billwear

Live from my old college dorm room, with a dozen funny T-shirt slogans and an avatar with better hair.

"Yes, Emacs! Strange visitor from another subculture with powers and abilities far beyond those of plain-text code editors!"

there's still emacs.

"Don't be evil" comes to mind. I wonder if any company -- or for that matter, any software development organization, whether paid or volunteer -- can really avoid bad decisions when they get big?

early teaser!

(kebab-use-elisp)

hmm. company mode has been doing part of this job for a long time now.

suboptimization; learned about this in engineering school 40 years ago: don't optimize the most visible parameter by itself, or you'll likely end up crashing. why do we have to freaking rename everything?

looks like a trojan horse attack to me.

org-mode helps:

  6:50......TODO wake up
  7:00......TODO brb
  7:02......TODO catfood
  7:04......TODO fasting glucose
  7:05......TODO ketones
  7:06......TODO weight
  7:07......TODO hydrate
  7:08......TODO am meds
  7:10......TODO shower
  7:20......TODO hair
  7:22......TODO shave
  7:25......TODO teeth
  7:27......TODO deo
  7:28......TODO morning netty
  7:28......TODO wash netty
  7:33......TODO chg jeans (+3d)
  7:33......TODO dress
  7:38......TODO pockets
  7:42......TODO litter
  7:45......TODO bkfst/coffee
  8:00......TODO journal
  NB: this is a good time to
  apply the quiet art of attn
  (see my other HN post) and do
  your best to like or dislike
  current thought patterns
  8:15......TODO email
  8:30......TODO chats
  8:40......TODO calendar
  8:45......TODO planning
  9:00......TODO login/execute
 12:00......TODO lunch/nap
 18:00......TODO logoff
 18:10......TODO text friends

At 60, I applied to Canonical and got hired. The hiring process is thorough but very fair, all WFH, and they generally don't care about personal attributes. Gave me 20% above my asking price and a higher starting rank than expected.

forget benchmarks. use emacs lisp as a test case. i have yet to find an LLM that can consistently generate working functions in elisp (possibly even lisp itself).

good advice on the site CSS, meeting you halfway (black on white is too stark for my eyes, as it is for many people)

haven't read that book, but it's not unusual since language is finite.

you have described my experience succinctly and eloquently. it is a profound event that feels like a whole-body centering. thank you for this.

i usually post here first, and then add to the homepage later. i'll fix that next couple of days.

agree that the "clock of life" is a strange beast, when compared to the clock on the wall. i try to quit paying too much attention to the latter, and time becomes more nuanced and textured.

good points. the first could have been a better choice, or a better explanation. the second? that's a much longer piece about the three brains and how we integrate them.

that's the point: sometimes there is no tl;dr.

yes.

there are two: Pirsig's "Zen..." and Thoreau's "Walden...." the quality which is defined is not the quality, and the sun is but a morning star. iykyk. no posturing intended, just answering the d*n question.

nope. i think that might be just applicants, but i don't know anything about that, really.

thanks. would you settle for evil mode?

just an early teaser, but feel free to tear it up in the comments.

Emacs isn't really mobile yet.

Yeah, but weird, interesting byproducts. Whether we're better than the beef byproducts in bologna is still up for debate sometimes, I guess.

Just didn't have enough to say to pay all that for a big-ass server. GitHub mobile app means I can update my site while sitting in conferences listening to boring rehash speeches.

Guess it's time to cut and run. I've been mirroring Gmail with Proton paid for a couple of years now. Don't use the HTML version, but might as well kick Google to the curb.

might as well just rename it to "Deddit" and move on....

simply not true. i've tried several times to get ChatGPT to write working emacs lisp. it rarely can write anything long, even after i correct it five or six times. anything to push the price down and the profits up, i guess.