@jdx

mise bootstrap already supported two common ways of managing dotfiles: keep them in a repository and symlink them into place, as GNU Stow does, or generate the live files from stored sources and templates, as chezmoi normally does.

I’m introducing packslip, a signed manifest vendors publish alongside their releases.

I’m introducing mr-boxington, a build cache for Rust that shares compilations across your machine and cleans up after itself.

For the last several years, I’ve been building and maintaining developer tools in my spare time, chiefly mise.

For sponsorships, consulting, speaking, or anything else — I read everything that comes through here.

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Assuming you’ve setup mise and have it configured in a couple of projects to switch between different versions of node, that will happen automatically when entering the project directories: $ cd ~/src/proj1 $ node -v 20.0.0 $ cd ~/src/proj2 $ node -v 18.0…

I’ve spent the last decade of my career in the developer productivity space.

Goal #1 with rtx was to be a drop-in replacement for asdf.

https://dev.to/jdxcode/beginners-guide-to-rtx-ac4

I had a 3-day weekend and decided to learn Rust while also putting together an idea I’ve had for a few years now: chim.

I’ve learned the hard way that starting a job on a large engineering team as a senior engineer is more than simply writing good code.

I’ve got a ton of different patterns I use when working with async code in JS.

Closures are fairly common in JS but are also sometimes used in Go and Python and many other languages.

If you haven’t done Part 1 you’ll need to start there.

If you haven’t done Part 1 you’ll need to start there.

This is a concise, opinionated guide to Kubernetes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Dave Cheney had a fantastic post on improving test structure in Go code with table-driven tests.

https://www.heroku.com/podcasts/codeish/13-oclif-an-open-source-cli-framework

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

https://medium.com/@jdxcode/12-factor-cli-apps-dd3c227a0e46

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

https://medium.com/@jdxcode/for-the-love-of-god-dont-use-npmignore-f93c08909d8d

https://engineering.salesforce.com/open-sourcing-oclif-the-cli-framework-that-powers-our-clis-21fbda99d33a

https://blog.heroku.com/evolution-of-heroku-cli-2008-2017

https://medium.com/@jdxcode/how-to-pair-program-d6741077e513

https://www.amazon.com/Write-Modern-Apps-MEAN-Stack/dp/0133930157

https://medium.com/@jdxcode/best-practices-for-building-angular-js-apps-266c1a4a6917

You can view my older posts on medium: https://medium.com/@jdxcode