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Joined November 2024
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I need to bring back some tomfoolery into my life
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We've been early adopters of Rust since 2018 and a lot of our infra, voice tech, and even some of the current client is already Rust, the holy grail was getting the whole client there. That means Electron goes away, and so does React Native, mobile keeps native UI but shares app code with desktop via Rust. We hope to get it into testing with users soon™. (And it's not Tauri, it's GPUI, so good guess everyone.) Alright, back to staring at the WoW Forever login screen.
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We got your back, New York!
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Several figures here aren’t federal results or NY-specific. The $472B combines US wide pledges: Micron's $250B is nationwide (NY site $100B) Anthropic's $50B covers TX and NY. The 48% murder drop is from NY's state run GIVE program (28 departments, Jan – May 2026). arkolith.com/news/news-micr… therepublic.com/?p=843020 governor.ny.gov/news/safer-str…
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Meet GPUI Motion A Motion-inspired animation library for native Rust interfaces Springs, layout transitions, drag & snap, and animated text
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We've wanted to build this since we founded Zed - a new collaborative development workflow without all of the limitations of pull requests. Over the past few months, our team has made the the switch, and it's been so cool.
Delta is now in public beta. It’s a multiplayer environment for coding with agents and reviewing what they build, with every code change linked to the conversation that produced it. Anyone can download it today on macOS, Linux, and Windows: delta.dev/download
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Replying to @huacnlee
Hey Jason, we will start working on infra to automatically publish GPUI releases by the end of the month. For now, GPUI will remain in the Zed repo, but we're aiming for more frequent releases as a goal.
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Delta is the most beautiful piece of software I’ve used in a long time. Thank @zeddotdev for creating this! Δ
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gpui-base 重构已经正式合并了 🎉 开发跨平台桌面应用、又想深度定制 UI?gpui-base 提供了稳定、完善的 GPUI 基础能力(比如 Scrollbar, Input, 多行文本框),也是 GPUI Component 的基础。 GPUI Component 官网也已重新设计,现在可以通过 WASM 在线预览每一个组件: longbridge.github.io/gpui-co…
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girlfriend overheard me and started yelling at me asking me “who the fuck is kimmy” “why the fuck are you talking about chinese models”
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It's not just the government abusing camera surveillance anymore. The private market is doing it too. I parked my car in a lot and paid ParkMobile $10.55. Later, I received an $85 bill in the mail because, according to them, it took me extra time to drive around looking for a space, park, and then I overstayed by a few minutes. Their cameras recorded the exact time my car entered and exited the lot, and they claim the right to bill me for every minute my vehicle was on the property—even while I was still searching for a parking spot. Not long ago, many people would have called that excessive or even extortionate. Today, in an age of ubiquitous cameras and automated enforcement, it's increasingly treated as normal. My only gripe with George Orwell is that 1984 didn't go far enough. It imagined a world where surveillance was primarily a tool of the state. What it missed was how eagerly private companies would embrace the same technology—not just to monitor people, but to monetize every possible moment. @Parkmobile
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Since the @bunjavascript folks recently wrote about their experience moving from Zig to Rust, it seemed like a good time to write about our experience rewriting @roc_lang from Rust to Zig! rtfeldman.com/rust-to-zig
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Liberal women are the reason you’re allowed to be in Congress
Liberal women are going to get ALL of us killed.
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Yet another reason the Athas project is impressive, it's a solo project! I couldn't imagine working on Zed alone
I know it has a lot of problems, it's hard to do it solo and limited resources (I'm freelancing to make money). But I promise I'm not adding more slop but instead fixing the problems every day slowly.
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Couldn't agree more with this take, specially because the creators of Zed also made Electron for Atom and Zed's app framework (GPUI)
i find myself struggling to agree with this. perhaps electron is the best we have got for now in terms of cross platform development, but that is largely due to the fact that webdev toolings have received much more attention/investment compared to alternatives. zed with 5 tabs + 3 terminals uses 20-30% less memory compared to vscode with just the project open and nothing else. zed is also much more responsive and has a noticably lower keystroke latency. we got here not because chromium is inherently the superior choice for cross platform dev, but because we settled. few dared to build something better because it's easier to walk the beaten path. zed is a living proof that it *is* possible to build a polished, cross-platform native program, but it is only possible because the zed team dared to defy the status quo and built the entire ui stack from scratch in rust. to reject other solutions because chromium is good engineering (which it is!) is to dismiss engineering efforts put into native frameworks too. (they are good engineering too, so why aren't we using them?) so far, gpui is the only framework that feels like it's a right step in the direction towards a better future. it is easy to grasp and feels familiar enough that it won't take long for any seasoned rust dev to pick up. what we need is not more electron apps. we need better cross platform primitives that is as easy to build with as web dev, without the cost (which consumers pay) of deploying electron apps, and we need better education for alternative solutions.
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It uses GPUI too
OpenLogi is a native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+ written in Rust, controlling HID++ mice without an account or telemetry. - Interactive GUI with clickable mouse diagram and action picker - 37 built-in actions plus recorded custom keyboard shortcuts - DPI presets, SmartShift toggle, and per-application profile overlays - CLI for headless device inventory and diagnostics
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We're fuming after hearing Bieber stopped his Coachella set (wknd 2) to check on his agents. 😡
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Replying to @aevsai
a wizard is never late frodo baggins
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Zeta2 is here. 30% better acceptance rate than Zeta1. 200x more training data, LSP-powered context, faster predictions, open weights. Try it now in Zed. We didn't just improve the model. We rebuilt the entire data pipeline behind it: zed.dev/blog/zeta2
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Lebanon is currently being ethnically replaced on a scale equivalent to the naakba, and the media is hardly saying a word. Civilian neighborhoods demolished, with no false pretext like 10/7 to justify this genocide. How can the world continue to let Israel get away with this?
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I want to live in a country where using Spanish in a 15-minute halftime performance doesn't cause more outrage than men r*ping children for decades.
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