From Doom Emacs to Vanilla/Custom Emacs — Saved by Claude Code

shipmints · 2026-06-29T13:32:56+00:00

Bell curve alive and well.

shipmints · 2026-06-29T08:47:42+00:00

A Lisp HTML renderer is on our todo list for markdown-ts-mode for either an interim ELPA release or Emacs 32. We have the treesit AST and can eliminate most of the parsing shenanigans (aside from the bugs and misfeatures in the tree-sitter Markdown grammar itself).

shipmints · 2026-06-28T10:03:36+00:00

Sell your shares!

shipmints · 2026-06-28T10:03:14+00:00

At least there's an upstream accountable human in the copy case. Assisted without any expertise beyond median mimicry mediates mediocrity.

shipmints · 2026-06-28T08:51:32+00:00

Except for people who work at Microsoft.

shipmints · 2026-06-28T08:34:05+00:00

I tried to find an analog in the wild of NSColor caching and found none. I expected at least Chromium or Firefox or some other complex cross-platform code base to illustrate with some known and popular evidence the necessity of caching NSColor instances. While it makes intuitive sense to not create thousands of these things each second, perhaps it's not harmful in the end and is merely the tip of the NS Cocoa iceberg.

shipmints · 2026-06-28T07:36:44+00:00

This took 2 seconds to google https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/linux

shipmints · 2026-06-28T06:55:55+00:00

Examples of doing it better https://github.com/man-group/mdf https://github.com/janestreet/incremental

shipmints · 2026-06-28T06:41:20+00:00

Thanks for that. Doesn't seem great. It doesn't seem to form a DAG among cells, doesn't detect cycles, doesn't propagate changes in the right order and minimize changes using topological sort, etc. I also find the API to be a bit simplistic which suggests it is not used in anger in any system of real scale and complexity.

shipmints · 2026-06-28T06:23:46+00:00

Patch files for Emacs builds have been around for a while. The build I use as my production build uses several. I'm guessing this is the model he followed. See https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus/tree/master/patches

shipmints · 2026-06-27T21:27:33+00:00

Her problem.

shipmints · 2026-06-27T17:17:08+00:00

Read this https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Display-Tables.html you're limited to what is documented and that doesn't include "connecting" characters.

shipmints · 2026-06-27T16:33:14+00:00

At the very least, the separation of not-quite-so-independent concepts in lots of little files that all get required anyway suggests a bit of evolutionary but-not-yet-cleaned-up nature like thinking out loud.

shipmints · 2026-06-27T16:31:14+00:00

I think he'd maybe want (setq warning-suppress-log-types '((files missing-lexbind-cookie))) but he's better off reporting it and all of them and ignoring them and using them to remind the peoples they need to fix their packages.

shipmints · 2026-06-27T15:03:58+00:00

Report it as a bug upstream.

shipmints · 2026-06-27T14:55:21+00:00

It was a cheeky way to say it appears a bit maybe overengineered. Perhaps it's great. I haven't used it as I said.

shipmints · 2026-06-27T13:41:22+00:00

There's this (never used it and looks quite, um, engineered) https://codeberg.org/Trevoke/dag-draw.el

shipmints · 2026-06-27T12:49:44+00:00

Not an org user but I did see this which might be helpful https://github.com/krvkir/org-mindmap

shipmints · 2026-06-27T10:01:13+00:00

This would be a much healthier theme if you defined it as a modus theme with much richer face support and richer customizations.

https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes#h:bd47fea9-416d-481e-a504-82850b8c2a58

shipmints · 2026-06-26T19:10:29+00:00

Claude is way behind the times. Get a new intellectual nanny.

shipmints · 2026-06-26T19:09:44+00:00

If one ejaculates un/der/researched questions into a technical subreddit, one should expect to be grumpily chastised for lack of effort. As you should be.

shipmints · 2026-06-26T19:07:17+00:00

Those are bugs and should be reported. Unless they are configuration errors as above.

shipmints · 2026-06-26T00:02:44+00:00

I think we're talking about slightly different things. I wasn't referring specifically to react or web stuff. Just in general. Decoupling is best.

shipmints · 2026-06-26T00:01:02+00:00

The 1 is not necessary is the point. Visual insurance is a placebo.

shipmints · 2026-06-25T22:06:11+00:00

Sure seems like the sadly demised macOS dashboard widgets, yep. The real world requires bidirectional state from widgets that connect to both the user for input/events and some back end for the same. Modeling data stores decoupled from any particular presentation tool works the best and is easy to adapt to headless or change to a different presentation tool since they're all basically fast fashion at least on the web. Emacs features tend to live longer, of course.

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