There's a nice-looking series of exercises from fly.io: https://fly.io/dist-sys/

(I haven't actually done them myself yet, but they look great. Not a standalone resource, but good for practice)

Quick example video from Chris McCord using ffmpeg and whisper in Phoenix: https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/whisper-speech-to-text...

He's also behind expand-region! (Although, I've started experimenting with the much-smaller treesitter-based https://github.com/casouri/lunarymacs/blob/master/site-lisp/...)

I'm pretty sure when he wrote all of that stuff that he'd only been using Emacs for around a year. The benefit of someone that talented, or groks Emacs immediately, and is familiar enough with the outside-ecosystem to know what he wants to borrow, I suppose.

If you follow Nims on Instagram he often links to other accounts.

There was a recent (a couple of weeks ago) commit that claims to rectify the long lines performance issue, for what it's worth.

That is really interesting. May you take the effort and identify the commit?

EDIT: Nevermind, search to the rescue

This might be the discussion: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-08/msg00...

These might be the commits: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?...

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/etc/NEWS?...

Also this one I think: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=616da...

Just tried it out. For my personal workflow when working on overlong lines, the performance gain is HUGE! From unusable to actually decent. Not using find-file-literally and even syntax highlighting enabled.

That's great to hear, thanks! I haven't tested it in anger yet, and I'm not going to pretend to understand the display-code changes.

They're loved by crop farmers where I live too (I also learnt recently), but they're illegal to cultivate because they're an introduced species.

(Now that I write that, I assume honeybees are too, but perhaps the honey industry is well entrenched)

> They're loved by crop farmers where I live too (I also learnt recently), but they're illegal to cultivate because they're an introduced species.

Unlike the crops?

I recently started actively bookmarking pages again recently (after being an early Pinboard customer, but not a particularly busy one). I wrote a script to email me 5 random bookmarks every day, so now I treat bookmarking as a "like" button; something I find interesting at the time, and may want to rediscover in the future. I rarely use bookmarks to find something I'm searching for though.

You can use tree-sitter already if you have dynamic module support: https://github.com/emacs-tree-sitter/elisp-tree-sitter

I recently created a daily "random 5 bookmarks" email using GitHub actions and Pinboard's API. I love it; it's a serendipitous reminder of things I once thought were interesting, and now I bookmark things with abandon just so they may show up again. I rarely use bookmarks to find something again because search is still low-friction, but that assumes I know what I'm looking for.

This is really a good idea, a new way to consume rotten bookmarks.

All this time I thought it was a John Cale song! (Granted I'd never checked)

Edit: Huh, he did produce it, played on the original recording, and then released his cover before the original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso_(song)