box experience. What little config there is (two TOML files) is relatively easy to grasp. The main barrier you'll face is setting up your LSPs, which need to be installed manually. (Luckily, there's `uvx -q` for Python LSPs.)

For GUI, Zed is also really nice, has a great Vim mode, and auto-installs anything you might need. It loses a couple of points to VS Code on account of not being arbitrarily extensible, although that can also be seen as a plus, as it prevents extensions from randomly slowing everything down.

lemontheme commented on Show HN: Microlandia, a brutally honest city builder microlandia.city... · Posted by u/phaser

lemontheme · 13 days ago

macOS and controller support. Nice!

That's what I've spent the past two years hoping for from Urbek City Builder, whose art style this immediately reminded me of. If you haven't already (which would surprise me), definitely check out Urbek. It's such a fun puzzle game, but development seems to have stalled.

Anyway, buying this right away, if only for the Microslop license.

Edit: I'm 2 hours in. Really fun vibe with a nice soundtrack. Still figuring out why my factory and farms aren't attracting more workers. And I wish I could see the buses drive around (after making public transport free). After bankrupting my first two cities, I'm finally profitable. The trick, it seems: low corporate tax, high income tax.

lemontheme commented on Israeli-founded app preloaded on Samsung phones is attracting controversy sammobile.com/news/israel... · Posted by u/croes

amarcheschi · a month ago

I mean, it's literally the same thing that happens when past genocides are bad, but when they happen today from an ally of the west... "it's complicated". Except this time happens on the technological side rather than the humanitarian one

lemontheme · a month ago

Well, that same ally has also been doing a bit of genocide on the humanitarian side lately, just so we’re clear on the facts

lemontheme commented on Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring kubernetes.dev/blog/2025/... · Posted by u/TheApplicant

wg0 · a month ago

Kubernetes is never maturing. It keeps moving. An installation just a year ago would have things that would require significant planning to upgrade.

What is missing is an open source orchestrator that has a feature freeze and isn't Nomad or docker swarm.

lemontheme · a month ago

Just out of curiosity, what's wrong with either of those two?

lemontheme commented on Moderna has unraveled statnews.com/2025/10/30/m... · Posted by u/toomanyrichies

silisili · 2 months ago

As a data point, my experience with the shot was a sore arm and chills for a couple days.

When I got Covid later, it was slightly worse chills for 3 days. By the 4th time I got Covid, it was just chills for a day.

If I knew that would be the experience, I'd probably have skipped it. That said, it's completely possible it was having the vaccine that made getting real Covid not so bad.

lemontheme · 2 months ago

By the time it was my turn to get Covid I’d been twice vaccinated. It’s the most exhausted I can remember ever feeling. Let me tell you, the whole time I kept thinking: How much more miserable would this have been without the vaccine to blunt the impact? Felt grateful and humbled

lemontheme commented on Environment variables are a legacy mess: Let's dive deep into them allvpv.org/haotic-journey... · Posted by u/signa11

aleksandrm · 2 months ago

That was a hard to read font.

lemontheme · 2 months ago

Huh... Guess it's what you're used to.

First thing that struck me about the site is how beautiful I found it. I even inspected the font: Iosevka Web, apparently.

lemontheme commented on Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS github.com/acsandmann/rif... · Posted by u/atticus_

cipehr · 2 months ago

Having just gone through really yak shaving Aerospace into a spot that I'm happy with, I'm curious how folks on here manage having so many overlapping keyboard shortcuts?

Maybe it's just me, but I want to map to many things to some combination of hjkl just for the ergonomics...

Aerospace's modal feature sort helps solve that shortcut conflict... How are others dealing with this?

lemontheme · 2 months ago

They’re not, is the impression I get. I usually run into a shortcut conflict within the first few minutes of actual day-to-day use.

I switched to Aerospace about a year ago. I hide everything behind a leader key: alt+space. That brings me into Aerospace’s normal mode. I have a few alt-shortcuts there for quick access: e.g. alt-{hjkl} for moving between panes. But most things are in a dedicated mode. I have a ‘go-to’ mode and a ‘move-to’ mode. Once in either mode, pressing any letter or number will go to/move a pane to space corresponding to the letter/number. So for instance, if I want to move my terminal to space ‘t’ then I type `alt+space g t`. To move to the space I type `alt+space m t`.

I’ve been enjoying this setup because it feels like a natural extension of my terminal setup: zellij/tmux with leader key ctrl+space and helix (also modal) inside.

One thing I constantly struggle with in Aerospace, though, is its tendency to keep windows hidden after switching screens. You have to hunt for them in the bottom-right corner and just hope you can drag them back into view.

lemontheme commented on Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based zed.dev/blog/pricing-chan... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

lemontheme · 3 months ago

Since the VC investment by Sequoia I’ve had my doubts about Zed. For one thing, a certain high-profile member of that VC publicly promotes a worldview that does not align with mine. For another, I’ve had it with my favorite products constantly enshittifying. I’d always seen my subscription more as a recurring donation toward development anyway, so I canceled it.

That said, Zed continues to impress. The editor itself, the technical blog posts, the introduction of new standards like ACP, fair pricing – all paint a picture of a talented, stand-up group of people.

So I welcome this new pricing, although like others I’m confused why I would pay 10% extra if I can BYOK.

Honestly, I wish I could just pay for Zed as a regular user. After all, I pay for Pycharm even though I don’t use it that much these days. I want to be a paying user so that Zed’s incentives align with mine, not with some big corpo’s. But perhaps that sort of thinking is detached from the reality of building a viable business around an editor…

lemontheme commented on Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based zed.dev/blog/pricing-chan... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

agrippanux · 3 months ago

Their burn agent mode is pretty badass, but is super costly to run.

I'm a big fan of Zed but tbf I'm just using Claude Code + Nvim nowadays. Zed's problem with their Claude integration is that it will never be as good as just using the latest from Claude Code.

lemontheme · 3 months ago

Same except with Helix.

The integration in Zed is limited by what the Claude Code SDK exposes. Since about half of the /commands are missing from the SDK, they don’t show up in Zed.

I think ACP was a good strategic move by Zed, but all I personally really need is Claude Code in a terminal pane with diffs of proposed edits in the absolutely wonderful multibuffer view

lemontheme commented on Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed zed.dev/blog/claude-code-... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

dcre · 3 months ago

Glad to see this out so quickly. Like I said[0] on the Gemini announcement post, it feels like Zed is trying to get out of the business of iterating on agent logic and just let other people handle it. Any prompting secret sauce a) is trivial to copy, and b) gets eaten by the next model generation anyway. The capabilities of Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, etc. seem to me to be converging.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45045515

lemontheme · 3 months ago

Plausible take. My first time using a coding agent was with Zed’s. As a sceptic, I was blown away. Two or weeks later Claude Code dropped and I haven’t used the Zed agent since. I canceled my subscription because 20 EUR/month for AI features I no longer use felt silly. And with the massive investment from Sequoia, and the real possibility of enshittification, I couldn’t mentally classify it as a monthly ‘donation’ to sponsor ongoing development either.

That last part is just me maybe. But I’m sure they poured a lot of time into their (granted, very nice) agent, only for many users to switch to Claude shortly after release. Letting others build the agent but being the place where the agent get used seems like a smart move