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Disclaimer: I am not responsible for what people (other than myself) write in the forums. Please report any abuse, such as insults, slander, spam and illegal material, and I will take appropriate actions. Don't feed the trolls.

Jag tar inget ansvar för det som skrivs i forumet, förutom mina egna inlägg. Vänligen rapportera alla inlägg som bryter mot reglerna, så ska jag se vad jag kan göra. Som regelbrott räknas till exempel förolämpningar, förtal, spam och olagligt material. Mata inte trålarna.

Jul 2026

Live at Wood Chip Fest 2026

Anonymous
Fri 3-Jul-2026 10:18
Loving your live versions, Linus! I'm currently learning to play the bayan (B-type chromatic button accordion) and just seeing your fingering is surprisingly helpful.

Would it be alright to add the audio to Nectarine rotation, so that you join the likes of Reyn and Romeo Knight?
Thank you in advance!
--MyO / Nectarine
Anonymous
Tue 14-Jul-2026 13:25
If Albert Einstein had a C64...! Great and entertaining again LFT. But where is the 1541 DrumSet? ~:-P

The Chipophone

Anonymous
Fri 17-Jul-2026 14:28
Wish you good health!

A case against syntax highlighting

Anonymous
Tue 21-Jul-2026 20:52
One day, I noticed that RocqIDE's context window, at least by default, does not apply syntax highlighting. After giving it some thought, I decided that was very much for the best, since I wanted my eyes to focus on the domain-specific structure of the theory I'm working with, not Rocq's rote and clerical keywords (fun, fix, match, etc). Even for terms defined entirely by the theory, I want my eyes to quickly "rehighlight", reinterpret what they are looking at to help spot useful maneuvers, not unlike, when playing chess, shifting focus from "what happens if I move this bishop" to "what happens if I move this knight".

Now, I'm starting to find that, more generally, syntax highlighting is a significant impediment to skimming code effectively. Those splashes of color, by emphasizing the clerical structure of the language, make it difficult to grasp the structure of the writer's intuition. Your article confirms my thinking that this is not just a personal quirk.

I am very unfond of what they are calling "AI" these days. I don't know whether beating this drum would really make the situation better (by raising the bar on code quality) or worse (by improving code review just enough to keep rickety ships at sea).

Rodents in the Attic

Anonymous
Fri 31-Jul-2026 10:28
Absolutely stunning! Thank you for the brilliant explanation.