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One way that I leave a trace, which is a practice I've adopted from Simon Willison, is to record blogmarks for interesting and useful things I come across. Sometimes I just leave a…

I don't remember my first steps with subversion, mercurial, or git too well, but I don't think any of them were any more intuitive. My understanding is that jj is supposed to be ea…

The core advice of the article seems relevant and useful to both of those types of design.

Great article -- I'm going set aside some time with a notebook and pencil today and give this a try. I'm not sure I agree with the left brain/right brain, analytical and logical vs…

I outsource most of my esoteric `jq` syntax questions to ChatGPT. It does really well with them, usually turning up solutions that I'd struggle to munge together from several diffe…

Moveable looks like a super full-featured library for this kind of thing https://daybrush.com/moveable/

Maybe this: https://interactjs.io/

If you wanted to build a tool in the browser that allowed you to add, edit, connect, and move elements on an infinite grid like 1) https://natto.dev/example/2444ffca064a4890a7f05ca…

Hey, I'm Josh, the creator of this TIL repo. I've started it back in 2015 and still contribute to it a couple times a week. I reference TILs all the time to remember how to do some…

I tend to use one tmux session per project. I usually have 2-3 open for various client projects, one open for my TIL repository, and then I go from there. Within those sessions I t…

> I refer back to mine a LOT. The principal audience for them is future me - if anyone else finds them useful too that's just a bonus. 100% this. Several times a week I'll be tryin…

I wrote about my thinking and process behind this TIL repo here: https://dev.to/jbranchaud/how-i-built-a-learning-machine-45k...

Because all these posts are 200 words or less, they tend to be the kind of thing you can read in ~90 seconds. I like sharing these smaller learnings to twitter. For a venue like HN…

Postgres, though not new, has some incredibly powerful features these days that make it worth investing in. - JSONB column type, get NoSQL-esque document storage when you need it. …

I became aware of both of these articles through Tom Critchlow's writing on Digital Gardens. In this piece, he references the Garden and Stream concepts, while also adding in his o…

Analogous terminology for Stock and Flow are the Garden and Stream metaphors explored in Mike Caulfield's _The Garden and The Stream: A Technopastoral_. https://hapgood.us/2015/10/…