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hackers.town: 2022-04-29 Fri 07:34
Opened task manager out of curiosity. Gotta scroll too far for this to be a good screenshot, so:
VS Code: 288.5MBSublime Text: 184.7MB…GNU Emacs: 33.0MB
Emacs is a lightweight text editor.
hackers.town: 2022-04-29 Fri 07:47
@nixfreak Sublime is also not based on Electron.
hackers.town: 2022-04-29 Fri 07:48
I mean I know it’s not a fair comparison because each will vary by extensions loaded and work being done. Mostly I keep Emacs open for org-roam.
But if you wanted fair comparisons you wouldn’t be reading numbers off social media.
hackers.town: 2022-04-29 Fri 08:48
@vertigo Right? I’m actually more of a nvim person myself, but I remember Emacs getting so much flak for being a “big” editor — even then ignoring IDEs — and nowadays it doesn’t even register as a blip compared to VS Code.
Sublime being somewhere in between is unsurprising, since it embeds a couple versions of Python.
hackers.town: 2022-04-29 Fri 08:54
Tangent: if I were making an extensible self-documenting editor with today’s resources (and terminology) I might start from Glamorous Toolkit.
okay sure it starts at twice the memory use of VS Code but you get some bang for your buck so to speak.
hackers.town: 2022-04-29 Fri 09:01
@cstanhope @vertigo still a lot of Python 3.3 code in there, for backward compatibility, but users want something a little fresher so 3.8 is also available.
hackers.town: 2022-04-29 Fri 10:04
Thought I just used lists as a timeline filter but turns out that’s also how I find specific people.
As I discovered while spending a few minutes trying to find someone I follow that wasn’t on a list.
hackers.town: 2022-04-29 Fri 11:26
Didn’t think a “conversation” meeting was just gonna be an hour of two people talking out of 17 but here we are.
hackers.town: 2022-04-29 Fri 13:16
About to start a week of vacation. Not a long weekend. Not — what do they call it? Funemployment? Definitely not one of those.
An actual vacation.
So weird.
hackers.town: 2022-04-29 Fri 13:42
Dogs watching closely as I putter and prep. They know something’s up but haven’t decide when to start barking about it.
hackers.town: 2022-04-29 Fri 13:51
@welshpixie omg it would be worth it if i could though
hackers.town: 2022-04-29 Fri 13:58
Talked with a younger coworker who complimented my transparency about things like mental health and I was all smug for a sec then realized they might be taking notes so “I do filter though. Open about my current state but the details are for family and therapist”"
hackers.town: 2022-04-29 Fri 14:06
the clenching fear that somebody may be using you as an example rather than a cautionary tale
hackers.town: 2022-04-29 Fri 18:27
well hey cool
I got Elder.js building Asciidoctor content. Adding a plugin for it wasn’t too bad.
Let me rephrase.
Copying and repurposing the #ElderJS Markdown plugin wasn’t too bad.
hackers.town: 2022-04-29 Fri 19:28
@nixfreak adoc is awesome stuff. Don’t need 10% of the shortcodes I use with Markdown.
Had a heck of a time figuring out how to build a blog with Antora. Outside their focus for sure. Had a clumsy flow with Hugo, but as an Elder.js plugin it feels pretty natural.
hackers.town: 2022-04-29 Fri 20:51
@nixfreak Yep. Folks have done the work to make some nice tech blogs with Antora, but I couldn’t squish my brain into their work.
hackers.town: 2022-04-29 Fri 22:52
So far I’m just wedging my posts into the Elder.js starter site, but hey learning loads about it and Svelte and Asciidoctor.js. With a little luck tomorrow I’ll figure out why asciidoctor-shiki isn’t doing anything and can share a post screenshot.
