A Makefile is good for this, and why not checking it into git?

Is there a recommended modern day, non mac specific, equivalent to those "Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines" linked at the beginning of the article?

Willing to accept AI agents can replace programmers

Not willing to accept ex-US devs can do a comparable job at half the price

I started with prelude[1], I wanted something batteries included to use as my main editor right away, but not as structurally different from vanilla as Doom or Spacemacs. Then after a couple of years I rewrote my config line by line looking at what prelude did and keeping only what I needed.

I’m happy with result, but this was 7 years ago so there may be better options than prelude to do something similar today.

[1] https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

I built that feature (auto mark as read by scrolling) into my feed reader if you’re up to self host and curate your sources

https://github.com/facundoolano/feedi

I did try to build a public facing news aggregator with a similar ux but I couldn’t pull it off purely based on client side state (and I didn’t want to do user management)

I'm with you on not wanting to do user management, feature creep, user data security concerns, etc.

> I’ve been using Magit at work because it’s what everyone uses.

Where do you work?

I don’t share work details. But everybody on my team uses either Emacs or Spacemacs. There are people at work who use other tools, like VS Code for sure, but Emacs and Spacemacs usage are widespread.

When I say “everyone” uses Magit, I want to clarify that I’m being hyperbolic.

so other than that what's heaven like

A lot of consensus building with technical people who ask hard questions.

Code review is kind of brutal.

A lot of time spent dealing with custom systems that should have been replaced with off-the-shelf, open-source alternatives like five or ten years ago.

I have the same issue, the chronological nature of feeds kind of breaks this flow. It feels like there’s a missing piece, like a standard to browse older content from a blog. I Wrote a bit about this here: https://olano.dev/blog/web-anthologists/

I wrote my own org-mode static generator: https://github.com/facundoolano/jorge

More robust than my previous emacs setup and much lighter than hugo. No fancy babel generation but I don’t really need that.

As a non native English speaker/writer there are a bunch of errors I miss, no matter how much attention I pay and how much I proofread, and these tools are useful to catch those.

you should try the reader then https://github.com/facundoolano/feedi