Greg (2017)(blog.samaltman.com)

247 points by admp 2 years ago | 112 comments

Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware(werwolv.net)

78 points by speckx 17 days ago | 15 comments

Blog post describing how the author got childhood Macromedia Director games running on modern hardware by working around old copy-protection mechanisms.

I've acquired a new superpower(danielwirtz.com)

1641 points by wirtzdan 1 year ago | 530 comments

Personal blog post by Daniel Wirtz about learning to quickly spot differences between two similar images, inspired by a German TV show video of a 9-year-old girl.

USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers(werwolv.net)

387 points by WerWolv 6 months ago | 46 comments

A blog post introducing USB concepts for software developers and explaining how to write userspace USB drivers, with C++ examples.

Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI(batsov.com)

169 points by psibi 7 months ago | 114 comments

The days are long but the decades are short (2015)(blog.samaltman.com)

84 points by dbrereton 3 years ago | 54 comments

Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving(rahuljuliato.com)

424 points by frou_dh 4 months ago | 237 comments

A blog post about upcoming Emacs 31 changes the author uses daily; the captured page shows a Vercel 'deployment is temporarily paused' error.

Emacs Lisp Elements(protesilaos.com)

326 points by robenkleene 1 year ago | 50 comments

Online book by Protesilaos Stavrou giving a big-picture overview of the Emacs Lisp programming language, stable version 1.0.0 released 2025-04-12.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

EmacsConf 2024 Notes(sachachua.com)

324 points by JNRowe 1 year ago | 124 comments

Sacha Chua's blog post with organizer notes and reflections on running EmacsConf 2024, including talk counts and BigBlueButton infrastructure.

I just wanted Emacs to look nice – Using 24-bit color in terminals(chadaustin.me)

475 points by signa11 2 years ago | 152 comments

Blog post by Chad Austin on configuring terminals and Emacs to use 24-bit true color so themes like Solarized render properly.

The Emacsification of Software(sockpuppet.org)

394 points by rdslw 5 months ago | 247 comments

A blog post arguing developers want a good Markdown viewer, discussing how LLM agents have revived TUI tooling and an Emacs-like trend in software.