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Julia Evans

This blog is about being delighted about programming….

  • By Julia Evans
  • Based in Canada
  • Roughly one post per month
  • First post on

Posts per month

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Posts per month
Month starting Posts
Feb 2022 4
Mar 2022 4
Apr 2022 2
May 2022 2
Jun 2022 1
Jul 2022 3
Aug 2022 1
Sep 2022 2
Oct 2022 0
Nov 2022 1
Dec 2022 4
Jan 2023 3
Feb 2023 4
Mar 2023 3
Apr 2023 2
May 2023 3
Jun 2023 2
Jul 2023 3
Aug 2023 4
Sep 2023 1
Oct 2023 2
Nov 2023 5
Dec 2023 2
Jan 2024 3
Feb 2024 2
Mar 2024 3
Apr 2024 2
May 2024 0
Jun 2024 1
Jul 2024 2

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

Entering text in the terminal is complicated
The other day I asked what folks on Mastodon find confusing about working in the terminal, and one thing that stood out to me was “editing a command you already typed in”. This really resonated …
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Reasons to use your shell's job control
Hello! Today someone on Mastodon asked about job control (fg, bg, Ctrl+z, wait, etc). It made me think about how I don’t use my shell’s job control interactively very often: usually I prefer to just …
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New zine: How Git Works!
Hello! I’ve been writing about git on here nonstop for months, and the git zine is FINALLY done! It came out on Friday! You can get it for $12 here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/git, or get an 14-pack …
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