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As someone deeply invested in Emacs who had a short fling with Kakoune a few years ago I'm super curious how did you manage the transition? I have lots of notes in org-mode and rely on packages like Magit and so on, due to that I'm always wary of the fact that a lot of my computer use flows through Emacs (for better or worse).

Also one thing that intrigues me about Kakoune is the possibility of writing CLI utils in whatever language and then calling them from Kakoune. The same can be done from Emacs but generally you'd go for Elisp instead.

I've also found I miss fancier text decoration like subscripts, bold, italics, underline and mixing monospace with another font when not using Emacs.

Works on Android too when developing Dart applications and making use of flutter_rust_bridge though it's a bit of an involved setup to be honest.

I really hope more people will play around with iroh and build stuff especially because in the last year some things have been renamed in the API to be more clear and other stuff has been simplified e.g. see this blog post https://www.iroh.computer/blog/iroh-0-94-0-the-endpoint-take...

Reminds me of RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite) which I used to use a long time ago to do the same thing. One cool thing RES used to do was (if I remember right) when you clicked on the tag/note placed on the user it would take you to the comment when you first attributed that tag/note.

On one hand I kinda miss doing stuff like that and would like a RES for Hacker News but on the other hand I feel like cyber stalking is out of fashion these days.

Also engaging with others learning the same thing within the overall community is also tremendously helpful and accelerates learning. Though you need to get over the fear of asking silly or obvious in hindsight questions in the wrong Discord channel sometimes.

Yeah, I have a similar experience when I put the phone down for prolonged periods. Though I need to be mindful to not do the same stuff on the computer i.e. open Hacker News or other attention grabbing websites. For that stuff I find it useful to use any feature I can either in the browser or the desktop environment to separate work from leisure.

I keep hoping for something more radical like Jolla and SailfishOS taking off or postmarketOS becoming a true viable alternative but as things are looking like now there's a better chance we'll ditch phones altogether in 10 years when smart glasses will replace them instead.

I have their Pinecil and PinePower Desktop. They're really great products, I use the PinePower daily to charge my stuff at my desk and the Pinecil made soldering a joy, now I no longer dread it and can enjoy tinkering with hobby electronics again.

It's OK! We can disguise it as the Secretary Problem and it'll be fine, we could even write a post on the company blog about it. /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem

It runs fine for me on an old ThinkPad X220 loaded with 8 GB, an i5 and a barely working SATA SSD. This is on Fedora and Claude Code is installed from Anthropic's dnf repo (the latest channel). Granted I'm on the Pro Plan and I'm not running lots of sub agents but the default terminal app from KDE (Konsole) renders and keeps Claude Code responsive enough.

I must be honestly missing some key piece of workflow otherwise I don't know why it would run so slow for other people on better hardware? Granted I'm taking care to tell Claude to not exhaust CPU cores and make sure to not trigger OOM errors, akin to "make no mistakes pls".

Yeah, I'm actually excited about the Jolla phone supposed to launch in September. It's a bit on the expensive side but hopefully it will pave the way to a proper consumer friendly phone. Most of these phones comes with a gimmick too to make them more enticing but so far Sailfish OS is THE gimmick I'm actually excited about.

Obligatory reminder that you can clone a git repo around your local filesystem and so on too. Same goes for other git operations as well.

https://thehorrors.org.uk/snippets/git-local-filesystem-remo...

Same problem with the Play Store/Console if you're registering as an individual instead of a company to publish an app.

I'm a bit out of the loop but I checked out the GitHub repo [0] and while the authors moved onto Slint the crate is still actively maintained. That said I also looked at the latest commits and that threw me down a rabbit hole of finding out that the main maintainer has a blog where he wrote about using Sailfish OS as a daily driver [1] and imagine my surprise when he revealed that he actually co-maintains a Signal client app for SailfishOS too. I looked into the GitLab repo for that app [2] and I gleefully discovered that it's mostly written in Rust, the Cargo.toml contains a dependency to qmetaobject-rs too.

All that is to say that I'm glad there's another way to get Rust on mobile aside from stuff like flutter_rust_bridge.

[0] https://github.com/woboq/qmetaobject-rs

[1] https://www.rubdos.be/2026/04/17/my-sailfish-os-journey-apps...

[2] https://gitlab.com/whisperfish/whisperfish

I browse HN a bit more than I should and I see you and simonw around a lot, like you said always providing thoughtful commentary.

When I write comments on here I tend to spend upwards of 15 minutes to draft and reformulate my comments. Sometimes double-checking what I'm about to say (sometimes not thoroughly enough as some of my recent comments show) and I was wondering if you have a similar experience in that regard or do you just manage to fire off a comment in a stream of thought fashion from start to end?

For something like this on Android I've been using Twilight for years now.

Yeah, it's the same thing with self-hosting email. The technical side is documented and the tradeoffs are well known. It's the up front effort of migration, maintenance and mails landing in spam that gets people down and so on. Though once you get going it's supposed to become easier with time.

Also there's a spectrum from Gmail to Fastmail to AWS SES to Wireguard on a VPS that's tunneling to a server running at home. And when the people from both extremes of the spectrum interact they look at each other as if they're from other planets.

It's the same for Auth stuff I believe, almost a decade of generic advice like "don't roll your own auth" has lead some people to file it into a tidy corner of their mind labelled "DON'T TOUCH" so most people end up gawking and staring in awe when someone does so and lose all nuance along the way. To be clear I'm advocating for learning how stuff works and playing around with it (time permitting) instead of simply delegating it to the technical equivalent of Higher Powers in perpetuity.

Thank you for clarifying and sharing the full blog post! It was actually an error on my part because until now I didn't realize that the S-series base model and the Ultra model actually share the same CPU. I should've checked my assumptions first.

