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joefitzgeraldon Zed 1.0

Zed really is delightful to use. I haven't had any need to open VSCode in over a year. Extending it has been relatively simple, even as someone who doesn't know Rust well.

The Zed team seem to have really learned their lesson on performance from the Atom days, because it's very performant. @nathansobo, @maxbrunsfeld, @as-cii and the team, congrats!

joefitzgeraldon Zed is now available on Windows

There is a feature that lets you share your screen. It shows up for other participants in the collaboration session as a tab in the editor.

joefitzgeraldon A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

> Why can't the AirTag simply report its battery status and warn the user e.g. through a nearby iPhone?

This is precisely how an AirTag works. It reports its battery status[1] via a notification to the user on an iPhone.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102600

joefitzgeraldon A random dungeon generator that fits on a business card (2019)

If you were wondering about the tribute to Ginny, here's the context: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2022/02/13/stupid-dog/.

joefitzgeraldon Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better

Safari’s version of this also allows you to associate specific sites with specific profiles [0].

[0]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212544#links

joefitzgeraldon San Francisco’s Financial Crisis

I use my adaptation of Hanlon’s razor frequently:

> Never mistake for stupidity that which is explained by incentive structure.

Seems to fit here also!

joefitzgeraldon Go debugger using delve for Atom

Precompiled binaries for OS X are coming: https://github.com/derekparker/delve/issues/494

joefitzgeraldon Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users

https://github.com/atom/metrics#collected-data

Metrics collection can be disabled by the user, and this option is also presented to the user on first load of Atom.

joefitzgeraldon Developing Atom Packages, Part 2: So Much Potential, So Many Bugs

There's a general tide moving towards ES6 in the Atom community, and away from CoffeeScript. See https://github.com/atom-community/environment for an example package. That doesn't mean all existing packages will be rewritten overnight, but it does mean you'll see a shift, even in core packages.

joefitzgeraldon Atom 1.0

The killer feature of Atom to me is the ease with which it can be extended (via packages) and the openness to community contribution on core features. That's not a knock against any other editor (some of which share similar characteristics in this regard) – it's just what draws me to Atom.

It's super easy to hack on and contribute to.

joefitzgeraldon Atom's autocomplete just got better

freshyill: please see https://github.com/atom/autocomplete-plus/issues/460 for further information.

joefitzgeraldon Atom's autocomplete just got better

A huge thanks to the Atom team (https://github.com/benogle in particular) for embracing a community package and bringing it back into the core of Atom.

This is the killer feature of Atom in my mind: the community around it, and the rate with which contributions can be made and then absorbed into the core.

joefitzgeraldon Go, robots and refactoring

This is a really helpful article - nice work Matt.