Ben Gesoff

jj run allows you to run a command over a set of changes, each with their own private working copy; the commands may update the working copy and changes/conflicts are propagated accordingly, e.g., jj run -- cargo check --all-features or jj run --cargo fix behaves as one might expect

Turns out you can just plug your iPhone into a USB-C monitor with keyboard attached and get a mini desktop PC—not sure why I didn’t do this sooner

Ooo nice jj + fzf shortcut oppi.li/posts/jjj/

Great article. I also like to push my megamerge so it gets built in CI in the background

Man @exe.dev is so cool. Amazing to be able to paste in a link to a public repo from your phone and and start chatting about it with an agent, without having had to have opened a laptop and cloned it first

I've written a blog post about some of the less obvious things I've learned about Postgres indexes. jon.chrt.dev/2026/04/15/t...

Some handy aliases for managing @jj-vcs.dev workspaces by @pksunkara.com pksunkara.com/tech-notes/j...

I think the Huel acquisition may be Aylesbury’s first unicorn? (I went to school there so feel proud for some reason, despite having nothing to do with them)

With juttu.app you can add a comment section to any blog article that adopts standard.site adding two lines of HTML, how cool is that? :)

This is an absolutely beautiful, glorious description of the products in our lives. The things that once were simple tools that met needs, now demand relationships, have opinions, and occupy cycles of our lives. Do yourself a favor, scroll down and read this page www.terrygodier.com/the-last-qui...

“I’ve always liked small beautiful things, that’s my own bias. But, you can assemble big beautiful things from small beautiful things.” Excellent post.

exe.dev's CLI and API are one and the same, as it should be. blog.exe.dev/apis-for-the...

On a non-milk-related note, @idursun.com’s jjui tool for @jj-vcs.dev is really good idursun.github.io/jjui/

Been stuck on Windows at work for 3 months and have finally gone back to MacOS. Using WSL is better than I thought but it’s still nothing on the Mac. So much more stable in general, the terminal handles mouse control characters without randomly printing them to the screen, and ⌘ for clipboard is 🤌🏼

After reading this I gave exe.dev a shot and the combination of cheap VMs, the HTTPS proxy with passkey auth and link sharing, and the built-in LLM agent is... incredible. Like, I know how to use each of these things individually, but combining them feels like when I first learned to script things.

I’ve heard this argument before I don’t quite understand it—why anyone would build new wind generation if they were only going to get paid the amount it costs them to run, i.e. close to zero. I think they’d just all end up bidding £0.10 less than the gas producers and we’d be back to square one.

Finally tried uv. It’s not just fast: it’s laughably fast. Like, “this is what should run every kind of package management on a whole computer” kind of fast.

#AnimalDatabaseAlliance, assemble! We're excited to announce the TigerBeetle connector for @redpandadata Real-time transaction streaming, now correct and fast, by default.

Kubernetes v1.34: Use An Init Container To Define App Environment Variables-

Excited to finish watching this talk about empowering people to learn and use @rust-lang.org when I’m back from holiday. Having watched the intro, it looks like there are bunch of interesting new tools to make the language more approachable. youtu.be/R0dP-QR5wQo?...

My first time using Gemini chat today — turns out it’s the only one that supports OCRing large PDFs that have been scanned in. Claude only seems to work with PDFs containing actual text instead of just images of text. Lifesaver for asking questions on old legal documents such as title deeds!

Today, we're announcing our first hosted infrastructure product: pyx, a Python-native package registry. We think of pyx as an optimized backend for uv: it’s a package registry, but it also solves problems that go beyond the scope of a traditional "package registry".

New Redis release, but with a twist. It includes our first Rust patches to Redis Query Engine! In particular, it ships the new TrieMap implementation I wrote with Henk Oordt, as part of @mainmatter.com's ongoing collaboration with Redis.

Really enjoyed this talk by @hillelwayne.com. In particular, the section with tips on how to think about abstracting a system so it can be formally specified, even just debugged youtu.be/d9cM8f_qSLQ?...

"When not to use Tokio"--Loving this section in the docs of Tokio (tokio.rs/tokio/tutorial), a runtime for building async applications in Rust. There are no silver bullets, and it's vital to understand when a given library or tool adds value, and when it does not.

Interesting to see NYSE going with RedPanda for a Kafka-compatible streaming platform for real-time market data www.redpanda.com/case-study/n...

Disposable code is here to stay, but durable code is what runs the world, and it isn't going anywhere either. www.honeycomb.io/blog/disposa... (Engineers who are freaking out about their jobs going away can stop now. 💜)

Thoroughly enjoying the IronBeetle series on YouTube about how @tigerbeetle.com works. There are some very interesting ideas behind it and they are well explained

If you're using Claude Code, the latest GB release has a very cool hooks integration where it puts the output of each session you run into a new parallel Git branch. Check it out 👇 blog.gitbutler.com/parallel-cla...

The uv build backend is now stable, and considered ready for production use. An alternative to setuptools, hatchling, etc. for pure Python projects, with a focus on good defaults, user-friendly error messages, and performance. When used with uv, it's 10-35x faster.

The @zed.dev agent mode is pretty cool! I’ve only used the Aider one before, but the Zed one is a lot slicker. Still requires care when using, but with a bit of practice I can see it being a real productivity boost.