u/Anxious-Resist8344

We are looking for a nanny for our almost 3-year-old daughter. We are expecting a new baby this September, so we need temporary help for about 6 months until my wife is recovered enough to handle both kids.

I work from home and my wife is a SAHM, so we will always be around. We just need an extra set of hands initially so I can keep working while my wife focuses on the newborn and recovers.

The best candidate we've found so far is wonderful, but there is a unique dynamic: she is the primary caregiver for her 22-year-old daughter, who is non-verbal and uses a wheelchair, and would need to bring her along to our home during her shifts. The nanny assures us that her daughter’s condition wouldn't affect her ability to care for our toddler, but we are naturally feeling a bit hesitant about the logistics.

Has anybody navigated a similar situation (a nanny bringing a dependent requiring significant care)? How did it impact the nanny's ability to keep up with an active toddler? Any advice or questions we should be asking during the trial period would be hugely appreciated!

Disclaimer: I'm not a heavy AI user, I'm just trying to understand the differences between AI harnesses specifically for Emacs and if using the real harness claude-code would even make a difference.

I like agent-shell more than anything else I've tried in Emacs including ECA which I recently configured but never used for anything.

Today I decided to give them both a try to a relatively complicated task (reviewing code) and oh boy, ECA was not only better but thousands of times better.

They both are using the same model and configs so I feel I'm missing something here, agent-shell failed to trigger simple things as bufffer overflows while ECA correctly pointed out the issue and fix. I'm I missing something here? Anybody had experience with this kind of things?

UPDATE: Probably comparing Apples to Oranges... Turns out ECA was using opus 5 while agent-shell was on opus 4.8. I needed to pull the latest NPM package to be able to set the right model for agent-shell.

I write C++ for my day job, but I'm looking to pick up a Lisp as a hobby project. Even though it's a hobby, I want it to be practically useful to my day-to-day workflow. Specifically for writing scripts, automating tasks, and potentially extending my editor (I use Emacs).

I’ve narrowed it down to three choices but I'm having trouble pulling the trigger:

• Guile (Scheme): This seems incredibly useful for general scripting. Guix seems to be a huge plus if I decide to go that route later.

• Emacs Lisp: The obvious choice for immediate practical utility since I'm an Emacs user. Being able to hack my editor sounds great, but I worry it might be too domain-specific if I want to write standalone scripts and other things unrelated to Emacs.

• Common Lisp: This is the one I’m struggling to place. I constantly hear that it has "the best programming books ever written" (Practical Common Lisp, PAIP, etc.), but I fail to see what the killer practical hook is for a modern developer doing scripting and automation. Each binary seems to be huge and not practical unless you're writing it for a living.

For someone with a systems/C++ background who wants to write useful tools, which would you recommend diving into first? And regarding Common Lisp, what am I missing? What is the practical value of CL today outside of its excellent literature?

Thanks in advance for the advice!

Yesterday Prots new video was discussed and I had several questions. Today I used Claude to configure it to my liking and this is what we ended up with. Hopefully Prot will stop by and review this slop!

