Committing with the last command as the description 🔗
I realized recently that I really often end up committing a simple jj desc to reflect that I've just run a linter, updated a package… things like: bun [...]
✍ Evan Travers
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AI in the City of God 🔗
Theological evaluation begins and ends with the sovereignty of God. A technology is more than a tool, more than a technique, more than a telos. It is [...]
2025 🔗
This was a pretty wild year all 'round. Birth of a child, caught in a layoff, freelancing, working in a startup. Spiritual Life I've been keeping trac [...]
Finding Gene Cernan's Missing Moon Camera 🔗
When you’re going to the moon, you’re assigned a camera with a 60mm lens that gets strapped to your chest to document samples, experiments, and the lu [...]
Hollyland Lark M2S Lavalier 🔗
I've been using a small USB-C lavalier microphone to enhance my daily audio calls. I'm a fan. Since I deleted my microphone and light off my desk to j [...]
Updated my blogroll 🔗
My friend Scott was asking me for some healthy links to help replace doomscrolling, and I've been sending him a curated list of joyful RSS-friendly li [...]
Jujutsu's Whole Deal 🔗
Part of jj's whole deal is that it collapses many Git concepts (stashes, staging, fixups, in-progress rebases, conflicts) into a single unified model [...]
Code is only half the System 🔗
Chris's talk has been out there for quite a bit, but I'm clearing out my Instapaper and rediscovered it. He argues that our rigor and formal methods [...]
Be There When They Look Up 🔗
I love listening to people talk passionately about their life's work, and I had such a treat listening to Tyler Cowen's interview with David Robertson [...]
Sketchnotes: Sloss Tech 2025 🔗
I just finished up two days of Sloss Tech, mostly attending the Developer and Engineer track at the McWane Center. The BASE crew did a fantastic job f [...]
Achievement Unlocked 🔗
# This is an RSS-only post. It's a secret! Read more about RSS Club. While listening to Derek Sivers on Focused I was struck by two things: ho [...]
Hearing is Becoming 🔗
Whose voice speaks to you the most? It should be the people closest to us, the ones we say we love the most. But it's not. Historically the voices tha [...]
Looking For New Opportunities 🔗
I've been affected by a layoff at my previous employer, and I'm looking for new opportunities. I'm still processing the suddent deletion of half my br [...]
Wrestling with Jujutsu 🔗
I've been using git for about fifteen years. It's ingrained in my muscle memory. Why would I try anything else? Jujutsu is a new VCS built on-top of g [...]
Jumping to Projects in Tmux 🔗
It's nice to quickly set up your workspace. When coding, I am using sesh for this in tmux. Years ago, I worked in advertising. In those days, it was c [...]
Reorganizing My Nix Dotfiles 🔗
I rewrote my dotfiles config again! 🤷 I had been feeling some friction: my folder/file organization smelled bad. There was a bunch of ../.././config… [...]
The Lestrade Effect 🔗
Just as Sherlock concludes his insightful first analysis of the crime scene, the hapless Inspector Lestrade comes puffing up, right on schedule, but t [...]
Portable Standing Desk 🔗
I've wanted to use my keyboards outside for a little bit. The seed of the idea was struggling to work with my mobile office in a "workspace" at an air [...]
Formwork and Minimum Viable Artifact 🔗
The permanent foundations for a bridge are molded by impermanent forms. Plywood and other flexible formwork creates shapes in which the concrete harde [...]
Raycast Focus 🔗
Last month Jesse texted me: Jesse Have you tried Raycast Focus yet? Pretty neat. Me I have not yet Sheesh That's my headspace idea, only maybe better [...]
Boox Palma Review 🔗
I wanted a calm device to reduce my screentime. A "calm device" for me means minimal notifications, no hyper stimulant applications, and even no brows [...]
Automatic Webmentions 🔗
# This is an RSS-only post. It's a secret! Read more about RSS Club. Thanks to Matt's post, I think I've finally got webmentions automated, wh [...]
Beware and Be Encouraged 🔗
While researching a trip, I came across a devious strategy: Thieves sometimes put up a sign in english that reads "Beware of Pickpockets," then they w [...]
Setting Up Obsidian Tasks as a Things.app User 🔗
For the past month, and through the last quarterly review and planning of 2025, I've been using Obsidian Tasks instead of my trusty Things.app, and I [...]
Aposiopesis Aggression 🔗
# This is an RSS-only post. It's a secret! Read more about RSS Club. Recently someone at work said "people around here use the ellipsis a lot. [...]