Craft software that makes people feel something

kept by eddie dec 12, 25

Software should be crafted to evoke emotion, prioritizing user delight and personal satisfaction over conventional metrics of success.

Tree-sitter vs. Language Servers
The Hacker News discussion explores the trade-offs between Tree-sitter's incremental parsing for syntax highlighting and Language Server Protocol's semantic features, concluding that combining both yields the best editor experience.
also on Emacs, #user-experience, #software-engineering
Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust - Stack Overflow
Developers trust tools they master through muscle memory, but AI coding agents erode that trust with unpredictable outputs, shifting bottlenecks to review and demanding new processes and cultural alignment.
also on Emacs, #software-engineering
Iterating faster with TypeScript 7
The VS Code team incrementally adopted TypeScript 7, a Go port of the compiler, achieving 4–7× speedups in builds and editor tooling.
also on VS Code, #software-engineering
What are git worktrees, and why should I use them? - The GitHub Blog
Git worktrees let developers work on multiple branches simultaneously without stashing or context-switching, with each branch in its own folder.
also on VS Code, #software-engineering