The "enshittification" hasn't happened yet. They'll add ads and other gross stuff to the free or cheap tiers. Some will continue to use it, but there will be an opportunity for self-hosted models to emerge.

I absolutely adore TextMate, but it hasn't kept up. It will often fail to respond to the `mate` terminal command, or it will take many seconds to start even on my mostly vanilla M4 Max.

Needs moar BBEdit. It's my daily driver on my M3 MBP at work and it and its `bbedit` shell helper (which I alias to `bb` for brevity) are never something I have to wait on: https://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/current_notes.html

I really want a fixed-width font. I know most people dislike writing prose with monospace fonts. But I'm a developer, and proportional fonts always feel wrong.

I'm on the same camp with you, however when you're writing technical documents, you need both, and Inter [0] is a really nice proportional font.

[0]: https://rsms.me/inter/

Well, talk to a script writer, they only write on Courier typeface

Chicken feed can be nutritionally complete. We've industrialized chicken nutrition.

Not sure if it's still in use, but for a very long time, AWS billing relied on getting usage data via rsync.

Watt is not a unit of energy but instead a unit of power. A brain may need 20 watts, but it may use 20 watts for a lot more time than ChatGPT would.

The brain may ultimately be more power-efficient, but the units you want are watt-hours.

Why is it "abusing," and what would you suggest as an alternative?

Have a look an their code, it is obvious. Often you have to figure out what actually the macros does, and I remember it was not that straight forward.

And the macro language is specific to nasm.

What to do: unroll the macros and/or use a little abstraction using a simple common macro preprocessor, aka not tied to the assembler.

And I am just doing exactly that: my x86_64 assembly code does assemble with fasm/nasm/gas with a little abstraction using a C preprocessor.

To be fair, nasm allows you to detach the preprocessor from the assembler (-E). But I agree with you in general.

there is nothing wrong with depending on nasm

Yes, it is since you can with a little C preprocessor abstraction assemble with fasm/gas/nasm.

Could there be a different smell or air-flow coming from one side versus the others?

My apartment building has identical elevator lobbies. I thought my dog was smart by not leaving the elevator on seemingly identical incorrect floors. But actually I think she just knows what home smells like.

Not sure, but I wouldn't think so. They'd basically spring out of the elevator with no hesitation.

Really cute. But I really want the ability to put the different tabs -- Brief, Workspace, Schema -- side-by-side. I know SQL and wanted to play with this, but the UX was frustrating enough to drive me away, even though it is really pretty.

+1 to this. Remembering the schema is kind of a big barrier when you're just jumping in, and that's when you want to be able to explore at random the most.

(I also struggled with the schema because crime_scene was singular and suspects was plural!)

I agree. I also wish it was possible to run multiple queries in the same window e.g.:

  select * from crime_scene;
  select * from suspects;

    SELECT
      cs.*,
      s.*
    FROM crime_scene cs
    FULL JOIN
      suspects s ON cs.id = s.id;

This maintains zero relationship between the tables, of course, but it shows you both. You could also specify individual columns.

Yes! I just implemented a "Side By Side" view that will enable you to view 2 separate tabs side by side. Only on Desktop.

That's a good suggestion. I'm not sure if screen real estate won't be a problem though.

Maybe modeled after browser dev tools. Big display at the top, small repl at the bottom with a dragged to resize. Also tab structure and the “menu” are chewing up a lot of vertical real estate for two classes of data most users won’t see as separate.

The schema ui seems to be big because of the graph display… which is not at all done baking yet. The hard part of displaying graphs is the pathing, and the very first one I opened has an arrow coming from the left, going across the mode, and attaching to the right side. In a perfectly horizontal line. That’s gonna need to cook a lot longer. It it worth having a bad vis over having no vis?

Just implemented it. Looks really nice on Desktop. Nice and compact.

I get you're being snarky, but I'll politely push back.

I remained skeptical for a long time. Then I got one. I absolutely love it. In particular, the ability to have multiple notebooks with me and cross-linking via tags. And "infinite pages" lets you insert space in the middle of a page or continue moving down without having to worry about physical page sizes. I can also screen-share the tablet with the desktop app to draw diagrams on zoom calls.

Admittedly, it is only incremental over a spiral notebook and a bic pen. But they do that incremental thing pretty well, particularly because of their focus on the "calm tech" aspects and lack of mainstream ecosystem to track upstream.

I had the opposite experience. I am an avid note taker, love the idea of a remarkable and got one for all the benefits you mentioned, especially the screen share part and just found it unsatisfying. Couldn't stick with it, wound up sending it back and going back to pen and paper