added a cheat sheet to the official Git website (with a lot of help from other folks who work on the website) git-scm.com/cheat-sheet

TERM wizardzines.com/comics/term/ (from "The Secret Rules of the Terminal", out now! wizardzines.com/zines/termin...)

finally (after literally everyone else *) I got my print copy of The Secret Rules of the Terminal! wizardzines.com/zines/termin... (* or I hope after literally everyone else, please send us a support email if you didn't get your preordered copy yet!)

meet the TTY driver wizardzines.com/comics/meet-... (from "The Secret Rules of the Terminal", out now!)

I've been using White Squirrel for fulfillment for years for wizardzines.com and they're the best.

when you learned Git for the first time, what resources did you use? Did you like them? Mostly looking for answers from folks who learned Git in the last 5 years or so. Looking for resources to potentially add to the Git website

terminal colours wizardzines.com/comics/colou... (from "The Secret Rules of the Terminal", out now!)

job control wizardzines.com/comics/job-c... (from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, which is out now!)

I'm doing a side project where I'm working on improving a couple of git's man pages and could really use a few test readers. if you're interested, sign up here! I'd especially love test readers who use git on the command line regularly but are not 100% comfortable with it forms.gle/gFVUgj79ifHe...

I'm doing a side project where I'm working on improving a couple of git's man pages and could really use a few test readers. if you're interested, sign up here! I'd especially love test readers who use git on the command line regularly but are not 100% comfortable with it forms.gle/gFVUgj79ifHe...

editing text in a REPL wizardzines.com/comics/editi... (from "The Secret Rules of the Terminal", which is out now! wizardzines.com/zines/terminal)

how your terminal handles mouse clicks wizardzines.com/comics/the-m... (from "The Secret Rules of the Terminal", which is out now! wizardzines.com/zines/terminal)

just learned that CSS (as of "Baseline 2023") now supports nesting: caniuse.com/css-nesting I never managed to start using SCSS so I'm excited to be able to write things like this without a preprocessor: .cal-link { right: -18px; @media (max-width: 800px) { right: 0; } }

I received my physical copy of "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" by @b0rk.jvns.ca yesterday. I've got—I'm pretty sure—the full set of zines on my shelf. They're probably the reference material I grab most often. Great information well described in a convenient format.

Just bought (and read) this zine by @b0rk.jvns.ca and loved it! It’s bite sized but packs a punch, gives a very good mental model, explains some gotchas and most importantly encourages curiosity. wizardzines.com/zines/git/

just noticed Bite Size Command Line came out 7 years ago, I still sometimes forget the syntax for lsof and have to look it up at wizardzines.com/comics/lsof/ :) wizardzines.com/zines/bite-s...

all of the preorders of "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" have shipped! we promised they'd ship in August and I'm pleased that we managed to get them all shipped before August even arrived (please send us an email if you run into any problems) wizardzines.com/zines/termin...

got back from vacation to see that most of the print preorders for "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" have shipped! if you'd like a print copy you can get one here: wizardzines.com/zines/termin...

The three rectangles are congruent. What fraction of the design is shaded? #geometrypuzzle

we ran a Wizard Zines reader survey and it's interesting to see that 75% of people who buy the zines have been programming for 10+ years When I imagine a typical reader I always imagine someone who's been programming (in some capacity) for at least 5-10 years so it's nice to see that's accurate

we've already sold 1000 copies of The Secret Rules of the Terminal since it came out on Tuesday!! so to celebrate I'm giving away 1000 copies to anyone who can't afford to buy one. You can use code BUYONEGIVEONE to get a free PDF copy if $12 USD is a lot for you. wizardzines.com/zines/terminal

i've always been curious about how to write a Linux USB device driver and this blog post looks like a great intro: crescentro.se/posts/writin...

new zine: The Secret Rules of the Terminal jvns.ca/blog/2025/06...

I was a beta reviewer for this zine and it’s a banger. I’ve used the terminal for most of my life and I still learned a lot of secrets, from big concepts to little tricks.

in case you missed it, "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" came out yesterday!

delighted to announce that my new zine "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is out today!! You can get it for $12 USD here: wizardzines.com/zines/terminal

it's happening! "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is coming out tomorrow! here's the table of contents:

here's the final version of the "redirects cheat sheet" draft I posted a while back! ("The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is finished! 95 beta readers have read it! the copy editor is done! technical review is done! the illustrator has made the cover! It's going to be out on **Tuesday June 24**"!)

I just lost like 2 hours debugging a *wild* bug that only showed up when running my tests in a specific way. It was a combination of garbage collection and file descriptors being re-used, conspiring together to ruin my day.

I've still never gotten into `fzf` (and maybe I never will!) but I think it's really cool that you can use a fzf 1-liner to make things like this little UI for reviewing git commits jvns.ca/til/fzf-prev...

had fun doing this interview with the data sitters club

Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers) jvns.ca/blog/2025/06...

wizard zines is doing our first ~~ reader survey ~~! very interested to hear about how people who read wizard zines are using computers forms.gle/NZ3adV5ACtNF...

just got the cover art for The Secret Rules of the Terminal and it's looking so good! it features these very good shell earrings if you want to get an email when the zine comes out you can sign up here! wizardzines.com/zine-announc...

A new #Jepsen report! We worked with TigerBeetle to find seven crashes, elevated latencies during single-node failures, and requests which were retried forever in version 0.16.11. We found only two safety issues: missing results for queries with multiple predicates, and incorrect timestamps in a […]

was just reminded of how much I love the debugging manifesto poster that Inner Loop Press designed for Wizard Zines, you can get it for $20 US + shipping here: store.wizardzines.com/products/pos... I'm SO delighted with how it turned out (also for more of Inner Loop's work: www.innerloop.press)

Finally, here's a quick guide to assessing songbirds that look like they might need help - prepared by the fantastic @rosemarymosco.com.

I wrote a new thing about killing the metrics in your head, and how our inherent desire to know that we are being seen can be the thing that prevents us from caring as well and as much as we actually do. phirephoenix.com/blog/2025-05...

copy and paste in the terminal wizardzines.com/comics/copy-... (link to the pbcopy script: wzrd.page/pbcopy)

I think I have finally managed to articulate this very fundamental but slightly counterintuitive fact about how shell redirection works

stdin, stdout, and stderr wizardzines.com/comics/stdin...

If you've made free zine(s) related to social justice, tech, and/or culture/humanities; & need an online place (or backup place) for folks to DL it from, I might be able to help. More info on what I redistro/host (zines that teach a topic, argue something, how-tos; usually not pure perzines/art):

more terminal fun: canonical mode wizardzines.com/comics/canon...

terminal escape codes wizardzines.com/comics/escap...

types of terminal programs wizardzines.com/comics/types...

current status: putting a few weird terminal facts that I do not have any practical use for into the terminal zine (mostly I’m keeping it extremely practical but I think it's fun to have SOME weird stuff)

every core unix command I use

My talk with @inowland.bsky.social at kubecon is now live, if you want to think about tech stuff instead of doomscroll youtu.be/9lPp-6nJ8bI?...

Finally found a good example of SMT solving for the book! I've been blocked for a while, because while SMT has a lot of uses, all of the easy-to-show examples are toys. But I finally realized a practical example: given some outputs an RNG, reverse-engineering the parameters!

The Developer Success Lab is looking for engineers who work in infrastructure for a research study investigating the working experience of SREs, platform engineers, DevOps engineers, and software developers who maintain or develop infrastructure. forms.gle/YJ1uSmSJHC6Y...