Writing Tools—JOURNAL

Obsidian, Bear, high-quality native apps vs. cross-platform Electron apps…

Trying BBEdit and Nova—JOURNAL

I am taking some time off, and this seems like a great time to mess with alternatives for my software stack.

Reflections on a Month with BBEdit and Nova—JOURNAL

What works, what doesn’t, and where did this experiment lead me in the end?

jj init—ESSAYS

What if we actually could replace Git? Jujutsu might give us a real shot.

New Tool: jj-gpc—JOURNAL

Making nicer branch names on the fly.

jj v0.24—NOTES

My daily-driver version control tool keeps getting better.

dprint for Nova—ELSEWHERE

I like nice, fast tools, so dprint and Nova make a great pair.

jj Tip: Rebase All Branches Matching a Revset—NOTES

Buttondown’s Alternatives Page—NOTES

Would that all software companies acted this way.

jj tip: ignore gh-pages by default—NOTES

I want my log to show me only useful information. Revsets let me do that!

Configure Zed to Use the Project’s rust-analyzer—NOTES

Because it is not nice for your editor tooling to stop working!

Shellcheck—NOTES

Your best friend if you have to write shell scripts.

Byword—NOTES

Still a really great Markdown editor after all these years.

Publishing to GitHub Pages via GitHub Actions—NOTES

Including two tips for bits that were very much not obvious about the project settings!

macOS tip: Spell Check with ⌘: and ⌘;—NOTES

The built-in functionality is great, actually.

Jujutsu Megamerges and jj absorb—JOURNAL

A really handy approach for splitting apart changes into multiple branches but working on their combination.

Deferred Conflict Resolution in Jujutsu—JOURNAL

Doesn’t that just make things worse somehow?

jj tip: Squash Changes From Across a Revset—NOTES

Another quick and easy way to split up changes “after the fact”.

Against Hard-Wrapping Text Documents—NOTES

Let your text editor do the work for you instead. Please.

A Little Soulver Coffee Calculator—NOTES

One of the many ways I use a great app in day-to-day life!

Improving jj-gcp with JSON Schema and schemars —NOTES

I don’t use this tool that often, but it’s good for it to work correctly when I do!

jj tip: describe multiple revisions at once—NOTES

Revsets and filesets remain mind-blowing.

mdBook tip: Redirects and the SUMMARY.md file—NOTES

The “helpful” creation of files named in SUMMARY.md might trip you up.

How I Use Freedom to Focus—NOTES

Some work is boring, and blocking distractions helps.

Today I Learned: Redirect Emails—NOTES

Available in Mac Mail.app and a few other clients.

fish tip: Launching $EDITOR to Edit the Current Terminal Command —NOTES

Something I end up doing surprisingnly often!

Downie + Overcast—NOTES

Turning video into podcasts.

The Git “Invalid username or password” error—NOTES

Spoilers: If you’re me, it’s probably your personal access token.

BBEdit Syntax for Jujutsu Commit Messages↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

Because I want JJ: lines to be treated like comments, dagnabbit!