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Related: neither Claude nor Gemini via their respective CLI where able to fix this bug with full source access, sanitizer, a test suite, and guidance. I, a mere human, looked at the snapshot diffs, saw what's up and located the offending location within 10 minutes.
Clean desk? Think twice
As opposed to the my lowest point in tech when I worked as a CTO at a early stage startup and found out because I liked to keep my desk clean and clear each night, people were sneaking back into the office when I was gone to make sweet, sweeeeeet love on my gloriously clear desk.…
At the airport. Wanted a physical book to read. Not a lot of choice. Got this & the subheading on the page 143 made me chuckle, it’s like it’s talking about itself. Let’s see…
Good feature, didn’t have to resort to trolling 😀
My new favorite: I snuck in an /editor command today. Lets you edit the current prompt in your EDITOR.
✨ New blog post ✨ Patching your Homebrew's Emacs Plus (macOS) xenodium.com/patching-your-… #emacs #macos #homebrew #oss #elisp #lisp
#Emacs send-to (aka #macOS sharing) merged upstream xenodium.com/emacs-send-to-… I'm glad I gave it a chance indieweb.social/@xenodium/1139…
But, look, credit where credit is due, their console being the most unusable ugliest thing on the face of the planet made me a mega-millionaire so hats off to whoever fucked that up. Cheers.
"Send to..." context menu item added to mouse.el by @xenodium cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git… #emacs
From the Director of Robotics at NVIDIA. The very rapid (if uneven) advance of LLMs may lead people to expect too much, too soon from robotics.
My bar for AGI is far simpler: an AI cooking a nice dinner at anyone’s house for any cuisine. The Physical Turing Test is very likely harder than the Nobel Prize. Moravec’s paradox will continue to haunt us, looming larger and darker, for the decade to come.
When using #claudecode or #ampcode in the terminal and you want to edit the prompt in $EDITOR, but really #emacs(client), this might help
The domain is still showing a generic parking page. But @AmpCode started this initiative with agent.md domain purchase.
Great news: @OpenAI just got the AGENTS.md domain! Making a microsite on how to use it provide context to coding agents like Codex, Amp & Gemini. The name is intentionally neutral and open. Help me, @sqs, @simpsoka out: Please share your best practices or examples!
The slot machine junkies in Europe seeing one thing. While those in the great Satan are saying another.
I don’t see claude (code) or other models getting worse, I believe it’s more a psychological effect where we just keep expecting more and the initial wow-effect is gone.
Thanks for making this freely available. I am taking a short sabbatical from being 100% all-in on LLM tech, and have started once again working through Software Design For Flexibility, and I am adding your programming languages book to my reading list (I have been programming…
Well, here we go. After well over two years, here's a new version of my programming languages book, PLAI (v3.2.5). As always, free of cost! Can't thank enough all the people named in the acknowledgments. Enjoy! plai.org
How to make #Emacs interact with a process via stdin/stdout when the process can be slow or unreliable: mbork.pl/2025-07-14_Int…
Who needs soap operas when you’ve got AI companies providing real entertainment like this?
The show goes on! Announcing the real next chapter of Windsurf - we’re joining forces with @cognition_labs , the creators of Devin, to reinvent AI coding. Let’s surf.
Just found out that George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, written around 1948, describes a "versificator" that composes the words for songs "entirely by mechanicsl means" simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/nin…
The fact that people use the internet mostly for entertainment isn't a weird or surprising But you also have access to courses on every topic by experts, every major out-of-copyright book, can talk to people from anywhere, etc. The impact of that is smaller than I once expected.