Hacker News: xenodiumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xenodiumHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 29 Oct 2026 05:45:28 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by xenodium in "Emacs Turns 50"]]>> I wouldn't put too much stock in the agent-shell business. It's got junior dev written all over it, and they're the most vocal.

(completing-read "How should I take this?" '("ouch" "lol" " ̄\\_(ツ)_/ ̄"))

]]>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 02:27:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283861xenodiumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283861https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283861<![CDATA[agent-shell 0.87 Updates]]>Article URL: https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-87-updates

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151655

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]]>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:37:14 +0000https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-87-updatesxenodiumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151655https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151655<![CDATA[New comment by xenodium in "Apple Pass Designer"]]>Creating Wallet cards always struck me as unnecessarily cumbersome, even for devs, let alone end-users. They are are often forced to open iOS apps to merely display a QR code.

A friend and I created a fun little project to enable us (and anyone) to create cards from the web https://kitty.cards

]]>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 10:37:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942998xenodiumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942998https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942998<![CDATA[Agent-Shell 0.78 Updates]]>Article URL: https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-78-updates

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49813345

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]]>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:55:52 +0000https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-78-updatesxenodiumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49813345https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49813345<![CDATA[New comment by xenodium in "Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out"]]>Support vendor agnostic tools offering agent integrations through the likes of Agent Client Protocol https://agentclientprotocol.com

ps. I built Emacs integration through ACP https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell

]]>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:27:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566808xenodiumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566808https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566808<![CDATA[New comment by xenodium in "Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode"]]>Wonderful to hear. Thank you sir!

]]>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:39:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476007xenodiumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476007https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476007<![CDATA[New comment by xenodium in "Show HN: Agent-shell – vendor-neutral chat with AI agents in Emacs"]]>I recently read someone [1] make the case for a sweet spot blending the best of CLI agents (fast, keyboard-driven, in a terminal) and desktop agents (rich UI: inline images, diffs).

This resonated with me as fairly on point to what agent-shell has been going for, except from inside Emacs, which arguably gets you plenty of goodies at once: it's fast and text/keyboard-driven like a terminal, also renders inline images, markdown and tables like a desktop app, but with first class integration into your text editor (no context switch). Also, since it's all elisp, you can bend any of it to your own workflow.

This release pulls more of that desktop-like experience with richer TAB navigation, actionable items (resizable images) and a more chat-like experience.

Also worth highlighting, agent-shell is vendor-neutral: it speaks ACP, so you can drive Claude, Codex, Gemini... without relearning your tools.

Repo: https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell (also on MELPA). Full 0.73 notes: https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-73-updates. Feedback welcome.

[1] Sorry, I read this somewhere recently but couldn't find it again.

]]>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:44:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309774xenodiumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309774https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309774<![CDATA[Show HN: Agent-shell – vendor-neutral chat with AI agents in Emacs]]>Article URL: https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-73-updates#agent-shell-enters-the-chat

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309755

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]]>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:42:16 +0000https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-73-updates#agent-shell-enters-the-chatxenodiumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309755https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309755<![CDATA[New comment by xenodium in "My Emacs Configuration (Dired)"]]>Tangentially related, I wrote https://github.com/xenodium/dwim-shell-command to save all sorts of command invocations (I'm looking at you ffmpeg) and easily batch apply to dired files. Here's a demo video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77NtPfgr4x0

]]>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:58:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040898xenodiumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040898https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040898<![CDATA[Show HN: LMNO.lol – An entire blog in a single Markdown file]]>Article URL: https://lmno.lol

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009772

Points: 2

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]]>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:54:02 +0000https://lmno.lolxenodiumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009772https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009772<![CDATA[Agent-Shell 0.63 Updates]]>Article URL: https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-63-updates

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009334

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]]>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:25:31 +0000https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-63-updatesxenodiumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009334https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009334<![CDATA[New comment by xenodium in "ytr: YouTube Radio for Emacs"]]>About that, mine loves Munetaka Murakami's fight song https://www.yakyu-ouen.net/murakami-munetaka, so I had plenty of chances to memorize the words.

This is lovely too :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSBT4ES9b9U&list=RDLSBT4ES9b...

edit: Thanks for Angine de Poitrine!

]]>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:09:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48641005xenodiumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48641005https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48641005<![CDATA[New comment by xenodium in "ytr: YouTube Radio for Emacs"]]>Thanks! It’s an undecorated frame. I wanted a “widget” experience of sorts.

]]>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:11:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639753xenodiumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639753https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639753<![CDATA[New comment by xenodium in "ytr: YouTube Radio for Emacs"]]>> Extra impressive considering he has a newborn at home.

My newborn is on board! Nursery rhymes on YT ftw ;)

]]>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:58:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639653xenodiumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639653https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639653<![CDATA[New comment by xenodium in "ytr: YouTube Radio for Emacs"]]>Glad to hear it worked as advertised! Sorry, not super familiar with evil (on vanilla keys here). Please send a PR if you find out how to configure for evil so we can document in README.

]]>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:52:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639610xenodiumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639610https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639610<![CDATA[ytr: YouTube Radio for Emacs]]>Article URL: https://xenodium.com/ytr-youtube-radio-for-emacs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636380

Points: 145

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]]>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:21:08 +0000https://xenodium.com/ytr-youtube-radio-for-emacsxenodiumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636380https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636380<![CDATA[Bending Emacs Ep. 14: Prototype iOS apps with agent-shell artist-mode and skills [video]]]>Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fdHeUoRRgg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619636

Points: 33

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]]>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:12:22 +0000https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fdHeUoRRggxenodiumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619636https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619636<![CDATA[Agent-Shell 0.55 Updates]]>Article URL: https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-55-updates

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48493273

Points: 62

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]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:17:57 +0000https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-55-updatesxenodiumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48493273https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48493273<![CDATA[New comment by xenodium in "A History of IDEs at Google"]]>While most IDEs converged to a unified web solution, pockets of devoted users continued to volunteer improvements/integrations for their preferred editors.

During my time there, a relatively small, but fairly active Emacs group, would often share tips, tricks, and elisp integrating the latest internal tools.

]]>Thu, 14 May 2026 11:20:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133863xenodiumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133863https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133863<![CDATA[Show HN: Kitty.cards – Create Apple Wallet cards online (no login)]]>Article URL: https://kitty.cards/

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

Points: 3

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]]>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:54:26 +0000https://kitty.cards/xenodiumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482603https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482603