Julia Evans

Reasons I still love the fish shell

7 days ago

I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post...

Migrating Mess With DNS to use PowerDNS

about 1 month ago

About 3 years ago, I announced Mess With DNS in this blog...

Go structs are copied on assignment (and other things about Go I'd missed)

about 1 month ago

I’ve been writing Go pretty casually for years – the backends for...

Entering text in the terminal is complicated

2 months ago

The other day I asked what folks on Mastodon find confusing about...

Reasons to use your shell's job control

3 months ago

Hello! Today someone on Mastodon asked about job control (fg, bg, Ctrl+z...

New zine: How Git Works!

4 months ago

Hello! I’ve been writing about git on here nonstop for months, and...

Notes on git's error messages

5 months ago

While writing about Git, I’ve noticed that a lot of folks struggle...

Making crochet cacti

6 months ago

I noticed some tech bloggers I follow have been making April Cools...

Some Git poll results

6 months ago

The "current branch" in git

6 months ago

Hello! I know I just wrote a blog post about HEAD in...

How HEAD works in git

7 months ago

Hello! The other day I ran a Mastodon poll asking people how...

Popular git config options

7 months ago

Hello! I always wish that command line tools came with data about...