I am a PhD candidate at the University of Utah . My advisor is Ben Greenman . I graduated with my bachelor’s degree in computer science from Brigham Young University in 2022.
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I got asked a good question today: what is the difference between Tree-sitter and a language server ? I don’t understand how either of these tools work in depth, so I’m just going to explain from an observable , pragmatic point of view.
Bedrock is a minimal, human-crafted starter-kit for Emacs, and today I’m pleased to announce that version 2.0 of Bedrock is available! This release requires Emacs 31, which came out in August 2026. If you are unable to upgrade Emacs that high, you should be able to remove some of the Emacs 31-specific config without…
There’s something icky about LLM-generated text when you think it’s written by a human. I think I finally put my finger on one reason why I feel this way.
Wikipedia cites a few different sources on what “Unix Philosophy” is. Peter Salus summarizes it as: