I will be streaming on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/glyph_official/ in a bit over 17 hours (10AM US/Pacific on Tuesday), writing some #Python code in #Emacs. If that is interesting to you feel free to stop by, and don't worry about derailing anything; I'll probably be working on Pomodouroboros again but happy to chat about whatever!
James Endres Howell
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In the Age of AI Writing Tools, I Picked Emacs for My Sci-Fi Novel
https://itsfoss.com/emacs-the-ux-ideal/
> The venerable text editor feels timeless and timely in the age of AI and enshittification. A novelist argues that it is perhaps because Emacs is the embodiment of FOSS ideals
In the Age of AI Writing Tools, I Picked Emacs for My Sci-Fi Novel
https://itsfoss.com/emacs-the-ux-ideal/
> The venerable text editor feels timeless and timely in the age of AI and enshittification. A novelist argues that it is perhaps because Emacs is the embodiment of FOSS ideals
One of my favorite things about using #Emacs to read my mail (via mu4e) is capturing emails as to-do items in org-mode. Makes inbox-zero super easy.
And if you don't understand what my rantings about Emacs are about or what in the heck Emacs is, don't feel bad because 90% of the people in my life don't either, including my husband of 10+ years who I have a whole child with and who's seen me use it as my text editor, file manager, email client, scheduler, and feed reader every day for the past half-decade.
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After a dry spell I'm finally booked for enough work to need #OrgMode and #OrgAgenda again to keep track, and when I opened Agenda again for the first time since mid-2025 things were obviously A Mess. 💫 Some to-do items had been rescheduled almost 200 times, untracked habits lay forgotten and dying. It took < 5 minutes to clear or triage though, and Agenda became usable again with the peace of mind that work tasks won't slip through the cracks.
Honestly the Org Mode/Agenda system fills the niche of a Bullet Journal (which I also tried for a few years) for me in being easy to come back to after I inevitably drop off from time to time. And that's a good thing, not only because I get to have an organization system even after being away for a while, but because there are stretches of life when a system genuinely isn't necessary and may do more harm than good. It's nice to be able to move fluidly between the states. #Emacs #ADHD
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if you search for my name among that huge pile of documents that now show how everyone wanted to hang out with him, you get several hits. Several PDFs that contain the curl license, for various software products it seems.
I assume this is exactly how I easily get into trouble. Like sometimes when trying to travel... 😕
@minad coming to the #Fediverse apparently to share the amazing stuff he's doing with @tusharhero and @divyaranjan has made my day. Exciting stuff happening fast.
But I am delighted to see @minad appear here just so I can publicly thank him for all the other great stuff he's provided to the #Emacs community over the years!
That feeling when an #Emacs muscle memory closes the browser tab and erases a reply, and you realize that is actually a good thing.
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ZDnet headline: "I tried a Claude Code alternative that's local, open source, and completely free"
I, too, am using an alternative that is local, open, and free. I write my own damn code, instead of asking for slop from a so-called "AI" plagiarism machine trained on stolen code.
#AIslop
Quoting Gabriella Gonzalez @GabriellaG439 on #vibecoding:
[…] This example is pretty representative of my experiences using vibe coding. Every time I try out vibe coding for real (and not for demos) I start out feeling hopeful and excited and leave feeling let down and disappointed. I don't want to produce throwaway code: I want to build things that will last and won't blow up in my face later and I don't want to handhold/babysit/cajole the tool to get the results I want. I want vibe coding to improve the quality of my work, not deteriorate it.
https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/my-experience-with-vibe-coding
@brouhaha I wish more people, like yourself, will highlight the unethical aspects of ai not just technical and how far reality is from the hype.
Imho Statistical pattern matching can produce code or prose, for sure, it’s just not fit for purpose when there’s a specification, quality control and any type of audit to verify what’s produced. It’s a terrifying mess and I’m merely using it to configure #emacs 😊 the time wasted and amount of slop produced to make even the smallest change is pathetic.
I recall seeing it processing all my checked-out 3rd-party libraries when I asked it to change a value of some configuration option it could have simply read the docs describing it in an emacs it had full access to with an MCP tool. You often have to write very specific and elaborate prompts; you might as well just learn elisp and write the code yourself.
Similar experience with #Nix here https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/116003504003556422
Thanks!