justinmayer

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Comment · 6 months ago

Many folks aren’t aware that there is also an open-source, cross-platform desktop GUI application for Jujutsu called GG: https://github.com/gulbanana/gg

I mention it because while the jj command line interface is excellent, there are certain tasks that I find easier to perform with a graphical user interface. For example, I often want to quickly tap on various revisions and see their diffs. GG makes that kind of repository browsing — and certain squash operations — much more efficient for me.

If you’re interested in more information about GG, my co-host and I talked about it in a recent episode of the Abstractions podcast at about the 8:17 mark: https://shows.arrowloop.com/@abstractions/episodes/052-they-...

Comment · 11 months ago

Interesting to see two similar projects with the same "cmux" name, at least until this one was renamed two weeks ago to "mux". Naming is hard.

I have not yet tried either one, but here is the other project for those who want to compare and contrast them:

https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux

Project Amplify: Powered footwear for running and walking about.nike.com

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Comment · 1 year ago

In the first segment of the very first episode of the Abstractions podcast, we talked about Google killing its goo.gl URL obfuscation service and why it is such a craven abdication of responsibility. Have a listen, if you’re curious:

Overcast link to relevant chapter: https://overcast.fm/+BOOFexNLJ8/02:33

Original episode link: https://shows.arrowloop.com/@abstractions/episodes/001-the-r...

Comment · 1 year ago

Benefiting users is definitely not Ollama’s first priority, as seen when this pull request was summarily closed: https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/pull/395

Those README changes only served to provide greater transparency to would-be users.

Ulterior motives, indeed.

Comment · 1 year ago

These comments would carry more merit if they weren’t coming from the very person who closed this pull request: https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/pull/395

Those rejected README changes only served to provide greater transparency to would-be users, and here we are a year and a half later with woefully inadequate movement on that front.

I am very glad folks are working on alternatives.

Comment · 2 years ago

Integrating ripgrep-all with fzf makes for a powerful combination when you want to recursively search the contents of a given directory.

I have been using a shell function to do this, and it works wonderfully well: https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/wiki/fzf-Integration

The built-in rga-fzf command appeared in v0.10 and ostensibly obviates the need for the above shell function, but the built-in command produces errors for me on MacOS: https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/issues/240

Comment · 2 years ago

Having owned countless Mac notebooks over the last 30 years — starting from the PowerBook 140 up through the M1 MacBook Pro — I can tell you with confidence that Apple has made the same sleep change shenanigans mentioned in OP’s article.

It used to be that you could count on a sleeping Mac to stay asleep until you explicitly woke it up by opening the lid, pressing a key on the keyboard, or pressing the trackpad (or separate trackpad buttons — yes, those used to exist). Perhaps more importantly, you could count on the sleep function to have barely any effect on the Mac battery.

I don’t recall when, but at some point over the aforementioned three decades, Apple started changing the terms of this sleep contract.

It seems Apple decided that some functions should still be available when the Mac is “sleeping”, with no way to restore the previous behavior. As a result, random wake-ups are the new normal, replete with unexpected battery drainage.

I have seen modern MacBooks go to “sleep” with an 80% charge at night, only to be rendered dead with a 0% battery level by morning. Does something this extreme happen often? No. But it never happened before. And moderate battery loss while sleeping? That happens very often on today’s MacBooks.

Your mileage may very. And Apple probably continues to implement better computer sleep behavior than competing vendors. But I would argue that people who think MacBook sleep behavior is excellent… have never experienced how it behaved in the past. That behavior was superb.

But sadly, I imagine most people have never experienced that excellence.

Comment · 2 years ago

As the maintainer of the Python-based Pelican static site generator for over a decade, I can say with confidence that my experience has been nothing like what is described in this article.

Most of Pelican’s code was written by other people, and yet I have spent almost zero time debugging that code, much less my own. After taking advantage of Pelican’s rich plugin ecosystem and adding a handful of useful plugins, I continue to be amazed by how much time this publishing system saves me, and how little time I must spend to keep everything running smoothly.

What it would take to accomplish this by writing HTML by hand instead… I simply can’t fathom it. But once again, that’s just one person’s experience, and YMMV.