Fine, I’ll build my own text editor! – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)

kept by eddie sep 02

David Bushell experiments with canvas, contenteditable, and textarea for a DIY text editor, concluding that textarea offers the best performance and accessibility.

Introducing Microlighter - daverupert.com
MicroLighter is a tiny, zero‑dependency syntax highlighter that leverages the CSS Custom Highlights API and Textmate grammars for on‑demand, theme‑aware code highlighting.
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Zed 1.0 | Hacker News
Zed 1.0 launches with mixed feedback: praised for performance but criticized for missing features, Linux issues, and lack of accessibility support.
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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.
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GitHub - Ataraxy-Labs/sem: Semantic version control => entity-level diffs, blame, and impact analysis on top of git. 26 languages via tree-sitter. Built for coding agents.
sem is an open-source CLI that replaces line-level git diffs with entity-level awareness (functions, classes, methods) using tree-sitter parsing, designed for both human developers and AI coding agents.
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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.
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