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Show HN: Kitty.cards – Create Apple Wallet cards online (no login)

xenodium — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:54:26 +0000

Article URL: https://kitty.cards/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482603

Points: 3

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New comment by xenodium in "Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg"

xenodium — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:17:35 +0000

Neat! I did the Emacs equivalent https://github.com/xenodium/video-trimmer

New comment by xenodium in "How I write software with LLMs"

xenodium — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:45:56 +0000

From my experience, you kinda get what you ask for. If you don't ask for anything specific, it'll write as it sees fit. The more you involve yourself in the loop, the more you can get it to write according to your expectation. Also helps to give it a style guide of sorts that follows your preferred style.

New comment by xenodium in "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"

xenodium — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:50:28 +0000

Resume is supported by agent-shell, but is dependent on agent's to implement the relevant ACP. Do you know if OpenCode's ACP implementation has listing and resuming session support?

Also, you'll need to enable resuming as per post (it's a new feature) https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-47-1-updates

New comment by xenodium in "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"

xenodium — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:10:56 +0000

That's nice to hear. Thank you!

New comment by xenodium in "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"

xenodium — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:59:25 +0000

I put off adopting popular agents for most of 2025 primarily because there was no agent-agnostic path to first-class Emacs integration. That changed with ACP (https://agentclientprotocol.com), thus I started working on agent-shell.

I'm happy with how the integration is shaping up, enabling me to have my cake and eat it too (Emacs + AI agents).

I wrote an agent-shell post recently with the latest changes https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-47-1-updates

agent-shell 0.47 updates

xenodium — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:29:30 +0000

Article URL: https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-47-1-updates

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47352185

Points: 2

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Bending Emacs Episode 13: agent-shell + Claude Skills + Charts [video]

xenodium — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:25:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJQ86HuSIJI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47245995

Points: 2

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New comment by xenodium in "When does MCP make sense vs CLI?"

xenodium — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 20:55:06 +0000

I've yet to play with Emacs MCPs thoroughly. Having said that, after initial exposure to agent skills directing agents to just use CLI/emacsclient, I no longer think I need to go deeper into MCP. emacsclient via CLI has been working remarkably well. Did a little video on that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymMlftdGx4I

Bending Emacs – Episode 12: agent-shell and Claude Skills [video]

xenodium — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:36:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymMlftdGx4I

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157492

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Introducing winpulse

xenodium — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:17:37 +0000

Article URL: https://xenodium.com/introducing-winpulse

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46965316

Points: 2

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New comment by xenodium in "Claude Opus 4.6"

xenodium — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:46:41 +0000

I like LLMs, but guarantees in LLMs are... you know... not guaranteed ;)

New comment by xenodium in "Agent-shell: A native Emacs buffer to interact with LLM agents powered by ACP"

xenodium — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:38:32 +0000

> It's still not crystal clear to me architecturally is going on

[ Emacs ] <-- JSONRPC (stdin/stdout) -> [ Agent subprocess (headless) ]

> I'd love to know how that is wired to the agents; is that input sent over ACP?

Yes. All traffic goes over ACP between Emacs and the agent. You can inspect the traffic using agent-shell itself.

https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell?tab=readme-ov-file#h...

> Is that just sending to the shell?

The compose buffer is an UX abstraction on top of the agent shell buffer which is a native Emacs buffer, but ultimately all traffic is sent over ACP.

agent-shell's links to blog posts may be of interest https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell?tab=readme-ov-file#n...

New comment by xenodium in "Agent-shell: A native Emacs buffer to interact with LLM agents powered by ACP"

xenodium — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:53:39 +0000

> Like with claude-code-ide you can define custom MCP tools that run Emacs commands.

Should be possible in newer versions of agent-shell (see https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell/pull/237)

New comment by xenodium in "Agent-shell: A native Emacs buffer to interact with LLM agents powered by ACP"

xenodium — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:51:45 +0000

> Keeping your own data as plain text has huge benefits. Having all my chats persistent is good. It's all private.

While agent-shell is much newer than chatgpt-shell, it likely has richer interaction by now (specially the compose interface). I'm veering off topic here... agent-shell now saves all interactions to project/.agent-shell/transcripts as Markdown files. We can totally do org too, but I just haven't gotten to it.

New comment by xenodium in "Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?"

xenodium — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:04:31 +0000

I had been hoarding links/notes to movies/tv shows for some time, saved to a plain text file. Often by sharing links from other apps (ie. Reddit or Letterboxd), paired with hashtags, using an iOS app I built.

Finally extracted the data for these hashtags and fed it to an LLM to organize. I'm happy with the result https://xenodium.com/film-tv-bookmarks-chaos-resolved