I also saw you addressed in your blog post the growing market for refurbished phones and in the last year or so I've noticed a similar thing in Romania where a e-commerce giant is involved with a company that refurbishes and resells old user devices to try and corner a big piece of the pre-owned (second-hand) market where previously you'd be stuck hunting for good deals on the national Craigslist equivalent or searching for small-ish repair shops that sold refurbished devices.

At first I wanted to make a silly joke along the lines of "get your agents in line and behaving!" but as I read on it became a pretty scary situation.

Setting aside the potential supply chain attack I'm worried about the time lost going around these wild goose chases that unsupervised AI agents tend to throw other people on the receiving end on. Not only is there a lot of time lost on the maintainers side if they take this stuff seriously (and they seem to generally do) but on the side of the agents' wrangler how can they deem it OK to treat other people like this? While the solution would be to employ common decency, the tried and tested approach of you put in effort to write this so I guess I'll make some effort to read it, I feel that due to the onslaught of this kind of drive-by contributions (I think people have generally started to call them) will lead to a funny situation of having agents talk to each other on public forums basically.

Anyway, I went on a tangent but man the times we're living in are a bit extra wild compared to the previous wild times in recent history.

Yeah but at least now we don't argue about Bootstrap or Foundation, it's just go with Tailwind.

I still remember when a good chunk of the web took Bootstrap's defaults and ran with it.

That said I've still got a bone to pick with Tailwind but I understand it's a good compromise in a world where BEM and CUBE and other methodologies require more effort up front and if done incorrectly impose a bigger burden.

Oh, I know it's not the point but I find it a bit disingenuous going from iPhone base model to the Pro in the last 3 years and still comparing to the base model Samsung S series. Though maybe I'm missing something non obvious.

But yeah, generally I've seen a better experience buying used phones (in good condition) instead of budget/cheap new ones.

Yeah, but draconian laws aside (I jest a bit) if you can ensure safety for kids (and clumsy adults) visiting factories and NUCLEAR plants I guess you could manage the same for data centers and deal with a reasonable number of headaches.

Yeah, I generally dislike platitudes yet "one bad apple spoils the bunch" seems to apply more often than not sadly.

I think organizations like KDE (during the Akademy) and LibreOffice still run those during the last day of their conferences?

I had the chance to attend the LibreOffice one back in 2023 but life got in the way and I missed it sadly.

Long shot here because I'm not knowledgeable enough about CRDTs but maybe something like DSON would help? I saw a talk about it a while ago and it might be useful.

https://blog.helsing.ai/posts/dson-a-delta-state-crdt-for-re...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QkLD7JhD_I&pp=ygUJZHNvbiBjc...

Yeah, that's on me. Thanks for clearing this up. I hope my previous comment didn't come across as doubling down on my mistake!

Now after our interaction I don't worry that much that Obsidian is closed source, it's clear that it's in the right hands.

Also I want to say that I hope JSON Canvas catches on, initially I was worried that the Canvas feature would lead to a "soft lockdown" but it isn't the case and I've found out about it recently. Thank you for the work that went into it!

Something something wasting machine cycles with a compiler.

Something something taking the crafts and the man out of craftsmanship to just get it out the door as quickly as possible.

All jest aside I mostly agree with you but I'd tack on another 20 years for a total of 30.

Though in this technological jump I don't think people are as excited (understandably) as when the teletype came on scene. I too like the potential but dislike the whole discourse around it, the ethics involved and the way it's deployed. Such is life I suppose.

My bad! I've mixed up some parts from this official blog post[0] and some talk in the community.

I thought the "What does it mean for a plugin to be Paid or have Optional Payments?" part from the FAQ was hinting towards the chance for people to sell plugins on https://community.obsidian.md/ and Obsidian itself would facilitate the transaction for a small cut at some point in the future.

I'm glad that's not the case and I apologize again for the confusion though I hope it's clear now why I believed this in the first place.

[0] https://obsidian.md/blog/future-of-plugins/

Hi! Not the OP but I've used Obsidian since before 2020 till about 2022 when I switched to org-mode and Emacs.

I like the new Obsidian features like the CLI a lot but I still feel Obsidian inherently is incredibly similar to org-mode and Emacs (guess that's why I was drawn to both) in the sense that both work with local data and file formats that usually can be opened in any text editor but both of them bolt so much stuff on top that the files themselves (markdown or org) become incredibly coupled and hard to use by themselves.

Now of course in Obsidian's case you're not forced to install a lot of plugins that lead to this issue but I don't know a lot of people that have the diligence to keep their notes "light". Though if I remember from your blog post showcasing how you do note-taking you might qualify.

And then it's also the fact that you've got a powerful piece of kit and now you're not supposed to mold it to your needs and preferences and avoid driving it hard, instead you're forced to practice discipline. Sure, there's something to be said for that too but that's besides the point.

If I understood correctly Obsidian is readying for a plugin marketplace akin to the Unity Asset Store and I'm personally thinking this might drive you to monetize Obsidian harder even though you've shown throughout the years you're a great steward of it.

To get to the point finally I guess people are worried that because Obsidian itself is not open source at some point it might evolve in a way that becomes incompatible with most peoples' preferences and for me that's where something like org-mode and Emacs inch ahead because it's FOSS.

That said thank you for Obsidian. It was my entry point towards clearer thinking and brought a semblance of structure when I needed it most. I don't use it anymore but I watch enthusiastically from the sidelines.

tl;dr the chance of a paid plugin marketplace might signal a shift in the community

Oh... I didn't realize, thanks for clarifying!

Oops, my bad! Thanks for correcting!