There’s something that happens when I pick up a pen that doesn’t happen when I open a new buffer. The thinking is different — less filtered, less structured, more honest. Ideas that would never survive the friction of forming a heading and choosing a tag actually get written down. First drafts of decisions, rough task lists, things I’m trying to work out, all of it lands on paper before it’s ready to be digital.
[Read More]I run macOS Accessibility Zoom at 16× magnification. Not occasionally — all the time, every day. Apple’s built-in screen magnifier has a mode called “Follow keyboard focus” that’s supposed to track your text cursor as you type, keeping it visible on screen. Every app I use does this correctly. Terminal, VS Code, Safari, iTerm2 — they all work. Emacs did not.
For years.
I type something. The cursor moves. The Zoom viewport doesn’t follow. I have to scroll manually to find it again. Then type another character. Repeat. If you’re reading this without needing magnification, the description might sound like a minor inconvenience. It isn’t. It’s the kind of friction that makes a tool feel broken — and I use Emacs all day.
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