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Jul 16, 2017 at 15:26
I am deeply impressed with the work in Prettier to lay out code in an attractive way. https://github.com/prettier/prettier/releases/tag/1.5.0 (beginning to feel like TeX!)

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Aug 10, 2024 at 23:21
Today I learnt that Emacs 28 shipped a context-menu-mode! https://oylenshpeegul.gitlab.io/blog/posts/20230129/ This seems quintessentially Emacs: deeply hackable, but building UI features in an order very different to the mainstream.
Context menus in Emacs 28!
Today I learned that Emacs 28 added context-menu-mode so that we can easily add context menus. This is a minor mode which you can toggle with M-x context-menu-mode RET but I added hooks to enable it for text mode and a couple others (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'context-menu-mode) (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'context-menu-mode) (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'context-menu-mode) I did not hook prog mode because some of the fancier lsp things already use mouse-3.
Apr 27, 2021 at 06:30
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Pharo 9 will also be available as a Linux package in several major distros! https://thepharo.dev/2021/04/09/installing-pharo-in-linux-using-the-system-package-manager/ For most languages this is no big deal, but it's much harder for a deeply mutable image-based environment.
Installing Pharo in Linux using the System Package Manager
Installing Pharo in Linux using the System Package Manager
One of the improvements that we are including in Pharo 9 is the update of the build process in OpenBuildService. This service allows us to produce packages for different distributions of Linux. The…
Jun 20, 2020 at 22:03
"Apple could [..] deeply integrate the operating system and the design of the chip itself to [..] bring new features and capabilities to market." https://stratechery.com/2020/apple-arm-and-intel/ Are there real benefits of a bespoke CPU+OS combo? I'm struggling to imagine concrete things it enables.