Emacs Chat 22: Shae Erisson

Notes: notes. https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/05/may-7-emacs-chat-with-shae-erisson/

I chatted with Shae Erisson about Emacs and life.

- Shae Erisson: Haskell, Python, Swedish, knitting, mountain unicycling, contact juggling
- Shae Erisson's blog - 1. DO SOMETHING 2. BRAG ABOUT IT http://www.scannedinavian.com
- Shae Erisson (@shapr@recurse.social) - recurse.social https://recurse.social/@shapr
- shapr/markovkeyboard: keyboard layout that changes by markov frequency · GitHub https://github.com/shapr/markovkeyboard

Chapters:

00:00 Intro
00:57 1999, IRC, community building in Haskell
01:58 Emacs as a light-weight build-your-own-editor toolkit
02:51 LSP, treesitter, Magit, jujutsu, C++, Python, Haskell, rust
03:35 how does a new person experience Emacs? Emacs is always fun.
04:03 Markov keyboard project, moving to Finland, right-handed Dvorak, split keyboard; Jeff Raskin; I am not a koala
06:43 Purpose-specific function keys
07:30 Trackballs, scroll
08:14 1" trackpad rings
08:54 Pair programming: ttyshare, shwim
13:13 Recurse Center, "What is that keyboard? What is that editor?!", Emacs bankruptcy and starter kits
16:06 hippie-expand
17:14 yasnippet
18:52 Function keys
20:02 Org Mode
21:14 Show Org agenda when idle
21:58 Programmers want flow. When programming, light turns red
24:25 ef-themes and modus-themes, season
25:56 htmlize (does this still work on Wayland?)
26:37 lsp-ui-imenu, jumping through rust code
28:25 laptop with 126GB of RAM
29:46 LSP coolness, Haskell, treesitter
31:58 Combobulate
32:46 What else are you using your 126 gigabytes of RAM for?
33:25 TalonVoice
34:45 NixOS, following Steve Purcell about 5 years behind
35:03 envrc
35:52 time-tracking
37:01 taxes with Org Mode, remote lookup
40:55 finding notes with C-s
42:35 Org Mode, managing inbox
46:28 Timestamps
49:12 Org timers
53:53 Org Mode snippets
57:15 Compilation finish function: handle success

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