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Cool. I'm also working on a Scheme compiler for embedding. Bytecode VM as well as AOT compilation to Zig. 100% written by Claude Opus under my supervision and guidance. I've given it an extensive set of tests and benchmarks (r5rs and r7rs) which helps A LOT. I currently use it embedded in a modal prose editor, mostly running integration tests for now.

https://codeberg.org/sicher/zscheme

MCP is a fad 6 months ago

Funny that the "What is MCP?" section doesn't even explain what the acronym stands for... (I genuinely have no clue)

I would prefer higher dpi too. If someone would make a hidpi square (ish) screen I would buy it in a heartbeat. The Huawei Mateview looks great but can't swivel to portrait, unfortunately.

I used to run a 16:9 vertically for writing so I got one of these and love it.

The only issue is that I needed to install BetterDisplay (former BetterDummy) to get retina scaling from my macbook pro M1 . Dunno why macOS doesn't support it natively since it has the same PPI as a 32" 4k screen.

I’m halfway through my second novel. Both in very barebones markdown (using pretty much only headings). Plain text is a blessing. I can keep everything in git, searching in emacs with swiper is fantastic (and good search is a must as the material grows) and any tool I lack I can hack together.

I have worked extensively on the documentation for the Defold game engine (see https://www.defold.com/learn/). Here's a few things we've done:

We use Google tracking on the site. That helps a bit. We have search available on the site and we get the most useful information from how people use the search function. We get clues as to what users are looking for, what terminology they use and I use that to make sure common searches turn out good information.

I added a "Have a suggestion?" button at the bottom of each page. You have to be logged in to see it (because of bots) but it allows you to mark text directly on the page and then report errors and suggestions. We get a lot of feedback through it, much, much, much more than before when we relied on users sending their feedback or stopping by to talk.

Sublime is a great example of users getting update fever. The forum is riddled with long ”is this software dead?” threads that pop up at regular intervals.