Hacker News: jasonm23

New comment by jasonm23 in "A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp"

jasonm23 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:54:42 +0000

That'll teach me not to scan the article before posting.

again.

New comment by jasonm23 in "A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp"

jasonm23 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 04:51:44 +0000

Really should include Emacs lisp, as it's a something many in academia happen upon for LaTeX or some other side use.

While Emacs Lisp is confined to the editor, it also shows that the Editor is not that, and much has been said of it as an OS, an Application Platform, and so on.

Since about 1992, I've used it as platform for many things as well as a general purpose text editor I couldn't initially figure out how to quit.

I'm sure many here are more fervent about Emacs, living in the terminal switched to living in Emacs for a lot of folks... that's really a testament to the usability gravity of an integrated computing platform with Lisp as it's only scripting language.

ymmv of course

New comment by jasonm23 in "Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro"

jasonm23 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:16:50 +0000

Still I for one am grateful for any STT transcription models.

New comment by jasonm23 in "Some yes no questions about Trump, tech perspective"

jasonm23 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:48:54 +0000

For anyone who is analytical and not driven by polemic.

New comment by jasonm23 in "Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

jasonm23 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:27:51 +0000

Please take a look at Nirimod (unaffiliated, but it's awesome.)

New comment by jasonm23 in "AI code and software craft"

jasonm23 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 01:46:59 +0000

Many advances have their slop version, look at any trend which began as broadly positive and became infested with a tacky parade of bandwagon pretenders.

AI is just the next example, and the internet is particularly troublesome at filtering up the most tacky.

Always remember the broadly positive aspects remain, they're simply obscured by dusty clouds from the bandwagon.

Use tools to expand your capability.

New comment by jasonm23 in "Raising money fucked me up"

jasonm23 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:26:40 +0000

There's a lot of evidence to suggest FDR set up Truman, it's well documented he kept Truman in the dark until he died.

New comment by jasonm23 in "If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design"

jasonm23 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:15:54 +0000

Hey, at least it lowers expectations enough that Linux Desktop is good enough with the latest KDE Plasma and to a some extent Gnome.

Apple lost it's broken but incessant leader, and Tim Cook is lets' face it a chair warmer in comparison.

Say what you want, but the disillusionment is sat there, in your view, or you simply never knew Apple when it was "good".

Hey, maybe people will actually understand why proprietary software is, if not immoral, it's the on-ramp for mass control and manipulation that makes the TV central broadcast propaganda soup era, nothing at all in comparison to the manipulation of people by software.

New comment by jasonm23 in "Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph"

jasonm23 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:53:25 +0000

That would be really impressive levels of psychopathy.

New comment by jasonm23 in "Presidential Immunity in the United States"

jasonm23 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 03:25:47 +0000

tl'dr later models generally improve on earlier ones. (although "you can't please all the people all the time" applies)

New comment by jasonm23 in "Text-based web browsers"

jasonm23 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 03:17:31 +0000

I think you nailed the drive behind my ~3 decades of Emacs use: "I can get at all the text" (possibly above the customization/automation benefits despite this being the "advanced" pov above "it's just a text editor isn't it?"

New comment by jasonm23 in "LLVM AI tool policy: human in the loop"

jasonm23 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:10:09 +0000

I remember a 2019 "initiative" at a fairly large international insurance corporation:

"Everyone should code"

This led to a flood of projects trying to get pitched to software, and it also crashed headlong into COVID / furloughs.

That entire C-suite team have been churned, that's how good that idea was.

New comment by jasonm23 in "Now That He Has No Power, Mitt Romney Says "Tax the Rich""

jasonm23 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:06:31 +0000

a torrent of slow claps for Mitt "Say it when it's too late to help" Romney... that's the hallmark of this guy's political contribution.

New comment by jasonm23 in "You Need to Ditch VS Code"

jasonm23 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:04:42 +0000

Some of the older heads here are 100% with you, the notes and comments in this thread should be clear enough indication of that.

But you're right, tools that make short work of ridiculous incantations, 100% good.

We don't sit around trying to re-write arithmetic, but apparently not knowing how to do git pull --rebase is a crime to these smart folks, who don't seem to realize they know very little about getting sh!t done.

New comment by jasonm23 in "Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”"

jasonm23 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:46:29 +0000

United Gangsters of America it seems ... since the people have no say, just a moron with too much luck, too much power, not enough consequences.

They'll come? and the fact that's a question shows American Justice has been absent for quite some time.

New comment by jasonm23 in "Go away Python"

jasonm23 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:44:02 +0000

use uv ... convince everyone to use uv, convince all docs in projects you use, to use uv.

Reject EVERYTHING ELSE for running / building py pip, poetry, conda ... etc.

New comment by jasonm23 in "Self-hosting is being enshittified"

jasonm23 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:41:14 +0000

If you self host and also write some of your own services, the same requirements are as they always were.

minimal ~ < $100 hardware (Dell, Acer etc mini or ssf pc)

install your linux distro, use your preferred containers, or just run as services on the os.

There's no ads, no ai, no layer of shite, it can't be "enshittified" unless you're doing the shittifying.

New comment by jasonm23 in "Software engineers should be a little bit cynical"

jasonm23 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 10:24:23 +0000

more than we already are?!

New comment by jasonm23 in "Sam Altman's pants are on fire"

jasonm23 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 11:51:59 +0000

Well, you know, unless you're a better class of person, then every single thing you post is a backhanded personal attack on the reader.

New comment by jasonm23 in "'No idea who he is', says Trump after pardoning crypto tycoon"

jasonm23 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 04:15:40 +0000

Stop worrying about the use of words, none of this ridiculous exchange will change who does what.