🔎Julia Evans🔍
@b0rk
find me on Mastodon or Bluesky
people have been asking me to print posters for a long time and I'm excited to finally announce our first poster! you can get it for $20 US + shipping here: store.wizardzines.com/products/poste… the design is a collaboration between me, @omarieclaire, and Inner Loop Press

Corollary to this: you can have an outsized impact on the world by being one of the few people who DO publish fresh information online on your own web pages Blog like it's 2005!
A decade ago I felt like I could find anything on the Web. Now I feel like I can barely find anything. People just don't put information on web pages anymore.
I'll be livestreaming with @b0rk about Wizard Zines (and our zine-testing feedback system) at noon ET for the @oshwassociation telethon! youtube.com/watch?v=L6jIMz…
LIVE NOW! Our 24h livestream is officially on and we are ecstatic to spend the next day hearing from open source creators from around the world! Join here: youtube.com/watch?v=L6jIMz…
For a while, I've been working on a startup to design the next generation of day & night trains, optimizing space usage, comfort & economics all at once. The idea is to make night trains economically viable, a true alternative to flying, while being super comfortable.
website-making class where you have to recapitulate the history of the web -- week 1 you can only use the very first HTML tags from HTML 1.0 or whatever, then over time you get to use <img>, then CSS, JavaScript 1.0, XMLHttpRequest, etc
migrating Mess With DNS to use PowerDNS jvns.ca/blog/2024/08/1…
entering text in the terminal is complicated jvns.ca/blog/2024/07/0…
Refreshed an eye-opening @b0rk computer performance quiz that I remember doing almost 10 yrs ago now. thundergolfer.com/computers-are-…
git add -p (this is bonus comic #4 for "How Git Works" wizardzines.com/zines/git, covering some topics that I didn't have space for in the zine) permalink: wizardzines.com/comics/git-add…

git worktree (this is bonus comic #3 for "How Git Works" wizardzines.com/zines/git, covering some topics that I didn't talk about in the zine) permalink: wizardzines.com/comics/git-wor…

this is such a great resource. I’ve been using git for years and immediately learned multiple useful commands and git architecture concepts from the first few pages. thank you for this work!
git submodules (this is bonus comic #2 for "How Git Works" wizardzines.com/zines/git, covering some topics I didn't talk about in the zine!) permalink: wizardzines.com/comics/submodu…