;; speedbar : quick access to files and tags in a frame
(use-package speedbar
    :ensure nil ; emacs built-in
    :preface
    (defun my/speedbar-toggle-dotfiles ()
        "Toggle showing dotfiles and unknown-type files in speedbar."
        (interactive)
        (setq speedbar-show-unknown-files (not speedbar-show-unknown-files))
        (setq speedbar-directory-unshown-regexp
            (if speedbar-show-unknown-files
                "^$"                    ; reveal dot-directories (never matches a name)
                "^\\(\\..*\\)\\'"))      ; default: hide dot-directories
        (speedbar-refresh))
    (defun my/speedbar-allow-other-window (&rest _)
        "Strip `no-other-window' so `C-x o' can move into the speedbar."
        (when (window-live-p speedbar--window)
            (set-window-parameter speedbar--window 'no-other-window nil)))
    (defvar my/speedbar-display-action
        '((display-buffer-reuse-window display-buffer-use-some-window)
             (inhibit-same-window . t))
        "Display action `my/speedbar-open-window' uses to open files.
Defaults to reusing an existing window so `RET' does not split.")
    (defun my/speedbar-open-window (fn &rest args)
        "Open speedbar files via `my/speedbar-display-action' instead of splitting.
`speedbar-find-file-in-frame' visits files with `switch-to-buffer' from the
dedicated sidebar, which otherwise pops up (splits) a new window."
        (let ((display-buffer-overriding-action my/speedbar-display-action))
            (apply fn args)))
    (defun my/speedbar-open-in-other-window ()
        "Visit the file on the current line in a separate window and select it."
        (interactive)
        (let ((my/speedbar-display-action
                  '((display-buffer-pop-up-window) (inhibit-same-window . t))))
            (speedbar-edit-line)))
    (defun my/speedbar-close ()
        "Close the speedbar window, tearing down its buffer and timer."
        (interactive)
        (speedbar -1))
    (defun my/speedbar-toggle ()
        "Toggle the speedbar window, selecting it when it opens."
        (interactive)
        (if (and (bound-and-true-p speedbar--window)
                (window-live-p speedbar--window))
            (my/speedbar-close)
            (speedbar-get-focus)))
    :bind
    (("C-x C-n" . my/speedbar-toggle)
        :map speedbar-mode-map
        ("TAB" . speedbar-toggle-line-expansion)
        ("."   . my/speedbar-toggle-dotfiles)
        ("o"   . my/speedbar-open-in-other-window)
        ("^"   . speedbar-up-directory)
        ("q"   . my/speedbar-close))
    :custom
    (speedbar-prefer-window t)
    (speedbar-use-images nil)
    (speedbar-hide-button-brackets-flag t)
    (speedbar-show-unknown-files t)   ; list all files, not just known extensions
    (speedbar-vc-do-check nil)        ; don't stat every file for VC state (slow over TRAMP)
    (speedbar-window-default-width 48)
    (speedbar-window-max-width 48)
    :config
    (advice-add 'speedbar-window-mode :after #'my/speedbar-allow-other-window)
    (advice-add 'speedbar-find-file-in-frame :around #'my/speedbar-open-window))

The Emacs31 Tree-sitter support is good, auto-install grammar and enable mode:

(treesit-auto-install-grammar 'ask)
(treesit-enabled-modes t)

Is there a way to auto-install all grammars I care about once? Like having a list of grammars auto-installed instead of installing them on demand?

Not sure if this is the right subreddit but I need to fix this (pic below) and I absolutely don't know how. I guess this will need some wall fix (since there's kind of a big hole there) and then some kind of anchors for the screws. Can anybody recommend me what products to buy (with the link if possible) so that I can put the rod back up? How would you approach this job? Doesn't show in the picture but this is the center piece of the rod, the other two anchors at the extremes seem fine.

https://preview.redd.it/50m9pv72u1ah1.jpg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e35c25805fb60e620970dbcf9c77e2e3cb61cebb

Parents of Reddit,

We have a 2 years old daughter (almost 3) and will be having our second baby in September. There's only mom and dad in this house and we don't have any family that can help when the second baby comes. Our current daughter stays with us all day (she does not attend, and we don't what her to attend daycare).

Mom is a stay-at-home mom and Dad works from home so we are both available at all times if needed. My questions:

1. Is it possible to make this work between the two of us or do we definitely need a nanny for at least the first 6 months.
2. In case we could make this work, how to deal with the delivery itself? Mom is having a C-Section and only Dad is able to stay with her, and the new baby at the hospital but we also need to take care of our current daughter.

Any tips you can share? We are actually looking for a nanny but honestly, we don't like what we've seen so far :(

TLDR: I spent 30 minutes in care.com and decided it was a scam! They charge like $50/month for what exactly? How can you trust their verification? What is their cut when you hire a nanny? etc... so, we are looking for alternatives.

Hello,

We have a 2 (almost 3) years old daughter and we are expecting our second baby in September so we will need some help. The wife is a stay-at-home mom and dad also works from home, so we will be always available but we'll be needing help mostly for our 2 years old while mom can take care of the new baby and dad can work. This will also entail light cooking and house cores.

Where can we start looking, as said in the TLDR, care.com seems like the worst business ever and we don't want to use it, at the same time, we don't know where to look other than facebook and the like.

We live in the Tampa Bay are in Florida, we are also interested in what are the rates these days if anybody knows and how to verify nannies (again, without going through care.com).

