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Meet mmixdb, part of checksmix — a Unix-style debugger for MMIX. It lets you approach your program from the point of view of the machine state and that's how MMIX is meant to work.
MMIXMMIX is Knuth's 64-bit RISC machine, the one that replaced MIX throughout the current edition of The Art of Computer Programming. It has 256 general-purpose registers, a byte-a...
Are you the victim of a finite automation? You could be entitled to compensation!
A finite automation is a driven process that forces an outcome. An engineer is both an orchestrator and a facilitator. Facilitation always has an answer ready, orchestration has to be known. Left alone, facilitation wins. Call it project myopia. It happens in big companies, whe...
Engineers write prompts as part of the job now, and being able to refer to them in an efficient manner is a valuable improvement to your workflow. Skip pasting file contents into Claude entirely: open find-file (C-x C-f) to surface the path Emacs already knows, select it and cut it into the kill ring (C-a, C-w), cancel out of the prompt without ever loading the file (C-g), th...
When Claude delegates a prompt to a sub-agent, it pastes the whole prompt text into that sub-agent's context by default — thousands of tokens, duplicated, every time. Tell it to hand over a file reference instead of the copied text, and that one change alone can cut input tokens 25-40%.