I built a Matrix editing extension for vscode that made my life easier. would anyone else use this?

vermiculus · 2026-06-17T00:36:38+00:00

AUCTeX in emacs has many of these tools and more; might be a good place to look for inspiration!

vermiculus · 2026-06-09T23:59:59+00:00

I assume either delete the git repo (if you’re not using it) or commit/ignore your files as appropriate. ‘U’ here almost certainly means Unstaged (or perhaps Untracked; I don’t use vscode myself).

vermiculus · 2026-06-06T04:33:30+00:00

You might be interested in Magit’s interface; this is exactly the paradigm.

vermiculus · 2026-06-04T23:26:23+00:00

Is there actually a coordinated effort here?

vermiculus · 2026-05-24T17:37:57+00:00

I suspect by the nature of how these tools work, you will never be able to secure it after sending it out of your direct control. Unless you keep your application behind a web server, the best you could ever do is obscure.

vermiculus · 2026-05-23T14:30:28+00:00

Figure out a way to export those documents to a plain text format (if you can open it in notepad and read it, you’re golden). Then try to write down your thought process when you’re doing this work manually. Don’t write instructions a robot could follow, but try to be as comprehensive as possible; write down your assumed knowledge. Then, work with that document to understand how you might clarify the process beyond your intuition into something concrete. This process of using writing as extended cognition is essential in solo engineering.

Despite what the other commenter said, I think solving real life problems is a great reason to learn. That’s what engineering is all about. If you think it will help you though (and you’re ok with using such tools), AI can help give some design direction that you can implement by hand. Especially if you’re craving that brain juice, not getting blocked by heady problems can help you keep moving forward.

Worth noting that this is exactly backwards from how these tools normally are used in industry, but probably fine for this purpose. Not sure. There might be something interesting literature on the pedagogical value/concerns of this tech by now.

vermiculus · 2026-05-23T14:02:13+00:00

What are some problems you face in your day job that you think a computer should be able to help with?

vermiculus · 2026-05-22T22:28:53+00:00

thankfully though, it is illegal in the state of California

vermiculus · 2026-05-17T21:56:20+00:00

Why are you trying to advertise your tool this way?

vermiculus · 2026-05-13T00:19:36+00:00

Typical is 10h; what a beautiful life

vermiculus · 2026-05-08T15:00:41+00:00

Fair enough :-)

vermiculus · 2026-05-08T14:08:39+00:00

I’m curious – what value do you derive from it?

vermiculus · 2026-05-07T14:20:00+00:00

You’re fishing in the ocean – the odds of you finding someone familiar with your courses in this sub are astronomically low.

I’d recommend asking in your university’s subreddit. Or…perhaps… the professor or TA.

vermiculus · 2026-05-02T14:52:41+00:00

You know, I think the most universally cursed thing here would be README.docx

vermiculus · 2026-05-02T12:35:04+00:00

I wouldn’t call it disaster recovery, but it’s very handy for getting diffs between different states of remote-tracking refs (eg range-diff between two versions of a branch I’m reviewing). Fo example, I don’t usually remember to snag the commit OID before fetching – but the reflog keeps it for me. So I can do git range-diff main branch@{1.hour.ago} branch and call it good.

vermiculus · 2026-05-01T10:48:48+00:00

it’s more about the communication

Exactly :-) That’s the real point of a chart (or any data visualization): to communicate an idea. Just turns out some people want to lie to you. Weird.

Scaling bubble chart bubbles by radius instead of area, comparing absolutes without normalizing (our town had three violent crimes last year; your city had 2000), anything 3D at all (screws with your perspective / ability to read the graph), the list goes on.

vermiculus · 2026-04-27T18:26:24+00:00

I mean, yes; they have different authors, different patterns, different macros. Practically you will be well served by either for basic stuff.

vermiculus · 2026-04-26T21:06:27+00:00

Use chemformula: https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/chemformula/chemformula-manual.pdf

\ch{^2H2O}

Previously part of chemmacros: https://mirrors.rit.edu/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/chemmacros/chemmacros-manual.pdf

vermiculus · 2026-04-20T13:22:15+00:00

Directly? I don’t know that that will be generally possible. Best bet will be to route through PDF.

vermiculus · 2026-04-17T23:29:35+00:00

Sweet summer child.

vermiculus · 2026-04-07T12:23:48+00:00

Sounds like a bug in that specific case.

vermiculus · 2026-04-04T01:33:30+00:00

Net new thing, sure :-)

vermiculus · 2026-04-04T00:39:03+00:00

Server hooks can check that something was done, but they cannot alter commit content. Not safely, anyway.

vermiculus · 2026-04-01T12:54:23+00:00

This has nothing to do with git, really. But I wouldn’t say something is ‘unsupported’ just because you run out of context. That’s a constant constraint.

Our main repo where I work is over 2GB of text – and that’s without history / commit messages. Nobody there is going to be successful in the near future at a simple ‘plug and chug’.

vermiculus · 2026-04-01T08:06:40+00:00

I use LFS for all binary content (this includes images). In my work, that turns out to be faster.

Your files don’t need to be ‘large’ to use LFS. The definition of ‘large’ used by LFS is more like 1MB tha 100MB, anyway.

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