I think this is an excellent consideration of how the principles of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance can apply to programming. I've always strived for Quality in my work, and I struggle today to balance that Quality with speed as I leverage coding agents more and more. I'm able to build whatever I want -- the gap is my domain expertise and taste. Before, my domain was "building and maintaining excellent software" but, these days, that's not enough.

Do you manually translate or translate with an LLM? While reading, I was wondering how common these kinds of written tics are in languages outside English.

Nice project! Curious why build a new front end instead of fixing (?) the behaviour in upstream Kakoune? I think the original author’s still working on Kakoune

I'm guessing part of it is design philosophy: mawww doesn't want splits embedded in the editor, for example.

the original kakoune is just cli; the binary has a json ui client option to allow communication with the kakoune server, with the intent of any gui or alternative client being separated from the kak binary/repo. that being said, this seems entirely ai-generated :( i had planned to write a kakoune frontend that supported rtl text (arabic in particular) + unicode, prop fonts, etc., and might look to how some things were done here, but i'd be blown away if this didn't have a great number of rough edges w.r.t. line wrap, unicode, rtl, etc. ...

Having built some stuff with Tauri, being able to debug using Chrome instead of a Safari/Webkit console would be _so nice_.

I have no idea about timeline, progress, or suitability, but IIUC the Tauri folks are exploring integration with Chromium Embedded Framework:

https://github.com/tauri-apps/cef-rs

https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/14963#issuecommen... and following comments

https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues?q=CEF

Absolutely not the same thing, but I’m going to shamelessly plug my Tauri MCP in case you find it helpful: https://github.com/hypothesi/mcp-server-tauri

With the debugging capabilities it gives agents, I find I don’t miss Chrome DevTools so much.

But it is a browser -- just not a web browser

directory perhaps less confusing.

“NPM registry directory” sounds terribly confusing in my opinion, reads like a grammatical mishap

then maybe "npm registry search"?

I would not recommend driving over the Juan de Fuca strait

> 90,000 people live in the core, which is about the maximum daytime population of Disneyland. More people live in the greater capital district (400,000), but because Victoria is subject to very particular microclimates, the further you get from the city itself, the worse the weather becomes

True, but outside of the City of Victoria is Saanich, the largest municipality of the 13 that make up the Capital Regional District. Saanich has roughly the same climate and another ~110k.

Also, anecdotally, despite the smaller population, Victoria is a tourist destination and swallows cruise ships worth of passengers with ease. If you want to visit, come visit. You'll find all the amenities you need.

Good point about Saanich. It would be near the top of the list of places I'd want to live in the region if Victoria itself was off the list

you can also make your way along the south coast out to the ocean, and quickly get out of civilization. the larger "Victoria" is quickly growing westward

To me it beats Vancouver for nature access. You don't have to get stuck on the Lionsgate Bridge for two hours to get into nature

They created a fascinating tool -- I'll be following your progress to see what you build!

I hope qntm has the chance to traditionally publish Ra and have it edited as well. I enjoyed the book a lot, but felt it needed a solid once over.

Really enjoyed the novel though! Planning to reread it in the spring.