miniblog.

GNU Make defaults to a single worker, and newer build tools (e.g. ninja) default to the number of physical CPUs. I wish there was an option for 'leave me a little bit of my machine to do stuff'.

One interesting design choice in Emacs that I haven't seen in other editors: reserved shortcuts. An Emacs extension shouldn't use F5 through F12, or Ctrl-c LETTER. This lets users configure their own shortcuts. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Key-Bindings.html Does it exist elsewhere? I miss it in VS Code, where e.g. all the Fn keys are already assigned.

Achievement unlocked: when trying to work around an Emacs bug with long lines and pipes: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6149#19 I hit a bug in Cask, the Emacs environment manager! https://github.com/cask/cask/pull/596 Software is hard.