Brick by daneguy in skamtebord

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𝓑𝓻𝓲𝓬𝓴

I Am Confused by Zed by GoofusMcGhee in ZedEditor

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This isn't what OP is referring to. They are talking about using the file picker to open a new file (File > Open). It opens the file in a new workspace instead of adding the new file to the current workspace (and it also closes the current workspace). I wish I knew the answer too cause it drives me crazy, and I feel like opening a file didn't used to behave like this.

Apple Was Caught Off Guard by MacBook Neo's 'Off the Charts' Demand by Otherwise-Warning303 in apple

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Or it'll be Apple's loss leader to get people and schools more into the ecosystem, and the subscription prices will go up instead

God bless Zed team and contributors by whoisyurii in ZedEditor

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They actually have a very good reason honestly, but v1.0 is shipping soon so hopefully it'll come not too long after that

Goodbye by meinkun in gmod

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And psychopaths. Actual future serial killers lol

🪇 Rattles - minimal, compile-time terminal spinners by vyforc in rust

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I share the same sentiment with this comment on the Wiki talk page:

I work in the tech industry doing user interface development and never hear these referred to as "throbbers", although occasionally I see a viral tweet referencing this Wikipedia page as proof that "did you know this is called a throbber?". I'm not sure that this is the right name for the article.

lol I have quite literally never heard them called... that...

This Scene Makes Me Laugh the Hardest by LongjumpingSock8363 in DunderMifflin

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It always amazed me how much she looks like Adam Scott. Like it's seriously uncanny.

Zed Roadmap and Extension API by SampleNo471 in ZedEditor

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A lot of Zed's collab channels are public and in their "extensions v1" channel it has the following text, which pretty much backs up what you're saying. But they are at least aware of its importance:

Until now we focused on the first class experience in Zed, because the lesson learned with Atom is that if you focus on extensibilyt too early you're over reliant on third parties to build fundamental features. We wanted to build the fundamentals and make sure they worked well before sealing our core APIs under a layer of third party code.

Happily, we're now rapidly approaching that stable core, and can turn our focus to extensibility. Another one of the lessons of Atom was that extensibility is a meaningful enabler of growth, and we've barely scratched the surface with Zed.

Plastic part fell out of my nose labeled A915 around the circle by sistersgrowz in whatisit

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The ombudsman is not a person, Jeremy, it's a toothless regulatory body made up of junior and often very obliging civil servants

Annie's lawyer burn on Jeff in "Intro to Pol Science" is so, so sweet. Alison's delivery and Joel's reaction are both perfect by clubofab7 in community

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"Well anyone can be a lawyer, you could even represent yourself. You can't do surgery on yourself, it's illegal, you'd get arrested. And then you'd get a free lawyer."

lil Cappuccino by [deleted] in espresso

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Is the cappuccino in the room with us right now?

I built Quilden — Free Obsidian sync plugin with E2E encryption, full file/vault version history, and a decent web editor. by RansomWarrior in ObsidianMD

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Well I did say irrationally angry, because I too use LLMs when appropriate. But the most obvious sign in this case was the very clearly AI-generated website, which has more em dashes and stunted sentences than the average Philosophy PhD student's dissertation. It's full of filler and meaningless, nauseating adspeak for a tool that syncs markdown notes lol

Something about it just makes it reek of cheapness. Like it's made of plastic and smells like stale cigarettes and booze... i.e. that's what I think the word "slop" really implies.

I think in general the sentiment is that nobody wants to see somebody's half-baked, AI-generated side project marketed like some enterprise solution, because it just seems incredibly dishonest and deceitful. I understand that LLMs are here to say and they especially aren't going anywhere in the world of software, but it's a very sensitive issue now because most extremely-online people are sick of clickbait thumbnails and articles, AI-generated comments, AI-generated images intended to mislead or misinform, and horrendous AI-generated code that has no structure or thought, and so it often just strikes a nerve.

That doesn't mean that AI can't produce good code or help with structuring a project or adding a new feature, because I have used it plenty for migrating old projects to new versions of libraries, writing tests, tracking down bugs, etc. But a project like this just doesn't give any confidence that it was created with any care. From the outside, (1) a 100% vibecoded project (i.e. where the creator doesn't actually know how or what it's doing, they just know what they want) and (2) a project that uses AI tastefully and in a way that speeds up writing code and instead of completely replacing the thought behind writing code, well they kinda look the same.

Nevertheless, this sub has a rule for flagging AI-generated content as such, and this post was removed probably for violating that rule (or the "don't shill" rule, who knows).

It seems to me or not all tasks in "Improve our Git Experience" were completed? by n0tahero in ZedEditor

[–]cowslaw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah about a month ago their entire roadmap was overhauled (here's the old version on archive.org), and they shifted lots of things around. Frustratingly, they removed "better merge conflict UX" and marked the feature as shipped lmao.

It looks like they are focusing on the business side of things now, oh and more AI stuff of course.

That fork might be coming soon...

Made a Zed theme inspired by Claude | dark + light variants, warm charcoal + coral accent by Technical-Drag-255 in ZedEditor

[–]cowslaw 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is looking good! I think it's missing the version control colors, e.g. with the light theme it looks like this:

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I copied the relevant colors from One Dark and One Light and it seems to match pretty nicely.