Hacker News: jbranchaud

New comment by jbranchaud in "Sort branches by last commit date"

jbranchaud — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:49:28 +0000

The best upgrade to these kinds of git branch scripts is piping them to fzf. I’ve been using this fbr one from the fzf repo. https://github.com/jbranchaud/dotfiles/blob/main/zshrc.local...

New comment by jbranchaud in "Leave a Trace"

jbranchaud — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:54:15 +0000

One way that I leave a trace, which is a practice I've adopted from Simon Willison, is to record blogmarks for interesting and useful things I come across. Sometimes I just leave a pull quote, but usually I try to add my own thoughts or make a connection to something else.

https://still.visualmode.dev/blogmarks

New comment by jbranchaud in "From Zero to GitHub: Starting a New Jj (Jujutsu) Repo"

jbranchaud — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 02:20:06 +0000

I don't remember my first steps with subversion, mercurial, or git too well, but I don't think any of them were any more intuitive. My understanding is that jj is supposed to be easier to use for day-to-day version control. I'm very comfortable with git, but that was hard earned and I don't see that level of confidence with most devs that I've worked with over the years. Hoping jj can be more accessible to the average working software engineer than git has been.

From Zero to GitHub: Starting a New Jj (Jujutsu) Repo

jbranchaud — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 01:06:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.visualmode.dev/from-zero-to-github-starting-a-new-jj-jujutsu-repo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46102265

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

A Decade of TILs

jbranchaud — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 17:30:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.visualmode.dev/a-decade-of-tils

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975194

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by jbranchaud in "Decoupling design from engineering"

jbranchaud — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 19:32:11 +0000

The core advice of the article seems relevant and useful to both of those types of design.

New comment by jbranchaud in "Decoupling design from engineering"

jbranchaud — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:29:47 +0000

Great article -- I'm going set aside some time with a notebook and pencil today and give this a try.

I'm not sure I agree with the left brain/right brain, analytical and logical vs creative and emotional dichotomy. I think good design work can be just as analytical as it is creative. I think it has to be when it comes to UI and UX.

Pay for Good Tools

jbranchaud — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:19:28 +0000

Article URL: https://buttondown.com/defragmenter/archive/pay-for-good-tools/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42008378

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by jbranchaud in "Pandoc"

jbranchaud — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 18:36:55 +0000

I outsource most of my esoteric `jq` syntax questions to ChatGPT. It does really well with them, usually turning up solutions that I'd struggle to munge together from several different google search results.

I wonder how ChatGPT would do with focussed pandoc requests.

New comment by jbranchaud in "Ask HN: How to build infinite grid in the browser?"

jbranchaud — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 21:16:26 +0000

Moveable looks like a super full-featured library for this kind of thing https://daybrush.com/moveable/

New comment by jbranchaud in "Ask HN: How to build infinite grid in the browser?"

jbranchaud — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:35:02 +0000

Maybe this: https://interactjs.io/

Ask HN: How to build infinite grid in the browser?

jbranchaud — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 17:56:42 +0000

If you wanted to build a tool in the browser that allowed you to add, edit, connect, and move elements on an infinite grid like 1) https://natto.dev/example/2444ffca064a4890a7f05ca1de386c5a and 2) https://stately.ai/registry/new, where would you start? How would you build an infinite grid? I kinda expected to find an open source library with the base functionality, but I've turned up nothing so far.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38307276

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

New comment by jbranchaud in "Collection of "Today I Learned" notes"

jbranchaud — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 15:16:38 +0000

Hey, I'm Josh, the creator of this TIL repo. I've started it back in 2015 and still contribute to it a couple times a week. I reference TILs all the time to remember how to do something. It has been a great practice and I'd recommend to anyone to maintain their own TIL repo.

AMA!

New comment by jbranchaud in "Use fzf for tmux session switching"

jbranchaud — Mon, 09 May 2022 00:13:45 +0000

I tend to use one tmux session per project. I usually have 2-3 open for various client projects, one open for my TIL repository, and then I go from there. Within those sessions I tend to have separate windows and panes as a way of organizing any (web) servers and other long-running processes. The 'first' window of each session is usually a split between Vim (where I'm working) and zsh (where I'm executing git commands, running tests, etc.).

“Bit Bucket” and other names for /dev/null

jbranchaud — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 03:08:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.putorius.net/introduction-to-dev-null.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26282246

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by jbranchaud in "One Thousand TILs and Counting"

jbranchaud — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 20:44:15 +0000

> I refer back to mine a LOT. The principal audience for them is future me - if anyone else finds them useful too that's just a bonus.

100% this. Several times a week I'll be trying to do something, remember I've written about, and then find a TIL my past-self wrote that explains how to do the thing. It's really satisfying each time it happens.

New comment by jbranchaud in "One Thousand TILs and Counting"

jbranchaud — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 20:42:23 +0000

I wrote about my thinking and process behind this TIL repo here: https://dev.to/jbranchaud/how-i-built-a-learning-machine-45k...

New comment by jbranchaud in "One Thousand TILs and Counting"

jbranchaud — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 20:34:10 +0000

Because all these posts are 200 words or less, they tend to be the kind of thing you can read in ~90 seconds. I like sharing these smaller learnings to twitter. For a venue like HN though, I agree they don't meet quite the effort threshold.

One Thousand TILs and Counting

jbranchaud — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 20:14:27 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jbranchaud/til

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25781851

Points: 10

# Comments: 6

Show HN: Used SQL to solve Advent of Code puzzle

jbranchaud — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 15:28:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFtYX6z6DVo&t=2s

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25374673

Points: 2

# Comments: 0