jbranchaud

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by jbranchaud 18d ago
The best upgrade to these kinds of git branch scripts is piping them to fzf. I’ve been using this fbr one from the fzf repo. https://github.com/jbranchaud/dotfiles/blob/main/zshrc.local...
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by jbranchaud 3mo ago
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 pull quote, but usually I try to add my own thoughts
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by jbranchaud 10mo ago
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 easier to use for day-to-day version control. I&#x27
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From Zero to GitHub: Starting a New Jj (Jujutsu) Repo(visualmode.dev)
2 points by jbranchaud 10mo ago|3 comments
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A Decade of TILs(visualmode.dev)
9 points by jbranchaud 2y ago|1 comments
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by jbranchaud 2y ago
The core advice of the article seems relevant and useful to both of those types of design.
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by jbranchaud 2y ago
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 creative and emotional dichotomy. I think go
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Pay for Good Tools(buttondown.com)
5 points by jbranchaud 2y ago|1 comments
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by jbranchaud 3y ago
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 different google search results. I wonder how ChatGPT would
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by jbranchaud 3y ago
Moveable looks like a super full-featured library for this kind of thing https://daybrush.com/moveable/
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by jbranchaud 3y ago
Maybe this: https://interactjs.io/
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Ask HN: How to build infinite grid in the browser?
1 points by jbranchaud 3y ago|3 comments
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by jbranchaud 3y ago
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 something. It has been a great practice and I'd r
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by jbranchaud 4y ago
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 tend to have separate windows and panes as a way of organizin
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“Bit Bucket” and other names for /dev/null(putorius.net)
6 points by jbranchaud 6y ago|1 comments
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by jbranchaud 6y ago
> 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 trying to do something, remember I've written a
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by jbranchaud 6y ago
I wrote about my thinking and process behind this TIL repo here: https://dev.to/jbranchaud/how-i-built-a-learning-machine-45k...
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by jbranchaud 6y ago
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 though, I agree they don't meet quite the effort thres
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One Thousand TILs and Counting(github.com)
10 points by jbranchaud 6y ago|6 comments
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Show HN: Used SQL to solve Advent of Code puzzle(youtube.com)
2 points by jbranchaud 6y ago|0 comments
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by jbranchaud 6y ago
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. - Generated columns, computed from other columns without the
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Add Tailwind to a Next.js App(youtube.com)
1 points by jbranchaud 6y ago|0 comments
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by jbranchaud 6y ago
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 own, Campfires. https://tomcritchlow.com&#x2F
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by jbranchaud 6y ago
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/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-st
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Interactively Browse Package Versions with FZF(youtube.com)
3 points by jbranchaud 6y ago|0 comments
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by jbranchaud 6y ago
I usually remember when I've written on something even if I've forgotten the details. I tend to be able to do a Cmd-f search of the README for a keyword to turn up what I'm looking for. All that said, I've been contempla
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by jbranchaud 6y ago
No better time than today to start building your own learning machine https://dev.to/jbranchaud/how-i-built-a-learning-machine-45k...
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by jbranchaud 6y ago
Vim is by far my most TIL-ed topic. I recently started gathering a lot of that learning into a screencast series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL46-cKSxMYYCMpzXo6p0C...
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I've been writing TILs for 5 years(github.com)
558 points by jbranchaud 6y ago|135 comments
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Vim Tips: Using the Equal Sign Character(youtube.com)
2 points by jbranchaud 6y ago|0 comments

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