Joseph Lyons
mydeathmachine.bsky.social
Joseph Lyons
@mydeathmachine.bsky.social
Dev, audio engineer, metal fanatic, dad. I post about code, tech, and cool software I run into. Works at @zed.dev
I took some time to write a post about how we run our company inside of Zed, using Zed's collaboration service. Check it out!
November 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I wrote another blog post covering more Zed teammates and their journey from open-source contributors to hires at Zed Industries.
Check it out!
October 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Reposted by Joseph Lyons
With ~900 PR merges per month, even we find it hard to keep up with every new Zed feature landing. 😅

Hidden Gems aims to showcase some of the not-so-obvious features and workflows that we rely on daily. Give it a read, and if you have hidden gems you rely on, let us know!

zed.dev/blog/hidden-...
Hidden Gems: Team Edition Part 1 - Zed Blog
From the Zed Blog: Team-favorite workflows and hidden features of Zed.
zed.dev
October 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Reposted by Joseph Lyons
The world's fastest AI code editor is here
Zed is engineered from scratch in Rust like a video game. Not another fork, but a purpose-built editor designed for collaboration between humans and AI, delivering a lightning fast agentic editing experience.
zed.dev/blog/fastest...
May 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
We can't wait for you all to get your hands on the new assistant in Zed.
zed.dev Zed @zed.dev · Mar 31
... Sign up for the Agent Panel private beta! We'll start rolling out access to it this Wednesday.

It's a whole new, exciting phase for coding with AI in Zed!

zed.dev/ai/agent?b=50
Zed — Agentic Editing Beta
Participate in Zed's Agentic Editing closed beta.
zed.dev
March 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Zed 2024 recap is in!
zed.dev Zed @zed.dev · Dec 20
We've had a great year here at Zed Industries. We can't thank you all enough for your support, feedback, and contributions. We've got big plans to continue making Zed better in 2025, but let's take a few minutes to check what all has happened in 2024.

zed.dev/2024?b=2
2024 Recap - Zed - The editor for what's next
Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
zed.dev
December 20, 2024 at 6:01 PM
The Brainfuck extension (v0.0.4) now correctly installs again in Zed! Now you can get back to your #super #important work!
December 12, 2024 at 6:02 PM
A thread on the funnest "hack" I've done in some time.

@maxdeviant.com wrote a package in Gleam called bigben, which is a clock abstraction that you use in testing. You create real clocks for your production code, and in tests, you create fake clocks, which you derive real clocks from...
November 29, 2024 at 6:41 AM
I published a new @gleam.run package last night, persevero. It is a package that can retry fallible operations. You can easily construct different backoff strategies with the built-ins, or make your own using raw gleam yielders.

github.com/JosephTLyons...
November 27, 2024 at 7:01 PM
Reposted by Joseph Lyons
🚀 Introducing Zed v0.162!

The project panel can now show which files have warnings and errors.
November 20, 2024 at 7:01 PM
Reposted by Joseph Lyons
It's out!

I wrote about the bit-twiddling performance optimizations we do in our Rope.

You can find it here: zed.dev/blog/zed-dec...
November 18, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Reposted by Joseph Lyons
🚀 Introducing Zed v0.161!

🍂🎉 We squashed some bugs during last week's Quality Week, and half of these fixes have made their way into this week's stable release! 🐛🐞🐜 + 🔨💥 = 😵⚰️!

The markdown preview now has a button to copy code blocks!
November 13, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Reposted by Joseph Lyons
Join us for an AMA on Reddit this Thursday, Nov 14th, 9-11AM PT (12-2PM ET, 5-7PM UTC)! Ask our team anything about Zed.

www.reddit.com/r/ZedEditor/...
Reddit - Dive into anything
Zed: The social, performant, text editor. https://zed.dev
www.reddit.com
November 12, 2024 at 9:18 PM
Hey Gleamlins - I believe `lenient_parse` is now "feature complete" against the Python builtins it is aiming to emulate. Stability and matching what Python does are the main goals I have with this package, so please test it and report any bugs - I will fix them all!

hexdocs.pm/lenient_parse/
lenient_parse · v1.3.1SearchDocument
Lenient Python-like parsing functions for Gleam.
hexdocs.pm
November 12, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Reposted by Joseph Lyons
Just a short *checks notes* 4 months later, we’ve got our second ‘This week at Zed’ post out. Read on for updates about our git integration, white space settings, and more!
May 12, 2023 at 10:30 PM
Reposted by Joseph Lyons
We’ve been astonished by how quickly AI-powered developer tooling has progressed over the last 6 months. So we asked ourselves - how quickly could we bring these technologies into Zed? Today, we’re happy to announce that Zed now supports Copilot.

https://zed.dev/blog/copilot
April 20, 2023 at 6:45 PM
Reposted by Joseph Lyons
Hey 👋, we're Zed Industries. We built Atom and Tree Sitter, and now we're focused on building a highly performant multi-player text editor: Zed. If you're currently beta-testing Zed, we'd love to see screenshots of what you're building.
April 18, 2023 at 2:46 PM