We bought a house last year and have ADT, we pay the subscription and honestly, besides the doorbell going down a few times everything else have been working fine (including the cameras). One thing about ADT is that they were able to use the wiring already existing in the house which was from Synergy, somehow they made that wiring work with they equipment.

Now, I'm moving off Google and I hate that ADT uses Google cameras, doorbell, etc. Is there a company out there similar that uses equipment that works for Apple ecosystem instead? Is it worth the switch? How do I know if they can reuse the wiring already in the house? Any recommendations?

We recently bought a 2026 CRV Sport Touring and one of the things we absolutely do not like (coming from a 2017 HRV) is that the right mirror (passenger mirror) does not have a camera. We are used to, whenever we are going to turn right, see that camera in the screen which is a lot better than looking at that tiny mirror in the far right.

Does anybody know if there's a passenger mirror we can buy with this feature? Having a camera that can be hooked up to the infotainment system and turns on whenever the right light is engaged?

Also, kind of surprised that the 2017 HRV had this feature while the top of the line 2026 CRV does not!

I've recently moved from claude-code-ide.el to agent-shell and the experience is great so far. Native comint buffer, ACP under the hood, no vterm flicker workarounds, and the session handling is clean.

The one thing I'm missing is the IDE awareness that claude-code-ide gave me out of the box: the agent could see eglot/flymake diagnostics, knew which buffer/region I had selected, could open ediff for diffs, navigate the project, etc. That was implemented as an in-Emacs MCP server exposed to the Claude Code CLI.

agent-shell does support MCP via agent-shell-mcp-servers. What I haven't been able to figure out is the right way to actually wire it up and which MCP server or Skills to use.

Is it possible to make agent-shell more aware about Emacs?

Mostly interested in how to design systems from first principles. For what I can find online the second edition have more emphasis on cloud and third party services as oppose to actually building systems end to end.

Looks like the second edition is less useful than the first? If you're building these "cloud services" (a.k.a the real distributed systems) should you go and read the first edition instead? Is this new second edition a "how to put together services into a coherent system" as opposed to "how to build the systems themselves from first principles"? I'm I missing something?

Is buying a Kitchen appliance package (refrigerator, range, dishwasher, and microwave) from Costco worth it or are there better places?

Would induction be a better buy than electric? How's reliability on induction? Does it lasts?

Seeing several brands that offer the entire kitchen package but not sure what to buy. Some friends have said that, whatever you do, never buy LG or Samsung for whatever reason!

There have been many people complaining that the PGTK build is bad. For some time now I've been on the Lucid build and it have been great, but decided to try again the PGTK build on Fedora KDE (Wayland) and... yeah, it is bad!

Initially I had crashes due to pixel-scroll-precision-mode, disabled that and it is not crashing anymore but still, it just feels slow and bloated! I haven't done any benchmarks or anything this is just a feeling and I would like to know other people opinion on it.

Another super annoying thing is that corfu popups sometimes just stay on screen until you trigger completion again!

Like, why not go to GTK4? Is anybody actually working on the PGTK build? Is it the recommended Wayland build today? What about when using Emacs daemon? Is Lucid just better if you only care about speed and resilience and not about bells and whistles?

Hello,

We recently got the 2026 CRV Sport Touring Hybrid and, while loving it, the MPG is not great. We don't drive much but with the little driving we've done we average 35 MPG which is not bad but not great either for a Hybrid.

I know there's a "B" driving mode that will effectively start re-charging the battery as soon as you step from the gas, my question is, since the car is stopping when driving in "B" mode, will the car also engage the break lights?

Other than "B" mode driving, what else can we do for better MPG? Econ doesn't seem to do much and it takes a hit on the AC which here in Florida is a requirement.

I'm using Emacs more and more for all my needs these days. One thing I need to do on a daily basis is connect to production servers and read logs, before I was using a terminal and grepping my way through those but now I just fire tramp and navigate (dired) to the given log I need to analyze which works great, except on big files!

Big meaning on the MBs, some times even more. Is the best approach for this to launch a vterm buffer through Tramp and just keep grepping my way on this files or is there a way to open big files in Emacs, maybe in batches, to analyze them? What are people that need to look at possible big log files on remote servers doing when using Emacs?