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My preferred workflow is to start with a new change, pick the changes I want, then use jj commit to describe the change and create a new empty one on top. Feels very similar to my …

jj edit is the biggest jj footgun I can think of, as other comments said just use jj new. But also if you do accidentally edit or change something jj undo works surprisingly well. …

I’m trying Gleam out right now, and having most recently been writing Go, I’m really loving: - No nil, instead Option and Result - ADTs - Pattern matching + destructuring - Immutab…

The “Signal protocol” only specifies how encryption is performed, but WhatsApp and Signal have very different protocols for actually transmitting the encrypted messages (I think Wh…

That's exactly it. I've been waiting for this since Dash first came out. At the time I was doing iOS dev in a lot of coffee shops and airports with spotty wifi on an 11" MacBook Ai…

It's not competing with CocoaPods. Alcatraz gives you a nice UI for installing Xcode plugins, color themes, etc. to customize your editor, while CocoaPods is management of librarie…

"iOS 7 Optimized" is Apple's way of saying "built with the iOS 7 SDK". Apps that are built for iOS 7 get the new shiny keyboard and some different behaviour when run on iOS 7, but …

Yeah, I found myself visiting the Kickstarter page today hoping there was some way I could fund the project months after it completed. Needless to say I couldn't. Seems like it wou…

This is amazing. It's exactly what I wanted to build when I was living in Japan, but I never got around to it. Congrats! I'll definitely be taking this with me the next time I go t…

Also bought a copy - good work!

Also bought a copy - good work!

I used to pay for prepaid phone credit from Fido's website using Interac online payment. One time Fido's server failed right after the Interac server accepted my payment. As far as…

Me too. I even tried climbing a tree.

After having spent a couple years doing embedded OS development in C, Objective C is beautiful. The verbosity makes it much easier to read than typical C code and the memory manage…

Every so often an article like this comes up, and I think to myself, "Maybe I should export my emails from Gmail and start using a personal domain for emails" and otherwise secure …

I'd love to port it, but I'm at the point where I can't justify spending any more time on it unless I get some sales to prove there is a market for it. That and I don't actually ha…

Hi all, I'm hoping to get some feedback on my second iOS app, Scrollendar. My first app, LessonLog, is pretty niche (teachers with iPhones), so Scrollendar is my first app that I f…

Agreed. This is amazing.