Hacker News: sigzero

New comment by sigzero in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

sigzero — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:56:11 +0000

It's an article about emacs so I guess people were curious enough to ask that question.

New comment by sigzero in "What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000"

sigzero — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:54:56 +0000

It was clean and consistent (pretty much).

New comment by sigzero in "The iPhone's Last Stand?"

sigzero — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:15:02 +0000

Then you haven't been paying attention.

New comment by sigzero in "BBEdit 16"

sigzero — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:27:01 +0000

Same. Recently moved to Windows (blah) but if I move back, that's a purchase for me.

New comment by sigzero in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"

sigzero — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:51:51 +0000

It's the "nuke it from orbit" approach but "the only way to be sure".

New comment by sigzero in "Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May"

sigzero — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:59:35 +0000

The 5th generation kindle came out in ... 2012. That's a pretty good run.

New comment by sigzero in "EMachines never obsolete PCs: More than a meme"

sigzero — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:08:07 +0000

Wow that's certainly a blast from the past. Even had one for a while.

New comment by sigzero in "MacBook Neo"

sigzero — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:22:36 +0000

For a casual computer at home, I'd get one. Everything I do is practically web based anyway.

New comment by sigzero in "Textadept"

sigzero — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:15:14 +0000

From the web page: You can also group key bindings into modes such that while a mode is active, Textadept ignores all key bindings outside that mode until the mode is unset (e.g. Vim-style modal editing). The keys documentation describes all of this in more detail.

New comment by sigzero in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

sigzero — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:21:26 +0000

No, not at all.

New comment by sigzero in "Vim 9.2"

sigzero — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:48:59 +0000

Has neovim settles on a UI yet?

New comment by sigzero in "Mamdani Targets Junk Fees and Hidden Charges in Two Executive Orders"

sigzero — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:20:34 +0000

He is not in cognitive decline. lol

He is geriatric though.

New comment by sigzero in "C Is Best (2025)"

sigzero — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:15:50 +0000

This page was last updated on 2025-05-09 15:56:17Z

New comment by sigzero in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

sigzero — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 22:02:11 +0000

The War Powers Act actually does allow this. Congress has to be back filled within 48 hours after the action (and they were). He can also station troops up to 60 days without congressional approval.

New comment by sigzero in "Lua 5.5"

sigzero — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:59:12 +0000

Oh I hope that don't do that.

New comment by sigzero in "GNU recutils: Plain text database"

sigzero — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:38:08 +0000

You recall correctly.

New comment by sigzero in "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"

sigzero — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:37:15 +0000

I wish they would allow Microsoft Family to have personal domains again. :(

New comment by sigzero in "Some Smalltalk about Ruby Loops"

sigzero — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:20:17 +0000

Pharo

https://pharo.org/

New comment by sigzero in "What we talk about when we talk about sideloading"

sigzero — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:52:45 +0000

Exactly

New comment by sigzero in "What we talk about when we talk about sideloading"

sigzero — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:51:01 +0000

Linux phones are...what? Oh, just like Linux won the desktop. Never mind.