Picking on this detail, what I've found works nicely is that when a new major Emacs version flows into my Debian, I also update all packages to their latest versions and then freeze those versions until the next major Emacs release. And those versions are locked in my emacs.d git repo, so I have a reproducible Emacs at home and work both. There's a little iteration to adapt to changes in Emacs and packages, but after that, it's stable and reliable for a year or two.

https://github.com/radian-software/straight.el

To avoid losing any work, I have a habit of never keeping branches local-only for long. Additionally this relies on https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/configuring-branches...

I don't actually plan to run this as a service so there's some things hard-coded and the setup is a bit difficult as you need an API key and a proxy. Currently it's just experimentation, although if it works well, I'll probably use it personally.

https://github.com/otsaloma/news-rss

"He took me under the arms, lifted me up, kissed me, and placed me firmly on the jetty. I was sorry for him and for myself. I could hardly keep from crying when I saw him returning to the steamer, pushing aside the porters, looking so large, heavy, solitary. So many times since then I have met people like him, kind, lonely, cut off from the lives of other people."

Python (uv + dataiter, but easy to modify for pandas or polars): https://github.com/otsaloma/dataiter/blob/master/bin/di-open

R (as per comment, requires also ~/.Rprofile code, nanoparquet in this case): https://github.com/otsaloma/R-tools/blob/master/r-load

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45867752

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I did the same exercise. My implementation is at around 300 lines with two tools: web search and web page fetch with a command line chat interface and Python package. And it could have been a lot less lines if I didn't want to write a usable, extensible package interface.

As the agent setup itself is simple, majority of the work to make this useful would in the tools themselves and context management for the tools.

Been using it for a couple weeks now and find it really nice. Tried some auto-hide panel extensions before, but this is much better.

LLMs feel to me a nice fit here because there's just so much users might want to do with the chart styling. Past approaches that I've seen offer some kind of "quick selections" of common stuff and while they can help you get started, they quickly become annoying when you need to add some final tweaks not covered by the tool/API/whatever.

Also, having (already a while ago) looked at the implementation of the magic `_` object, it seemed like an awful hack that will serve only a part of use cases. Maybe someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I get the impression you can do e.g. `summarize(x=_.x.mean())` but not `summarize(x=median(_.x))`. I'm guessing you don't get autocompletion in your editor or useful error messages and it can then get painful using this kind of a magic.

Here's my alternative: https://github.com/otsaloma/dataiter https://dataiter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_static/comparison...

Planning to switch to NumPy 2.0 strings soon. Other than that I feel all the basic operations are fine and solid.

Note for anyone else rolling up their sleeves: You can get quite far with pure Python when building on top of NumPy (or maybe Arrow). The only thing I found needing more performance was group-by-aggregate, where Numba seems to work OK, although a bit difficult as a dependency.

1. Does this make the apps show up as separate windows in Alt+Tab and a Dock etc? (FWIW I use GNOME + Dash to dock + Wayland)

2. Let's say you have a mail app and you click a link. Does that link open in the separate default browser?

I remember trying these command line options for Brave/Chrome, but I couldn't find a way where both of the above were working and thus they didn't feel like proper apps. I've only been using this for something like Apple Music, where I never click on any link that takes me outside. For everything else, like mail and notes, I've been using pinned tabs, but that feels suboptimal too.