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Julia Evansby Julia Evans21 Jul 2026
Hello! I’m on a funny journey right now where I’m trying to learn how to make websites in a sort of 2010 style, where I have an SQL database and render some HTML on the backend.
Julia Evansby Julia Evans17 Jul 2026
Hello! I’ve been working on a Django site recently, and I decided to use SQLite as the database. When I was getting started with using SQLite as database for a website I read a bunch of blog posts...
Julia Evansby Julia Evans15 May 2026
Hello! 8 years ago, I wrote excitedly about discovering Tailwind. At that time I really had no idea how to structure my CSS code and given the choice between a pile of complete chaos and Tailwind...
Julia Evansby Julia Evans4 May 2026
A while back I decided to stop using Tailwind for new projects and to just write vanilla CSS instead. But one thing I missed about Tailwind was the colour palette (here as CSS).
Julia Evansby Julia Evans2 May 2026
Hello! One of my long term projects on here is figuring out how to write frontend Javascript without using Node or any other server JS runtime.
Julia Evansby Julia Evans10 Mar 2026
Hello! My big takeaway from last month’s musings about man pages was that examples in man pages are really great, so I worked on adding (or improving) examples to two of my favourite tools’ man...
Julia Evansby Julia Evans18 Feb 2026
Hello! After spending some time working on the Git man pages last year, I’ve been thinking a little more about what makes a good man page.
Julia Evansby Julia Evans27 Jan 2026
Hello! One of my favourite things is starting to learn an Old Boring Technology that I’ve never tried before but that has been around for 20+ years.
Julia Evansby Julia Evans8 Jan 2026
Hello! This past fall, I decided to take some time to work on Git’s documentation. I’ve been thinking about working on open source docs for a long time – usually if I think the documentation for...
Julia Evansby Julia Evans10 Oct 2025
Hello! Earlier this summer I was talking to a friend about how much I love using fish, and how I love that I don’t have to configure it.
Julia Evansby Julia Evans26 Jun 2025
Hello! After many months of writing deep dive blog posts about the terminal, on Tuesday I released a new zine called “The Secret Rules of the Terminal”!
Julia Evansby Julia Evans10 Jun 2025
I have never been a C programmer but every so often I need to compile a C/C++ program from source.
Julia Evansby Julia Evans7 Mar 2025
Hello! Today I want to talk about ANSI escape codes. For a long time I was vaguely aware of ANSI escape codes (“that’s how you make text red in the terminal and stuff”) but I had no real...
Julia Evansby Julia Evans13 Feb 2025
I was talking to a friend about how to add a directory to your PATH today. It’s something that feels “obvious” to me since I’ve been using the terminal for a long time, but when I searched for...
Julia Evansby Julia Evans5 Feb 2025
A few weeks ago I ran a terminal survey (you can read the results here) and at the end I asked: What’s the most frustrating thing about using the terminal for you?
Julia Evansby Julia Evans11 Jan 2025
Hello! Recently I ran a terminal survey and I asked people what frustrated them. One person commented: There are so many pieces to having a modern terminal experience.
Julia Evansby Julia Evans12 Dec 2024
Recently I’ve been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal is some combination of: - Your operating system’s job - Your shell’s job - Your terminal emulator’s job - The job of...
Julia Evansby Julia Evans29 Nov 2024
Here’s a niche terminal problem that has bothered me for years but that I never really understood until a few weeks ago.
Julia Evansby Julia Evans18 Nov 2024
I like writing Javascript without a build system and for the millionth time yesterday I ran into a problem where I needed to figure out how to import a Javascript library in my code without using a...
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