Kalq's comments

With regards to zettelkasten, I've always worndered where serendipitous discovery of notes goes from being actually worthwhile to frequently getting distracted but justifying it as productive.

While I appreciate the analogy, it's important to note that registers are a fairly advanced feature, not quite as ubiquitous as Ctrl-C. Standard Emacs copy-paste remains unchanged and functions just as expected.

If you are this hypersensitive to change, it behooves you stay on a stable release and only upgrade after you've read the CHANGELOG and NEWS files.

Give consult-rg with ripgrep and emacs a try. It's an excellent combination.

Isn't that basically Rustlings?

Curious what integration you're using? I'm using direnv with envrc but I'm interested to see of any good alternatives.

I'm not sure how long ago you used Guix, but in my experience, modern day nonguix is very up to date with Firefox and upstream Linux. Combined with things like Guix shell, time machine, and pinning specific commits, I find things have not broken for me in ways that I couldn't easily resolve in a few minutes in a long time.

1.projectile-kill-buffers or the built-in project-kill-buffers will do that for the current project. You could run that before switching projects.

2. https://github.com/radian-software/apheleia

3. There might be a way to do this but I'm not sure. Emacs being inherently single threaded probably makes this difficult. But yes, I use M-x (re)compile.

4. libvterm is the best still imo. You can definitely do multiple instances and there's even different tab modes in Emacs now.

Just an fyi for people using straight or interested in it, its maintainer is working on an alternative called elpaca.

https://github.com/progfolio/elpaca

You get anime

Why don't you like that book and which Haskell book would you recommend then?

Not sure about struts but here's what the rest mean.

Dynamic tiling: When a new window is created, the window manager automatically decides where to place the window based on it's rule. This is usually contrasted with manual tiling where the user usually has to decide where a window should go before creating it. In this case, the ruleset Work uses appears to be master-stack based tiling. Which leads to that.

Master-Stack Tiling: A layout where once window is considered the master window, taking about about half the screen. And the rest of the windows stack up on top of each other on one side.

Floating mode: A lot of tiling window managers also allow you to designate a window as floating like a traditional desktop environment such as Gnome where every windows is floating by default and can be dragged around into any position. This is useful for certain applications, for example I like to have my media player be floating. Also I set up a certain terminal type to be floating so I can quickly popup or dropdown a terminal to run a quick command in it before dismissing the terminal.

Gaps: Tiling window managers traditionally take up the entire screen. For example, with only one window it will be fullscreened. With 2 windows, they will be tiled side by side with no space in between, etc. Gaps means that the window manager allows spacing in between these tiled windows (and often between a window and the edge of the screen as well). This can allow bits of your wallpaper to peek through. Some people find this more aesthetic.

Tag-based: Some window managers just call their implementation of traditional virtual desktops (workspaces), tags. They make no differentiation. However more accurately, a tag is a label that is put on a window. Most implementations allow a window to have multiple tags put on it. That's the most generic definition of tags. Usually window managers use these tags to allow for interesting virtual desktop workflows. One way this can be useful is if a window has tags 1, 4, and 5. Then if you were to switch to workspace 1, 4 or 5, that window would show up. More advanced implementations would allow you to adjust how that window looks per tag. For example in workspace 1, that window might be fullscreen, but it 4 it's tiled on the left and it 5 it's floating on the bottom half. There are other implementations of the tag concept but it gets complicated fast.

Hope that helps. This is just my general understanding of these concepts. I have no idea how Worm defines or implements them.

Wish somebody would tell that to the Emacs maintainers.

I don't know if the solution to silo'ing everything in Discord as opposed to Reddit is any better? The medium is different enough that small sized communities can be far more active than a similar sized one on a forum or subreddit, but on the other hand as a member of a few communities with a few hundred to a few thousand people it's a nightmare to keep track of the conversations and requires far more mental engagement throughout the day.

Yeah Discord is not going to go away anytime soon. If they ever start to actually struggle for money they'll just be bought up by some tech giant.

Musicians might be the most saturated field but I think this is true for most things. How many millions of artists or photographers put out their art for piddling views and even less money. Even genuinely amazing artists can be absolutely unheard of. Authors also fall into this category.

I guess it might help to reaffirm the beliefs of somebody who was teetering in their distrust of Microsoft like myself.

I've been anti-Microsoft for about 15 years but even I'll admit that I've warmed up to them over the past few years because of their seemingly good works (and amazing PR). Stuff like this helps me remember why healthy skepticism is still super important when it comes to giant companies like MS.

Kind of strange to refer to "laptop like performance" considering the parts he's using.

And why not? Aesthetics are very important for a lot of people. Unless you're doing some sort of watercooling or need multiple GPUs or other expansion cards or need to put it a bunch of HDDs there's no reason you can't go for a smaller form factor. Why should a mid or full-sized ATX case be the standard?

I think there's a bit of confusion here in the way the author frames these 100 people. At this level they are not fans. They're not supporting you out of some sort of emotional attachment. They are giving you $1000 a year because they believe that the service or product you provide is worth that much. They're customers and that's all.

The "whale" archetype is just a modern version of what has always existed with MLM and self-help gurus where they pray on rich and emotionally vulnerable people. It's an absolutely tiny group of people that will never translate to a widespread economy.

Conflating the 1000 true fans concept with this is a mistake in my opinion.

I disagree. Plenty of man pages have very excellent examples that serve as a beginner tutorial. Ones that are just as good (and easy to understand) if not better than what I've seen from TLDR. There's no reason manpages can't be both.