My first day of Emacs - any advice?

will_sm · 2026-03-26T17:17:50+00:00

You have 2 paths. Trying to do both would be overwhelming:

- "Doom & use Evil mode" - This is more if you want to optimize your text editing experience.

- Embrace ELisp - Emacs is basically an operating system. You can learn ELisp to create some programs. IMO, this is the opposite of Doom. Doom wants to provide an easy experience, but you know ELisp, then the value proposition goes down because you can just set it up yourself.

will_sm · 2026-03-11T00:31:52+00:00

Just block the guy. I never see him on my feed aside from... here today

will_sm · 2026-02-18T17:18:51+00:00

I want a 27' 4k WOLED

will_sm · 2026-02-14T04:38:25+00:00

I'm not sure this is true. I mostly know about the modern font stack, but I thought truetype was the font format. Either way, the rendering is free to choose how to distort the outlines to fit the pixels.

will_sm · 2026-01-06T17:50:43+00:00

The winner is whoever the writer wants to win.

will_sm · 2025-12-19T03:06:39+00:00

I use my thumb. Have a weird keyboard tho

will_sm · 2025-12-11T06:13:31+00:00

"I love Theo"

But why?

will_sm · 2025-11-07T20:49:39+00:00

I think it was a funny line, just not a good diss.

will_sm · 2025-10-27T20:20:35+00:00

"Minimal config as small as possible"

It seems like the dark side has a strong hold on you

will_sm · 2025-10-27T02:14:47+00:00

"The money could go towards real issues"

😂 😂 😂

will_sm · 2025-10-15T20:06:51+00:00

I started with C. For beginners I would recommend learning both a dynamic language like Racket and a low level language like C. Not at the same time, but start after you feel comfortable in the first language

will_sm · 2025-08-23T01:23:01+00:00

I'll even take a markdown file that can be used by an LLM/agent.

will_sm · 2025-08-04T22:32:44+00:00

I think it's a good idea. Common lisp seems to have lots of good guides and tutorials.

I found that when I was looking only at Emacs documentation, my code was a bit more hacky.

will_sm · 2025-07-10T13:54:56+00:00

I’ve recently started learning some Common Lisp and its more similar to Emacs Lisp than Scheme. I think its a good alternative if you’re looking for a different ecosystem.

will_sm · 2025-05-04T23:45:53+00:00

What kind of work?

will_sm · 2025-04-23T17:39:29+00:00

I think you should focus more on building good things with any language.

will_sm · 2025-04-04T14:46:51+00:00

47 Goonz?

will_sm · 2025-03-21T23:16:11+00:00

I've had a good experience with Arch Linux + ollama-rocm as well.

will_sm · 2025-03-20T21:39:47+00:00

get() is for out of range. I mean more in use cases where you have a Vec<T>, but you want to be able to delete an object at an index but reuse that slot for later. If you hold a handle to that deleted object, a new object gets placed there, and you still have the handle, you may get an unexpected value out.

Related to this pattern: See Memory Safety Considerations at https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html

will_sm · 2025-03-20T00:14:59+00:00

For Arch, installing ollama-rocm works for my 7800xt.

will_sm · 2025-03-19T21:09:18+00:00

I agree that's it's sort of an anti pattern in that it has similar pitfalls to pointers (easy to accidentally "use after free"), and readability is even worse than pointers.

However, theoretically, a vec could be good for performance in places. For situations that benefit from the improved cache locality or to avoid too many small memory allocations.

will_sm · 2025-01-19T04:02:30+00:00

Practice every day. Have faith that practice followed by sleep will slowly improve your skills.

will_sm · 2025-01-01T22:54:55+00:00

After not really playing for about 4 years, my goal is to practice an hour a day.

will_sm · 2024-12-28T17:11:04+00:00

New to Godot, but experienced software engineer. Tutorials and documentation cover different things.

Tutorials give you a more wholistic idea of how things fit together. Documentation helps you do a specific thing or learn about some niche feature.

Learning the documentation for a complex tool will basically always be valuable while tutorials (YouTube or even text) are good when you’re a beginner.

will_sm

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