1. I've been using the $100 github copilot tier but am looking for something cheaper, as my usage is waning somewhat. I like to hop between models for comparison, but openrouter always seems to end up being way more expensive for the flagship models. I also keep a GPT Plus subscription for voice, until someone has a comparable offering
2. No outside models yet. Working on a setup for that. Sometimes I throw some money at openrouter to check out the mega-cheap options.
3. At home I really like goose (TUI), but have been messing with opencode (TUI mode)lately which is also nice. At work I use Zed with a corporate claude subscription and it's a good setup.
4) Not really. I tried some of the opencode swarm plugins awhile back but they didn't seem to work right. In general I don't really have the energy for messsing with a new plugin ecosystem. I also like to work in a _tight_ loop, conversationally as things are being built, steering all the decisions. I have next to no desire to hand a larger task to a "team of AIs" to replace my input with more AI.
5) No
I drive a lot and spend a lot of time talking to GPT voice workshopping ideas, talking at a conceptual level, looking up things I'm curious about, and discussing design and problems I'm having, sometimes even work problems. I use goose for all kinds of stuff, mostly infrastructure and debugging for now but I've written a couple programs with it as well.
I had a similar experience where I tried to declare bankruptcy after havning not used emacs for a year and a half or so, ended up re-implementing things until finally I was like 'no I was right the first time'.
That said, damn, my emacs config is like 1000 LOC and takes like 20 seconds to load. Also the reason I keep leaving Emacs is definitely the complexity of the bugs and the edge-of-the-edge case things that come up when I'm just trying to do something simple (the other day it crashed after running `e: newfile`, the evil mode command for editing a new file. I have no idea why it crashed but after it did the program couldn't be killed. Maybe it was because I was trying to open a file with no extension, but even that's a stretch.
Anyway would you mind if I sent you my config sometime or looked at yours? It's never occurred to me to write regression tests
Of course¹, but I warn you - it may feel massive, I do tons of (at first) seemingly weird stuff. Like OCRing images in my clipboard (which is now a separate package²)
Crashing Emacs is a rare aberration, GNU/Emacs is incredibly stable, I really don't remember the last time seeing it crash on Linux. On Mac, that could happen, usually due to some .dylib misbehaving, also a rare thing. Don't ask me about Windows, I stopped using it completely and hope to never have to boot into it ever again. Some things in life are just not worth losing your breath over frustration. Anyone who says Windows 11 is not aggravating are out of their mind.
Sometimes, people conflate Emacs crashing and hanging, the latter can happen, but almost never requires killing it - you just send `pkill -SIGUSR2 emacs` from the shell and it unblocks.
Interesting. This was on a mac. It was very strange, the windows lost the bar with the x and minimize button, and it couldn't be killed via activity monitor or pkill (I didn't use your command, just kill -9 as well as killall emacs). Had to reboot the computer.
I will say that pretty much all the bugs I mentioned that bug me are things I configured, not base emacs. And I'm sure I configured them incorrectly, but I do find there are a lot of footguns in my defense. Especially for some reason around 4 years ago I had a lot of problems with evil collection and getting evil bindings everywhere, but that seems to have improved over time
I'd be curious to try a high-quality tee, I may have never worn one. I kind of assumed beyond a certain floor (100% cotton, decent fit) the price is just brand recognition? I end up wearing a lot of tees from events or bands, and I have noticed the Gildan ones do feel a lot better usually, but that's about the only difference I ever feel in tee shirts
Yeah I should clarify that you have to look for ones that differentiate themselves on quality rather than branding. I was lucky enough to get Pistol Lake ones before they went out of business (they invented their own cloth!) but there’s various others you can find I’m sure. Sunspel also makes quite expensive, quite incredible polos — might have plain tees too, not sure.
Definitely don’t, like, get Gucci or Supreme ones ;)
I almost immediately click-dragged into a nearby building by accident, and am fascinated by how this engine attempts to extrapolate the inside of the building using only information about the outside. It's kind of surreal, and slightly more convincing than it feels like it should be at times
> Countdown time can be incremented by tapping the watch.
This one is fascinating to me. Can you set it to start a countdown timer by tapping the watch itself (not a button)? If I could, say, tap the watch to start a 30m countdown timer whenever for baking, and then change a setting to make it a 1m30s timer on tap for exercise, that would be huge for me. But maybe that's not what you meant?
as I use it the increment is regarding the minutes. for 30 minutes I tap 30 times. given that it's all open source you could certainly change increments to 30 seconds.
2. No outside models yet. Working on a setup for that. Sometimes I throw some money at openrouter to check out the mega-cheap options.
3. At home I really like goose (TUI), but have been messing with opencode (TUI mode)lately which is also nice. At work I use Zed with a corporate claude subscription and it's a good setup.
4) Not really. I tried some of the opencode swarm plugins awhile back but they didn't seem to work right. In general I don't really have the energy for messsing with a new plugin ecosystem. I also like to work in a _tight_ loop, conversationally as things are being built, steering all the decisions. I have next to no desire to hand a larger task to a "team of AIs" to replace my input with more AI.
5) No
I drive a lot and spend a lot of time talking to GPT voice workshopping ideas, talking at a conceptual level, looking up things I'm curious about, and discussing design and problems I'm having, sometimes even work problems. I use goose for all kinds of stuff, mostly infrastructure and debugging for now but I've written a couple programs with it as well.
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