Emacs Complete: Feedback Loops in Emacs, Feedback Loops in Computing

If it is representable as text, it can be moved into Emacs. And if Emacs renders as text, it can be moved into other processes to interpret the result, like snapshot tests, e.g. for automated regression testing. The loop is fully closed.

Institutional Knowledge Is a River That Can Dry Up (Don’t Fire All Your Workers)

Fire all your workers because of the potential savings from using LLMs and you may end up choking your company to death.

Introducing quake-frame.el: My Take on a Terminal Visor, But Running Emacs

I used Claude Code to create an Emacs GUI window (frame) package. Press a key. Get Emacs. Press again. It's gone.

Xcode 26 LLM Markdown Summaries Are Actually Useful for Humans

Xcode 26 has a couple of tech docs that are intended to help LLM’s generate modern solutions to coding problems in Swift, but that also contain valuable info for us human readers.

Zettelkasten for Programmers: Documenting Confusing with Swift.SendableMetatype

I got terribly confused reading the API docs on th SendableMetatype protocol. Because I do not yet know the solution, I want to share how I store this in my Zettelkasten for future problem-solving and discussions.

Use clang API notes to Annotate C Header Files for Swifty Module Imports

Doug Gregor shows how to use clang to import a C library with header files that you don’t own in a way that produces very ergonomic Swift APIs with annotations in YAML files.

Auto-Mount Metal Toolchain Using a Launch Service Because Xcode 26 Cannot

Xcode 26 is incapable of compiling Metal shaders on my machine, so I need to help out to mount the appropriate toolchain with a Launch Service