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New comment by seumars in "Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor"

seumars — Wed, 07 May 2025 12:34:13 +0000

Wow that's one awkwardly pompous introduction. Nevertheless Zed never fails to impress. Aside from all the AI fireworks it really goes to show how building software "from scratch" pays off in the long run.

New comment by seumars in "Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS"

seumars — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 19:56:07 +0000

Agreed. Come to think of it Homebrew has pretty bad ergonomics in general. What i want is an overview of compiled binaries, where they are, and what their versions are. That’s it.

New comment by seumars in "JavaScript Views, the Hard Way – A Pattern for Writing UI"

seumars — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 08:47:15 +0000

It seems the "hard way" here is just avoiding frameworks. The real hard part of UI is in fact state management and the myriad of methods for handling state.

New comment by seumars in "Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming""

seumars — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 08:26:02 +0000

Any specific paper or article of his you would recommend?

New comment by seumars in "Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS"

seumars — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:24:06 +0000

great quote. swiss german designer perhaps?

New comment by seumars in "Kerning, the Hard Way"

seumars — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:34:45 +0000

Funnily enough the example given of good “L” and “T” kerning in the word SALTY is badly kerned, the letters are kerned too close to each other. The classic trick is to look at 3-letter groups at a time, one word at a time.

New comment by seumars in "Please help me find better blogs to read"

seumars — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:11:11 +0000

This is the only correct suggestion

New comment by seumars in "The Future of Htmx"

seumars — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 23:32:41 +0000

you can define import maps in a separate