May I recommend… understanding Emacs's patterns

I think that I tend to agree with this. Emacs is complex, and yet simple; it is simple, and yet complex. I get where the author comes from, thinking that Emacs is easy, because to me it is: having to use that big complicated mess of everything else seems a lot more difficult than using everything within Emacs, where all the code is discoverable and explorable and everything works together. On the other hand, I get where folks who think Emacs is hard are coming from, too: it’s unfamiliar, and unfamiliarity seems like difficulty.

I wish I could reach this level of fascination with a piece of technology like a text editor. To write a blog post with poems and AI-generated rose-flavored artwork musing about its philosophical implications.

I mean that, really.

I miss when writing code used to feel like it meant something - whether that was true or not. I miss when the software and tools I used felt like joining a team and throwing in my lot with a shared set of ideals, like the Rust community vs. the Go community.