Lobsters client for Emacs

51 points by andros

cve

I am not an Emacs user myself, but the screenshots look great! I also really love the embracing of emojis here. 13 y/o me said that they were redundant but present day me says, that they give everything a more lively feeling. 😊

andros

Thank you!

makishimu

And if you are not an Emacs user, but for some reason want an alternative client too, @ranfdev made a client written using GTK4 and ClojureScript.

andros

I’ve read the code, and it’s very good. I love the integration with GTK4 + Clojurescript
- ranfdev
  
  Thanks! I haven’t updated that in a while, since I’ve moved to other projects, but I’m glad you like the code.
  
  Clojure(Script) is perfect to describe UIs declaratively, as data. And Clojure atoms can easily represent mutable data that you can observe.
  
  I was also able to develop parts of the application from the REPL, changing and inspecting the live state of the app.
  
  It was mostly an experiment. A really fun one
crmsnbleyd

Looks great and will definitely install it! What does “melpa: in progress mean?” PR not merged yet?
- andros
  
  The PR exists, I’m waiting for it to be approved :)
donio

Looks nice, I will give it a go. Authenticated access would be very useful even for read functionality since many of us use tag filtering.

mastodon.el is another Emacs-based frontend I use all the time. That one has been in development for a few years so it’s more full featured. It’s very nice to be able to compose my toots in a proper Emacs buffer rather than a browser textarea.
- andros
  
  Is there an API to do this?
  
  As a matter of interest, the author of mastodon.el congratulated me
  - msfjarvis
    
    Technically speaking there is no such thing as a Lobsters API, it’s just Rails being really insistent about pushing JSON if you put . json at the end of a route. pushcx recently reiterated that here.
    
    If you want to do authenticated access you’ll have to extract the lobsters_trap cookie from a logged in session of a browser and use it in requests.
- omidmash
  
  Not only does it work, but it works very well!
- Student
  
  Why don’t I have emacs on my iPhone?
  - atmosx
    
    Because it’s not a Nokia 9000
    
    (j/k no idea if eMacs runs on the N900)
  - koala
    
    (Emacs user here…) Wouldn’t vi work better on a software keyboard?
    
    I have the fancy Linux VM on my Pixel, but I dread using Emacs on a touchscreen. (Although apparently later Emacs versions have some touchscreen support.)
    
    I should try one of those Blackberry-style Raspberry Pi kits. But I suspect none has a decent keyboard (i.e. Blackberry quality. Damn, that was two steps above anything else.) The Clicks for Razr looks nifty…
- informal
  
  Remind me the terminal reader of HackerNews
  
  Just out of curiosity, I want to know whether there’re some people often really visit HackerNews or Lobsters by terminal