I have officially retired from Emacs

kept by eddie may 09

Chris Wellons retired from Emacs after 20 years, replacing its tools like Elfeed with native C++ GUI apps built using AI assistance.

Making RSS More Fun
Hacker News commenters debate making RSS more engaging through algorithmic curation and discovery while cautioning against replicating TikTok's endless scroll model.
also on Elfeed
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 Vim, Emacs, #ai-coding, #productivity, #developer-tools
The Productivity Mirage / frantic.im
The author learned that programming productivity stems from problem focus and intuition, not from elaborate editor setups, after observing a prolific engineer using minimal tools.
also on Vim, #productivity, #developer-tools