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programming and exclamation marks blog: jvns.ca zines: wizardzines.com
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Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath
2 days ago
A great overview of the evolution of
#container
technology via
#Docker
. It also provides a quick peek into the various technology bits that enable containers work. If you want to learn more about how containers work, then consider starting with
wizardzines.com/zines/contai...
by
@b0rk.jvns.ca
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Lu wilson
11 days ago
free open source software needs fewer engineers and more designers and product people
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i love how when I decided that I wanted to Write Some Real Open Source Code in 2018 I thought "I need a new github avatar to communicate that i am a serious person" and made this i 100% stand by it great job past self
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)
5 days ago
psa: you don't have to use archive dot today or archive dot ph to access SMH or The Age without the paywall; you can disable Javascript on them and the articles load just fine.
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a few thoughts about clarifying man pages
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9 days ago
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It's been nice to see people using
library.wizardzines.com
to view their zine collections (over a thousand people have used it so far!) I think we're going to add a feature to merge accounts if you used more than one email to buy zines
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JauntyWunderKind
13 days ago
This is one of my favorite things, data model explainers! Makes me think of
#rfc9110
, which turned my head super fast. Instead of a technical document on http the protocol, a rfc on what the model of http is.
datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc...
Understanding not what is but what it means enables!
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now that Git 2.53 is out, the Git data model
@omarieclaire.bsky.social
and I wrote is on the official Git website!
git-scm.com/docs/gitdata...
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just noticed that more than 10,000 people are subscribed to Saturday Comics, where you get an email every week with a comic from the archives! I think we've been sending out weekly comics for almost 7 years?!?
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17 days ago
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Over the years I've been hearing from folks that it's hard to remember which zines you've bought So we built a new library website where you can see & download all your zines!
library.wizardzines.com
24 days ago
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some notes on starting to use Django
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29 days ago
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really cool to see Blacksky moving further towards having fully separate infrastructure
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A data model for Git (and other docs updates)
jvns.ca/blog/2026/01...
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A data model for Git (and other docs updates)
A data model for Git (and other docs updates)
https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/01/08/a-data-model-for-git/
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JW Caterine
about 2 months ago
Just got in the mail! Going to keep on my desk. Thank you
@b0rk.jvns.ca
for making cool shit!
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Cat Hicks
3 months ago
I have a December gift for you all 🎁 I am finally able to open up a general call for ADVANCE READERS for my book: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS (coming 2026). I cannot tell you how much it means to me to share this! Indicate your interest here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Request to be an advance reader of The Psychology of Software Teams by Cat Hicks
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this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it.
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Matt Zaske
3 months ago
Here it is folks! If you've been to one of my conference sessions on Git and other things, these are the zines I mention you should buy! On sale -- today only!
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it's happening!!! from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if it’s Friday anywhere, the sale’s still on!), all my pdf zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off!
wizardzines.com
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tomorrow November 28 we're doing a Big Zine Sale! Here's a thread about every zine that will be on sale (it's all of them) (feel free to mute this thread :))
wizardzines.com
(1/16)
3 months ago
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Jamie
3 months ago
Hey everyone! These tech zines are awesome and there's a great sale coming up! I really like "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" but the bite size series and the DNS zine are also really great. I mean they're all great honestly. You should order some as gifts or for yourself.
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this is happening on Friday!
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3 months ago
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Wizard Zines is doing another Big Zine Sale again this year on Friday, November 28th! One day only. here’s a google calendar link for the duration of the sale if you want a reminder:
wzrd.page/cal
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Catriona Agg
3 months ago
❤️ Love this ❤️
@mathforge.org
has done what I’ve never been organised enough to do myself, and catalogued every
#geometrypuzzle
I’ve ever posted on social media. It looks amazing!
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we just finished a huge project: all of the paid zines at
wizardzines.com
now have a transcript for screen reader users!!! If you bought a previous version of the zines and don't have the transcript, you can email us at
[email protected]
to get it. More here:
wizardzines.com/accessibility/
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Daniel Pipkin 🦥
4 months ago
I'm trying to get more comfortable with C.
@b0rk.jvns.ca
's Memory Spy tool has really strengthened my intuition for the bits behind the variables.
memory-spy.wizardzines.com
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just added the MEGA TERMINAL CHEAT SHEET from "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" to our list of posters at
wizardzines.com#posters
4 months ago
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TERM
wizardzines.com/comics/term/
(from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, out now!
wizardzines.com/zines/terminal
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5 months ago
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notes on switching to Helix from vim
jvns.ca/blog/2025/10...
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watching this was such a fun way to learn a little about Ethernet
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redirects
wizardzines.com/comics/termi...
(from "The Secret Rules of the Terminal", out now!
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meet the terminal emulator
wizardzines.com/comics/meet-...
(from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, out now! (
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stty
wizardzines.com/comics/stty/
(from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, out now!
wizardzines.com/zines/termin...
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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
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Git Cheat Sheet
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6 months ago
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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!)
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meet the TTY driver
wizardzines.com/comics/meet-...
(from "The Secret Rules of the Terminal", out now!)
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I've been using White Squirrel for fulfillment for years for
wizardzines.com
and they're the best.
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6 months ago
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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
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terminal colours
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(from "The Secret Rules of the Terminal", out now!)
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job control
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(from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, which is out now!)
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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...
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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...
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editing text in a REPL
wizardzines.com/comics/editi...
(from "The Secret Rules of the Terminal", which is out now!
wizardzines.com/zines/terminal
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6 months ago
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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
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7 months ago
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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; } }
7 months ago
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Christopher Yudichak
7 months ago
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.
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Fatih Altinok
7 months ago
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/
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How Git Works
https://wizardzines.com/zines/git/
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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/
:)
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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...
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The Secret Rules of the Terminal
https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal/
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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...
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The Secret Rules of the Terminal
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