Changelog 0007: Branches. So you can imbue any git repo that contains `.md` files with Google-Docs-like collaboration features, instantly, by adding a `moment.yml` file to it. But git repos have branches. So this week we decided to support them too. 🧵

I live in a very special place. Got to squeeze in a tour after all that Thanksgiving turkey.

I just convinced my whole team to use jujitsu. With some community tools, we no longer stomp over changes when working on the same feature branch. No more confusing rebasing either!

I came back from Sync Conf and shocked how many people are building text editors and the struggles they had with yjs. So rather than wait for my cofounder to finish his blog, I’ll just give a quick rundown on what we do for live collab editing.

I don’t know who else needs to know this. But if you tend to sleep with headphones or earbuds, this has been a dramatic improvement to my sleeping. www.amazon.com/soundcore-Ca...

The subtle beauty of Durable Objects, and what could be better about them. Featuring PartyKit and @cloudflare.social www.moment.dev/blog/durable...

Thanks @skamille.themanagerswrath.com for sharing this gem. I had no idea NFS is 40 years old!!! nfs40.online Pretty impressive as it is being used extensively today.

I’m so in love Taylor’s new album. Melodic hooks, witty lyrics, and sexually mature. So far, Elizabeth Taylor and Actually Romantic is what I’m jamming to right now.

If anyone is setting up a Stripe Payment system for the first time, I found this gem of a doc to be super helpful. github.com/t3dotgg/stri... I can also read his pain through this doc.

Ok after watching youtu.be/CxVXvFOPIyQ?... I can see how people can distrust science, which is really sad. It is important that scientists and regulators are buffered from for-profit companies so that our society is protected from incentives that is just looking out for profits.

Ngl, this is a flex

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

I have high hopes for Taylor Swift’s new album. I was not a fan of Tortured Poet’s Department, mostly because the sound felt so similar. But i am excited she is working with different producers, especially world class Swedish producer Max Martin and Shellback.

Josh Johnson has the best explainer on the kiss cam, Coldplay concert. youtu.be/copSd6p7F4A?...

I’m excited that I’m speaking at Git Merge! git-merge.com If you want to learn about my horror stories of learning zig / rust and libgit2, and how the git remote protocol works, come on down. I’m pretty satisfied with my photo choice.

This website is beautiful and the API looks impressive! Excited to try it out!

At AWS, I led the team that built EC2's Nitro virtualization stack— C code deployed to 500K servers. Biggest lesson? Pre-production testing has limits. You must embrace safe production testing. My new blog explains how Nitro did it, and how Junction brings this to any Kubernetes team.

Joe Fasano poem--For a Student Who Used AI to Write A Paper

This has to be the best blog post I have read on monorepos. This highly resonates from my experience as well. Must read if you are considering migrating to one. blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monore...

How do I unsubscribe and go to a different multiverse? I don’t want to live in that one.

This was such a beautiful and tragic read. I loved the juxtaposition of city planning. Wondering what SF could have been if we just said yes instead of no. Similarly, I read Erza Klein’s Abundance, which I also enjoyed

This is so real lmaoooo "She booked a solo trip to Iceland while you were composing your <<good morning>> text" 😂😂

I have been diving deep into Ryan Coogler and he is becoming one of my favorite directors. Best thing I learned is that the vampires are inspired by death in Puss and Boots 2!!! That movie is also a sleeper hit!!

Every time I work in Docker, I feel like I had amnesia and forgot the magic incantation to make Docker do what I want. Of course in reality, this is not true and I get better/faster every time I do something in it, and always learn (or relearn) something. But doesn’t feel that way when I’m in it.

This is an insane record for a movie director. He should be able to make whatever movie he wants given the ROI. Sinners is so fantastical. Go see it in IMAX if you can!

I just need everyone to watch this and understand I have been laughing about it for 24 hours

A great read. Software engineering is changing with AI and it’s not a bad idea to strategize what you want as this happens. annievella.com/posts/the-so...

I was so impressed by providing chatgpt a photo and creating a studio ghibli style rendering.

I feel attacked youtube.com/shorts/JlJA8...

Free Mahmoud Khalil

It’s international women’s day! Rather than posting some tech content, I decided to promote myself in action sports, as I love walking up the hill and sliding down! 📸 by Scott Rinckenberger and Matt Patterson!

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

The SNL music documentary, Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music, is super well done. Especially the first intro segment. Co-directed by Questlove!!! You can see his love for music in this documentary!!

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We have been working on to launch our new iteration of our product. Local-first, markdown-based, versioned by git. Onboarding is still rough. We will be coming out with better templates and examples soon. Please check it out and give us your thoughts!

every year, I keep entering the lottery and never getting it. Don't know why I keep doing it though.

At Moment, we heavily use prosemirror and react for our text editor. They are great libraries and the journey to get them working well has been hard. This post does a great job explaining why it’s hard and the solution he built, which is what we do today! smoores.dev/post/why_i_r...

I’m mad that there are no clips of the performances of the Grammys on YouTube. I want to see dochiee’s performance so bad!!

This past week, I’ve been writing a lot of Rust with the libgit2 FFI bindings. I am surprised how much I’ve been enjoying it vs Zig/C.

I found that Peter Attia has the perfect voice for helping me fall asleep. It’s just enough jargon to keep me interested but not too interesting to keep me awake and focused.

Ok I was on Instagram stories and someone posted a screenshot of a Reddit post, which my old eyes cannot read . Found the Reddit post. It’s probably fake, but I also want to believe some SOC II audit report has “no cap frfr” www.reddit.com/r/csMajors/s...

In all seriousness, this is kind of sad. I think memory safe languages is better at creating less buggy software and software that requires less patching

I really loved Dave Patterson’s article on his reflections on his 50 year career!! cacm.acm.org/opinion/life...

King County SAR decided to fund a new helicopter in their fleet and retire a 10 year old helicopter back in October. It’s already being put to good use and saving lives. I did not know these helicopters can fly at night. youtu.be/zsBIl5HNBrk?...

Ok, digging into libgit2. Did I think I would be here? No… I was today years old when I discovered “git pull” is really “git fetch <your remote name>” and “git merge” all the matching refs Also “git merge” is very hard and most other libraries choose to exec out to git / libgit2 🙃

I don’t know if I’m just hanging around with too many CS language ppl, but this is the second time I’ve heard the idea of using react jsx as a declarative language to describe resources other than UI layout. Sounds crazy but when I read the prototype code, it kind of slaps?

My year-end report of Strava! Maybe this year, I can cross the 200k mark of vert!

Man, SNL weekend update was on fire this week. That “sea man” joke got me gasping youtu.be/DqH_S0M7DBc?...

And I guess TikTok is back? 🍿🍿🍿 That was fast.

Ahhhh finally!!!!!