alexkehayias

Having used emacs for many years, OP's description of "doing things wrong" is exactly the way I use emacs.

I seldom care about the inner workings of emacs and will do the absolute minimum to get it to work the way I want and then move on. I'm reminded over and over again that Emacs patinas really nicely with poorly written elisp in an init file over time.

Case in point, I found that org-export is super slow. After profiling it, I found the slow function, copied it, removed the slow part, and advice-add it right back in there[0]. Might this break some other deeply intertwined behavior someplace else? Probably. Does it matter if I'm the only one using it? Nope.

[0]https://github.com/alexkehayias/emacs.d/blob/master/init.el#...

I’m using gpt-4o which I think is the default for the OpenAI configuration.

Haven’t tried other models yet but old like to see how o3-mini performs once it’s been added.

So I gave goose a whirl and I actually really like the approach they are taking, especially because I use emacs and not vscode. I would recommend people try it out on an existing project—the results are quite good for small, additive features and even ones that are full stack.

Here's a short writeup of my notes from trying to use it https://notes.alexkehayias.com/goose-coding-ai-agent/

You have to fill in some gaps (and occasional paranthesis) but it’s pretty darn good at writing elisp for improving your config. I find it’s helpful enough that you can take on medium hanging fruit that you wouldn’t attempt otherwise.

For example, I wrote a minor mode for centering text, an org-export backend for Notion, and some plumbing for chatgpt-shell.

https://notes.alexkehayias.com/using-chatgpt-with-emacs/

I have a pretty similar workflow for publishing my personal notes which is exported using GitHub actions. https://notes.alexkehayias.com

Relevant emacs init code here (a lot of hacks to get exporting to ox-hugo to work and improve performance): https://github.com/alexkehayias/emacs.d/blob/master/init.el#...

I find navigating notes with an interactive graph as not that useful for others. I mostly use org-roam-ui myself to spot notes with no links but otherwise there's way too many nodes to do anything other than randomly click around.

Nice, I’ll check out poetry.

That’s great that some of the virtualenv functionality made its way into the standard library!

:-) Thanks for pointing out FastAPI!

You're right, far less churn than when I came back to js after leaving off at backbone/coffeescript/grunt...

Thank you! re: sqlalchemy, are there more options for python micro web frameworks like Flask? I enjoyed flask + sqlalchemy in the past.

Thanks for the heads up about graphQL—I think I'll avoid for now. It will be for a new project so not a big deal.

I just had a quick look at PyTorch... you're totally right this is miles ahead of what I remember.

I forgot to ask about package management. Do you use pip, conda, poetry?

Thanks, didn’t know about py video. I will take a look!

I wrote a little tool to help check Rust crates on GitHub. It's been really interesting seeing how different libs use unsafety. https://github.com/alexkehayias/harbor

I've gotten early access and have been trying it out. So far it's been incredibly easy to use (one time cards is awesome for ordering food or trying out new merchants/startups) and I enjoy the notifications. I just received the plastic card so it may end up being my primary card replacing a Chase Freedom card I have had forever (also 1% cashback). As for the comments about annual fees, if this becomes your primary card I think it will more than pay for itself over a year.

Looking forward to working with you! I'm joining next week to work on Atlas too.

Anyone know if the firmware allows you to program keys to emulate a mouse? I use this often with tmk_keyboard https://github.com/tmk/tmk_keyboard firmware and found it to be just good enough to never use a mouse and keep the keyboard on your lap which is much better for my shoulders.

Easier inline editing of command args i.e accidentally executing the script when trying to enter a newline.

Author here, this was a quick hack using ClojureScript and react to help myself play around with EBNF grammars by rendering them with HTML/CSS. All credit goes to the wonderful Instaparse library written by Mark Engelberg. Yes I'm aware the example grammar isn't perfect, but that was the point of making this :-)

I've been working on a project to create 2D sprite based game engine in ClojureScript. My goal was to represent the game completely with data and let the engine figure out how to interpret and render it (declaratively). In the end I implemented an entity component system (as other comments have suggested) and used existing javascript rendering libraries to handle rendering (not writing a wrapper for webgl...). You can check it out here: https://github.com/alexkehayias/chocolatier

It's been a ton of fun bringing a functional approach to games using Clojure and I gave a talk about it at ClojureWest this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW1ie0pIO_E hope this helps others looking to build games!

Love the work they open sourced in Clojure. Very sorry to see them go. I was a user of their app for awhile, but I tend to believe human led curation provides better signal to noise when it comes to content. It was a tremendous effort in trying to break that barrier and I'm thankful for all they contributed back!

Has anyone used this extensively and could share some experiences building with it?

Big fan of hackable mechanical keyboards. I built the Ergodox recently and it was pretty straight forward to put together and program layouts. I like the idea of a more portable mechanical keyboard because I end up bringing my keyboard back and forth to work :-)

So cool! Great work. Might be nice to keep the window as more of a HUD with some transparency so you can move around and still see the results while you code.

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Interesting seeing the high likes and dislikes for coffeescript. Recently there have been a few articles about xyz moving to JavaScript from coffee and how it writes non performant code. I still find JavaScript hard to write without libraries and remembering specific gotchas that coffeescript takes care of without me thinking about.

I put them in the comments as you suggested. The main one was just restored 288731291242658. I don't actually know the full list of IDs, but it looks like the ones I care about were restored.

FYI this issue still isn't resolved for a number of people. I'm still waiting on several.

Dammit I've been playing this for 2 hours straight...

Lived here for 8 years and still learning something new. Got to love NYC! Also throwing it out there that Backspaces has really good, off-beat (in a good way), artistic content like this all the time.

+1 for Emacs keybindings

I get that. I like DJ Khalid, Wale, and Wiz Kalifa to get me on my grind sometimes.

Yohimi is an awesome album for coding! Was going to put that in my answer too.