Madeleine Mortensen
Maybe it's just me, but when I first pick up a new tool and I don't yet have any muscle memory, I don't have a broad view of what commands are available, and I'm missing all the shortcuts and aliases that I can use with whatever it's replacing, I can feel a little "trapped by the tool". I'm much slower at everything I try to do, I'm not quite sure what side effects some of the commands I run will…
Jujutsu ( jj ) is a version control system with a significantly simplified mental model and command-line interface compared to Git, without sacrificing expressibility or power (in fact, you could argue Jujutsu is more powerful). Stacked-diff workflows, seamless rebases, and ephemeral revisions are all natural with jj , and it uses Git as a backend, which means you can begin using it…
These days, I'm back to developing almost entirely on macOS. When I was working on the implementation of this site, it was starting to get quite grating that every time I ran cargo run , macOS would pop up a window that says "Allow Incoming Connections?". I had to click "Allow" every single time I changed the code and re-ran it. In general, I know why this happens: the firewall is enabled, and…