Julia Evans

are you interested in learning to use Git (as a total beginner?) I'd love your feedback on a Git tutorial! Sign up here: forms.gle/msQDVyJtEtre... the tutorial will be available for free on git-scm.com when it's done, and we need a few more testers to make that possible!

i'm looking for some Windows users to test a new tutorial about Git for beginners! If you sign up here I'll send you an email next week or so with a link: forms.gle/69NgKWuqtEHU... (non-Windows users welcome too but I have a lot of linux & mac users already :))

periodic reminder that Wizard Zines has an educational use policy if you want to use them in your university courses! wizardzines.com/education/

big news about the Wizard Zines store: print orders from Europe now ship from a European warehouse in Germany!!! get your zines here: wizardzines.com and here's the shipping FAQ with all the details: store.wizardzines.com/pages/shippi...

big news about the Wizard Zines store: print orders from Europe now ship from a European warehouse in Germany!!! get your zines here: wizardzines.com and here's the shipping FAQ with all the details: store.wizardzines.com/pages/shippi...

It's Friday, and I want to give a shoutout to @standardebooks.org an ongoing project to convert *public domain* classics into beautifully rendered ebooks. I love how they organize the books into collections, such as the The Guardian's Best 100 Novels standardebooks.org/collections/...

been making a single-page app with pocketbase.io this week and it's been a nice experience. I like making single-page JS apps with a Go backend API and this means that I don't have to write the Go backend. Really impressive project given that it's built by one person in their spare time.

cool to see that the ICFP programming contest this year is focused on systems programming icfpcontest2026.com

some more things about Django I've been enjoying jvns.ca/blog/2026/07...

wizard zines has its first translation! How Git Works (wizardzines.com/zines/git) is now available in Korean, translated by ByteFreaksStudio inf.run/XYiAR I do not know how to read Korean but it's very cool to see :)

learning a few things about running SQLite jvns.ca/blog/2026/07...

the next version of Python is going to have a built in sampling profiler!!!! this is so exciting to see docs.python.org/3.15/library...

exciting to read about this work on rv, uv has made Python so much easier for me

What’s the web I want? A free space for creative expression. Free from the pressure to conform to the same old same boring factory churn. Remember when the web felt like this? gridlanes.webkit.org #thewebyouwant

My dad: I'm buying your book Me on the phone: I will just bring you a copy My dad: YOU NEED A GUARANTEED SALE. I'M BUYING YOUR BOOK AND SO IS YOUR UNCLE My uncle from the other room: you will sell two books don't turn this down My dad: no one even buys books anymore don't turn this down 🥲🥲🥲

it's cool to read other people's takes on how to organize their CSS

What is a harmonic? Check out the interactive comics about additive synthesis that @aleclongstreth.bsky.social and I made! melatonin.dev/additive-syn...

this looks super cool, i like how in open-props-ui.netlify.app/html/compone... you can literally copy and paste all the html/css for that component (minus the base theme stuff) and it seems like a reasonable size

I've started using ** in Fish instead of find & xargs and I really love it, instead of writing `find . -name '*.py' | xargs wc -l` I can just write `wc -l **.py` it hasn't 100% replaced `find` for me but I'm definitely using xargs way less than I used to

just saw this review of "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" and it's the best feeling when someone got exactly what I'd hoped they'd get from the zine wizardzines.com/zines/termin...

excited to announce that Wizard Zines is now shipping Canadian orders from Canada! now shipping is cheaper & there's no risk of being hit with duties get your zines at wizardzines.com

links to css colour palettes jvns.ca/blog/2026/05... (from a discussion over on mastodon)

Happy May Day! currently making a tiny game about the *Robins des Ruelles* a group of 60 people in Montreal who put on costumes and rob grocery stores to feed the hungry

testing Vue components in the browser jvns.ca/blog/2026/05...

passkey is imho one of the most important security developments that touch consumers and also one of the worst consumer rollouts i ever witnessed because every company involved treats everything like an enterprise customer solution

I have written a blog post about how my blog (and most of the rest of my online presence) is all stuck in a small box that lives under a TV: codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/...

what’s refreshing about #atmosphereconf is how interdisciplinary the subjects and speakers are - it’s not all code but instead showcasing the roles of scientists, journalists and creators. the community is multi-faceted and have a shared interest in combatting misinformation and abuse.

Nice! A while ago I also wrote about Diffie-Hellman as an illustrated children’s book with no math whatsoever (using a paint mixing analogy) www.amazon.com/dp/173741905X/

i still remember learning this in school and finding it absolutely magical. imagine you and a person you’ve never met sit down at a bar, surrounded by mathematicians. you speak random numbers to each other. in a few minutes, you have agreed on the same random number, and no one else knows what it is

I want to have a little anniversary thread about the economics of running a podcast while also being a writer (and in my cohost's case, an academic) Because I think some people might think I'm living off having written a bestselling book seven years ago and lemme tell you, that doesn't math

I just discovered wizardzines.com by @b0rk.jvns.ca when searching for nginx playground (nginx-playground.wizardzines.com). What a fantastic site (and playground). And incredibly it was the first result that came up in Google. It was like searching the web in 2003. Sometimes the web works very well.

we just added a way to merge accounts to library.wizardzines.com, so that if you've used more than one email to buy zines you can see all your zines in one place!

every so often people report errors in the zines (thank you!). Just made a new page with all the errors that have been reported & fixed so far here: wizardzines.com/errors/

examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages jvns.ca/blog/2026/03...

I've released a new word game called Parseword, that tries to make cryptic crosswords more accessible. You can play it here: www.parseword.com

worked with the tcpdump folks on an updated set of examples for the tcpdump man page www.tcpdump.org/manpages/tcp... the idea is that if you've forgotten how tcpdump's basic flags work, you can find a quick reference in the man page!

really nice profile of Wizard Zines from the Cambridge Centre for Computing History! www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/76804/Ju...