Claude Code is getting the full Emacs treatment. Definitely a step up from rigging a terminal wrapper (which I'm still very much doing).
https://github.com/manzaltu/claude-code-ide.el
Echoing Steve Klabnik’s feelings, much of the current state of “AI” discussion amongst the dev community feels unproductive and flat out wrong. No the craft is not going away. Yes the craft is changing - it always has been.
https://steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am-disappointed-in-the-ai-discourse/
The portability of Lua never ceases to amaze
https://davelucia.com/blog/lua-elixir
2025-04-19-22-48-39
Shipped a small little update to fretboard.el that adds support for non-six string tunings! Gotta keep those #Emacs using Ukulele players happy.
2025-04-13-14-01-50
Added a useful little character counter via LiveView socket:
2025-04-13-12-44-15
Added image upload support to wip.skyefreeman.com (which mirrors posts to bluesky/mastodon).
Published an update to broadcast.ex, my #elixir bluesky/mastodon crossposting library. 0.2.0 includes support for posting media + status replies, url + hashtag parsing. Plus a nice lil test suite.
https://github.com/skyefreeman/broadcast.ex
My #emacs package fretboard.el is now available via melpa 🎉
https://github.com/melpa/melpa/pull/9420
My #emacs package fretboard.el now includes support for toggling between scale modes, and viewing notes by name/interval. Working on getting docs cleaned up for inclusion in melpa next.
github.com/skyefreeman/...
Swift version management is finally integrated into the tool chain, and not coupled with Xcode:
https://swift.org/blog/introducing-swiftly_10/
I built an Emacs package for viewing scales and chords on the guitar fretboard 🎸
https://github.com/skyefreeman/fretboard.el
Barely took a week to have a dedicated Claude Code Emacs integration. Amaze.
https://github.com/stevemolitor/claude-code.el
But the treadmill keeps the whole software industry turning.
https://polotek.net/posts/the-frontend-treadmill/
If you need some satire about the current American political situation, my buddy Ford Donovan has got you.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/buyers-of-america-unite
A sign that reads "All I want is to be someone that makes new things and thinks about them."
Still thinking about this sign spotted at the @inkandswitch.com get-together:
Mattt gives a walk through of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the "LSP" for LLM's if you will. Then, casually drops iMCP - a Mac app that is, put simply: the foundational LLM implementation that Apple Intelligence should be. Free and open-source. Kudos.
nshipster.com/model-contex...
I wonder if AI will eventually drag the majority of writers down to a mean, enforcing an unescapable sameness. These are some writers that still got “it”.
https://biblioracle.substack.com/p/writers-who-have-the-juice
You are what you eat just as your worldview is defined by what you read, listen or watch. If you don’t put effort into curating what you consume, it’s probably garbage.
https://usher.dev/posts/2025-03-08-kill-your-feeds/
This 10 year old post by Jisang Yoo is a wonderfully thorough guide on how to read Lisp. For the uninitiated that say "lisp is unreadable, there's too many parens!". Calmly, roll your eyes and forward them this guide:
https://yoo2080.wordpress.com/2014/07/04/it-is-not-hard-to-read-lisp-code/
Xenodium built a streamlined blogging platform called LMNO (not sure what the acronym stands for?). No ads, fair pricing, no bloat. Nice. I echo the sentiment that blogging is making a low-key comeback, and I'm here for it.
https://xenodium.com/blogging-minus-the-yucky-bits-of-modern-web
Have you "touched grass" today? Love this idea.
https://touchgrass.now
An excellent collection of recipes and documented gotchas as we gradually adopt Swift Concurrency in production.
https://github.com/mattmassicotte/ConcurrencyRecipes
I love seeing the xitter exodus result in creative integrations using open alternatives. I might steal this idea on my WIP microblog
https://beej.us/blog/data/mastodon-comments/
“It’s about…being the first person to discover that a PNG image with four bits-per-pixel and an alpha channel crashes the decoder, then having to work around that” prog21.dadgum.com/154.html
Oh great, another thing to worry about
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/an-llm-trained-to-create-backdoors-in-code.html
If you need a laugh this evening, my pal Ford has got you:
"better luck next time, Tyranny—this is the moment Clarence Thomas has been waiting for his entire life."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rel...
I needed a laugh so my wife bought a subscription to The Onion. It does not disappoint. 10/10 would recommend.
Eyyy, there's a NSHipster piece about setting up Ollama locally on a Mac. As always, Mattt's a terrific technical writer.
https://nshipster.com/ollama/
Books to read: Hackers, Cosmos, Contact.
:lolsob:
xcode :sparkles:
Nobody knows xcode
not really
because xcode is unknowable
-- An Xcode build failure haiku, Skye, 2/24/2025.
