The old religious war: vim vs emacs.

The new religious war: vim/emacs vs VSCode!

#vim #emacs #unix

You have no idea the degree of pain it will cause in the valley if Europe just replaces all their shit with commodity stuff. They think they're a lot more special and clever and irreplaceable than they actually are.

Nix is the Emacs of devops

you guys know you can write your own options in nixos config right

Windows 11 sounds hellish. If you want to try out Linux I'll gladly help you.

Bending Emacs - Episode 02: From vanilla to your flavor YouTube video by xenodium

Let's do this again!

Bending Emacs - Episode 2: From vanilla to your flavor

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTum...

#emacs #linux #macos #oss #foss

Horrifying realization: Emacs is exactly what I wish obsidian could be

"Our app has a builtin panopticon that watches everything you do for our secret all-seeing uncaring machine. If you want to opt out please set the env var PANOPTICON_ON=false to reduce the stream of outbound data to INFO instead of DEBUG log level. Internet connection always required for our app."

We need to stop talking about <the war> in Gaza - there is no war

Israel is not taking casualties, it is driving civilians in front of a terror machine and making a wasteland of all and any territory it clears to present a fait accompli that it hopes will lead to flight of the civilian population

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

A world in which the Chinese Communist Party adheres more closely to evidence led policy making than the British Conservative Party. A national embarrassment.

My first Emacs video now has 500 views and 100 subscribers 🥹 🥲 😊

www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Nt...

#emacs #ffmpeg #llm #ai #claude #linux #macos #oss #foss

A twitter user “Sridhar Ratnakumar” @sridca writing: Nix users have had enough. And this is a well-written “fuck you” to wokies. And links a discourse post by sielicki

The Discourse post by a sockpuppet account that has no searchable Github profile and a hidden Discourse profile is now paraded by the anti-woke crowd on fascism central

We need to burn the Discourse down.
#nixos #nix

I really wish more people would use asciidoc.

Markdown was a huge mistake

Isn’t it neat that Elixir’s AST is valid Elixir?
What other languages besides Lisp can claim that?

Greenspun's 10th rule has a corollary on editors: any sufficiently complicated user interface contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Emacs.

Peter Mandelson can sit as a Labour Lord while my colleagues have lost the whip for opposing disability benefits cuts and the two-child benefit cap.

Such draconian, politically-motivated suspensions undermine democracy and make a mockery of our party. They should have the whip restored immediately.

The “command palette”, the newest, hottest invention in UI. Is in fact at least as old as Emacs and Vi (that's the 1970s, for those in the back). It wasn't called that way, of course. Emacs's command palette even lets you enter entire programs.

met an emacs user at metalab; within 3 minutes they said "i've used emacs for my init system" 😭

Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting Brazil coup Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting Brazil coup

Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What if you do it in nix tho git.sr.ht/~johnhamelin...

Conservatives' calls for compassion in the face of Charlie Kirk’s assassination were strangely striking, precisely because they (and he) have spent countless hours letting us know that they believe compassion is a character flaw and a cultural danger.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-right-...

Anything on BEAM, with Elixir being my fave. Nix is definitely a current favourite to work with because of the superpowers it brings. If I could wave a magic wand then I’d transplant the nix ecosystem into guix.

Couldn't make it to #NixCon this year? You can still enjoy all of our talks with our live streams! 2025.nixcon.org/live

Chill music to wake to courtesy stream.place (AKA not twitch.tv) stream.place/@thelotradio...

emacs kind of confirms my bias against constantly reinventing the wheel with new languages, frameworks, and software.

What if we just kept improving what we already had? Instead of constantly reinventing the wheel? (*glares at web frameworks*) :P