Hexnut @ambihelical@qoto.org

@harish Hmmm, I guess I don't understand why you care really. I sometimes run rings around other engineers, but it's not because of keybindings. Sometimes its about emacs functionality independent of keybindings. Usually it's other stuff though, not related to emacs. Whether or not I may be using the most efficient editing method isn't really relevant. It's like optimizing a function that only executes 1% of the time. Doubling it's speed isn't worth the time working on it.

@harish I use evil because I spent multiple decades using vi/vile/vim bindings. My fingers know it too well. I'd probably be happier with the original emacs keybindings, at least in emacs, it's less impedance mismatch with the keybindings of various modes, but it's the path I took to emacs, so I have continued with it. I think a lot of other people are are in the same boat, it's not so much that it's superior or not, but it's easier to get on with it.

@benwis it’s defined convention by POSIX so standard on Unix like os.

@AstraKernel Why not do these as a poll? B seems right, but I'll probably forget about this question...

@noodlejs probably just the hashtag but the one at the top really is cut off. Using iPhone 15.8 safari on my raggedy old 6s.

@noodlejs cool idea. I can’t tell though is it cutting the tags off on the left in this result?

@freemo Do you have a name for the company yet?

@freemo Congrats! Are you at liberty to disclose what you are working on? I gather from other posts something AI related, but that's about it.

@freemo @trinsec it’s an option I had not considered, but will try for a while. Ivory does a nice job overall in the way dedicated well written apps can sometimes do.

@freemo @trinsec That’s good to hear. I noticed the lack of edit a while back. But the latest ivory has a new explore tab that doesn’t even show up. Made me wonder about the server version.

I’m not sure what the plethora of features buy tbh. Many do strange things on other clients or don’t work at all. E.g. quote posts are usually stripped out on other clients, long posts can’t be made with other clients, math render doesn’t work at all even on qoto.org. Last time I tried them anyway.

@javentous It seems on the whole a bit nicer. The markup is easy enough although tables are a bit more work. I miss the math preview I had set up for latex equations in adoc-mode. But math markup is much easier to read and write with typst. And it’s much faster to get a document out so it’s just a little less convenient.

I don’t use doom I started from scratch before it was a thing. But often recommend it to those that are emacs curious.

@freemo @trinsec A fork is ok I guess if it keeps up with the feature set of the original. Currently I’m seeing reduced functionality in my preferred client (ivory) I am assuming because the servers are diverged. So it’s not keeping up afaict. Nothing critical yet but wondering if this will be an issue in the future.

@LouisIngenthron Nah, there's lotsa room, just not at the top

@10leej Not real sure how elpaca works, but I think the seq it is referring to is the emacs package, not the command line program.

@freemo Qoto.org is getting a little long in the tooth being apparently based on a mastodon version released in Oct 2020 (3.2.1). Any plans to update to a more recent base version?

@Adorable_Sergal I wonder what percentage of devs actually go to programming conferences. I’ve never been to one and don’t have any desire to. Also don’t wear hoodies when coding or drink mt dew so maybe I’m just weird. I may write code to end the world one day tho one never knows.

@peterdrake Counter prediction based on, well, nothing: Enough states will disqualify Trump to make it impossible for him to win. At which point Haley will get the nomination, and actually beat Biden because she's middle of the road enough for swing voters, and she will also appeal to enough indian-americans that are actually fairly right leaning if you're not a crazy racist white guy, that this will put her over the edge.