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New comment by joefitzgerald in "Zed 1.0"

joefitzgerald — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:17:16 +0000

Zed really is delightful to use. I haven't had any need to open VSCode in over a year. Extending it has been relatively simple, even as someone who doesn't know Rust well.

The Zed team seem to have really learned their lesson on performance from the Atom days, because it's very performant. @nathansobo, @maxbrunsfeld, @as-cii and the team, congrats!

New comment by joefitzgerald in "Zed is now available on Windows"

joefitzgerald — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:48:48 +0000

There is a feature that lets you share your screen. It shows up for other participants in the collaboration session as a tab in the editor.

New comment by joefitzgerald in "A 10-Year Battery for AirTag"

joefitzgerald — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 22:11:09 +0000

> Why can't the AirTag simply report its battery status and warn the user e.g. through a nearby iPhone?

This is precisely how an AirTag works. It reports its battery status[1] via a notification to the user on an iPhone.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102600

New comment by joefitzgerald in "A random dungeon generator that fits on a business card (2019)"

joefitzgerald — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:14:45 +0000

If you were wondering about the tribute to Ginny, here's the context: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2022/02/13/stupid-dog/.

New comment by joefitzgerald in "Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better"

joefitzgerald — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 22:13:05 +0000

Safari’s version of this also allows you to associate specific sites with specific profiles [0].

[0]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212544#links

New comment by joefitzgerald in "San Francisco’s Financial Crisis"

joefitzgerald — Sat, 27 May 2023 12:53:54 +0000

I use my adaptation of Hanlon’s razor frequently:

> Never mistake for stupidity that which is explained by incentive structure.

Seems to fit here also!

New comment by joefitzgerald in "Go debugger using delve for Atom"

joefitzgerald — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 12:34:43 +0000

Precompiled binaries for OS X are coming: https://github.com/derekparker/delve/issues/494

New comment by joefitzgerald in "Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users"

joefitzgerald — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:34:05 +0000

https://github.com/atom/metrics#collected-data

Metrics collection can be disabled by the user, and this option is also presented to the user on first load of Atom.

Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users

joefitzgerald — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 17:49:57 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.atom.io/2016/03/28/atom-reaches-1m-users.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11375909

Points: 71

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New comment by joefitzgerald in "Developing Atom Packages, Part 2: So Much Potential, So Many Bugs"

joefitzgerald — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 15:05:21 +0000

There's a general tide moving towards ES6 in the Atom community, and away from CoffeeScript. See https://github.com/atom-community/environment for an example package. That doesn't mean all existing packages will be rewritten overnight, but it does mean you'll see a shift, even in core packages.

New comment by joefitzgerald in "Atom 1.0"

joefitzgerald — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:27:05 +0000

The killer feature of Atom to me is the ease with which it can be extended (via packages) and the openness to community contribution on core features. That's not a knock against any other editor (some of which share similar characteristics in this regard) – it's just what draws me to Atom.

It's super easy to hack on and contribute to.

New comment by joefitzgerald in "Atom's autocomplete just got better"

joefitzgerald — Sun, 17 May 2015 22:42:34 +0000

freshyill: please see https://github.com/atom/autocomplete-plus/issues/460 for further information.

New comment by joefitzgerald in "Atom's autocomplete just got better"

joefitzgerald — Fri, 15 May 2015 20:54:40 +0000

A huge thanks to the Atom team (https://github.com/benogle in particular) for embracing a community package and bringing it back into the core of Atom.

This is the killer feature of Atom in my mind: the community around it, and the rate with which contributions can be made and then absorbed into the core.

New comment by joefitzgerald in "Go, robots and refactoring"

joefitzgerald — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 15:46:52 +0000

This is a really helpful article - nice work Matt.