Totally agree, Vis really hits an spot between modern feel without losing what made vi great. The structural regex is a game-changer.

have you tried sam? or plan 9 in general? I'd recommend both if you haven't (though, plan 9 defaults to acme iirc)

I miss on the list Counterpoint GUI for Amstrad PCs with MS-DOS

https://www.seasip.info/AmstradXT/Counterpoint/index.html

Any provider for critical domain vault?

There are modified BIOS firmware that allow any WiFi card. Good luck

I remember seeing something in that direction when I was looking but never did look deeper into it.

The post made me actually take out the laptop again and maybe use it as a server or something like that in the future and for that I'd use ethernet anyway.

Search on bios-mods for a modified whitelist BIOS firmware -> https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Forum-WiFi-WWAN-Whitelist-Re...

Vis editor [0] also has multicursor and powerful sam's structural regular expression

[0]: https://github.com/martanne/vis

Yes, "everything is a file" but the mouse on Rio is written in stone.

Aside of that, plan9 wins on the theoretical side, it was a research OS, but in the practical one... it's opinionated.

Linux Firewalls by Steve Suehring covers nftables. It’s a good book to know the basics.

Give a try to Meshcore, their design has proven to be reliable in realworld use.

Chinese AI is doing large amounts of request in the past weeks.

how is this showing up for you? site you host or bigger scale? I'm not surprised but rather curious.

They had pretty neat infra, maybe it still runs in the same clever way. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10369/which-tools-a...

Recently they've chucked out their own servers:

https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/12/24/the-great-unracking-sa...

Notably the default Redis client for most .NET developers is still StackExchange.Redis.