I've been following Douglas Rushkoff for about a decade now. He's written books about this for the last 10-15 years, and his podcast 'team human'interviews some very interesting people.

I don't know about this article, but Douglas is as real as they come. I'm not sure why people here are being cynical.

Probably because The DR is as real as they come, and "it's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it". Who wants to be told they're the reason civil society broke? Unfortunately for them, Nuremberg established a precedent where "just following orders" is not an excuse.

Does anyone use SketchApp to design at all? Just curious, I thought Photoshop was being replaced..

Yes, millions of designers use Sketch, Invision and Adobe XD. Photoshop is getting disrupted at every low end feature-set. Photoshop will remain the standard for complex image editing despite AI or whatever, because decades of cutting edge research and patents.

Photoshop is still an industry standard, but more and more companies switch to Sketch or some alternative. My ex is a designer and I've seen her doing some projects in Sketch when the client borrowed a Mac :)

Second this. I am not a dev - Learned about emacs from an article that was posted on HN. Took me about a week to know the most basic things, I still don't know enough to use emacs regularly, but it's a great, distraction-free environment to work in.

This is the article that got my started: https://blog.fugue.co/2015-11-11-guide-to-emacs.html

Agree! I am not a developer or an overly technical person and I recently started using Emacs because of an article here (using ido and org mode). I like it but I'm not fluent enough, or know enough of what it does to switch to it for everyday tasks - but there's a beauty in navigating file systems, creating files, switching windows all with your keyboard.

Does anyone know if you can actually write code on Emacs, like HTML/CSS/Javascript?

Does anyone know if you can actually write code on Emacs, like HTML/CSS/Javascript?

Do you mean modifying Emacs while it is running?

If you switch to the "* scratch * "[1] buffer and type one of these and after each of these either press «Ctrl-J» or «Alt-x eval-print-last-sexp»:

  (message "Hello, World!")

  (setq cursor-type 'hbar)

  (setq cursor-type 'box)

  (setq indicate-empty-lines t)

  (setq show-trailing-whitespace t)

Is this what you meant?

[1] I have no idea how to get a normal asterisk on HN.

> Does anyone know if you can ... on Emacs?

Yes.

Actually this link is all about write front code in Emacs, that's why it's named `frontmacs` I guess. Yeah, currently I am write frontend code inside emacs. Nothing special. I just used few major modes. js2-mode/web-mode/css(sass)-mode, there is typescript mode. Only for syntax highlighting. I don't use auto-complete thing.

If you mean using emacs as your code editor then yes, that's the main purpose of emacs for most users. However there's other hidden eastereggs such as M-x pong, M-x tetris or why not try M-x doctor if you're feeling a bit down.

Your question seems to confuse some, do you mean run elisp interactively or edit HTML/CSS/JavaScript? If so I want to say yes to both.

Signed up!

Welcome :-) I hope it proves valuable.

That's a great story! How long after you started learning JS did you start making the movie app?

Maybe a year give or take, and I ended up building it to scratch my own itch of wanting to find a nice movie to watch over the weekend.