Paul Smith

jjq is a CLI tool that lets you, or more likely, a coding agent, submit a change to be considered for landing on the trunk of a jj repository.

I added support for the -m|--message flag to the jj workspace add command, so you can set a message for the new commit that jj creates associated with the workspace.

TL;DR: I made a website for the original classic Mac patterns I was working on something and thought it would be fun to use one of the classic Mac black-and-white patterns in the project.

Seeing this reminded me of how much I like jj absorb.

I grepped the scm-record repo for command names I was familiar with, and, finding the ui.rs source that maps key strokes and mouse clicks to commands, I extracted them into a cheatsheet-style layout suitable for quick reference while learning and using jj…

Ten years ago today, on Friday, October 18, 2013, the effort to fix HealthCare.gov began in earnest.

I saw “Oppenheimer” this weekend at the Music Box in Chicago, in its theater capable of projecting 70mm film.

My home network (which is also my work network) is a standard-issue Comcast cable hookup.

Sewing After years of looking at the sewing machine in the closet and saying I should learn how to use it, I did something about it this year.

Go 1.7—out today!

Update: See a better way of doing this below.

This is a simple and easily generalizable way to put an upper-bound on the maximum number of simultaneous clients to a Go net/http server or handler.

There was a moment last Friday while I was on top of the soon-to-open Bloomingdale Trail with a tour group when I had a strange feeling.

Update: On April 6, 2015, the City of Chicago updated its Data Portal with the official wards and precincts shapefiles. tl;dr: I tried to make a map of Chicago election results, I found only out-of-date wards & precincts shapefiles, I had to FOIA the up-t…

I enjoy making toy programming languages to better understand how compilers (and, ultimately, the underlying machine) work and to experiment with techniques that aren’t in my repertoire.

I said “smell you later” to some printed t-shirts in my possession today.

Everyone knows python -m SimpleHTTPServer to start a quick webserver in a directory, it’s pretty awesome.

Here are a few things that have kept my interest lately: Immediate-Mode Graphical User Interfaces Immediate-mode GUI is a straight-forward way of rendering a UI.

The story of how HealthCare.gov was fixed is told by Stephen Brill in the cover story of the March 10, 2014 issue of TIME magazine.

For the past 18 days, I have been part of the so-called “tech surge” that is helping to fix healthcare.gov.

Cross-posted at Talking Points Memo Full disclosure: my wife works at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (and this post is entirely my views, not hers), I worked on the president’s re-election campaign, and politically, I wish to see the PPACA…