CircleMUD VS kanata

Unfortunately the server has a blocking select until there's a new socket for when there's no open sockets to manage. I either have to change the old logic or write some awkward condvar stuff (like here https://github.com/Yuffster/CircleMUD/commit/94c27cc11fda671ede5316e6aadc170889060f5e). It's really sad, the naive version that busy loops when the server has no connections is very chic and then it gets a lot harder to follow.

Here's the original CircleMUD code. Here's a decent write-up of the origin of "proc" as shorthand for a triggered effect. Here's a TIL of someone from another MMO discovering its actual origin.

CircleMUD code from https://github.com/Yuffster/CircleMUD

That's a backronym. Proc is just short for procedure from ancient MUD code, randomness is not necessary or implied. You'll notice the term "mob" for a monster also comes from there, they used to be called "mobiles".

Gotta give a shoutout to kanata[1] which I have used daily for years at this point after giving up on QMK-powered keyboards.

QMK itself is great, but I was never able to find a non-columnar split ISO keyboard to use it with. Eventually I reluctantly settled on the Logitech K860[2] and I'm now happily using my favourite features from QMK with kanata at the software level.

[1]: https://github.com/jtroo/kanata

[2]: If I'm behind the times and there is now a QMK-compatible keyboard that looks like this, please let me know!

This is not in Emacs, but if I can't modify my keyboard's firmware (e.g on a laptop), I use Kanata https://github.com/jtroo/kanata. It works by creating a virtual keyboard in Linux (and uses a filter driver or process hooks in Windows), so it can work in any program as they just see a normal keyboard.

Besides the better caps word (by the way, you can have it in software in Win/Linux apps like https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/blob/main/docs/config.adoc#c...) you can also toggle capslock with e.g. a double tap while having on-hold functionality to the more useful Control, so you still wouldn't need to hold any modifier key

jtroo/kanata: Improve keyboard comfort and usability with advanced customization (github.com)

One particular approach that one might find it interesting is how the configuration is laid out (using S-expression from Lisps).

[0] https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/blob/main/docs/config.adoc

Kanata[0] is amazing. It support both Linux and Windows. But I'm yet to try it on windows because my majority work is on linux.

[0] https://github.com/jtroo/kanata