iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jujutsu VCS @jj-vcs.dev · 02/07/2026

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

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 30/05/2026

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

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 28/04/2026

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

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oppiliappan's μsings

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 21/04/2026

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

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 17/04/2026

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

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Jon @chrt.dev · 15/04/2026

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...

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Things you didn't know about indexes

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 03/04/2026

Bought an XTEINK X4 and something doesn’t quite look like the pictures… www.xteink.com/products/xte...

An e-reader stuck to the back of a phone sideways

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 23/03/2026

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)

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Juttu @juttu.app · 22/03/2026

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? :)

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

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...

terrygodier.com

The Last Quiet Thing

Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 17/03/2026

“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.

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Philip Z @philz.dev · 06/03/2026

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

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APIs for the RESTless - exe.dev blog

Mint your own bearer tokens for exe.dev's HTTP API.

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 05/03/2026

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

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 05/03/2026

First time I’ve ever seen a “rotary evaporator” machine used on milk to make coffee

A rotary evaporator machine to treat milk to make a coffee

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 04/03/2026

Weave is an alternative merge driver for Git to semantically merge code based on the code instead of just lines in a file. Very cool concept ataraxy-labs.github.io/weave/ And a clever name!

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weave — Entity-Level Semantic Merge for Git

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 02/03/2026

I’ve written a bit about my @jj-vcs.dev workflow for reviewing others’ code. Still room to improve the process but I’m finding value in it so thought I’d share. Feedback welcome!

bengesoff.leaflet.pub

Reviewing large changes with Jujutsu

A new workflow for code review I'm exploring with Jujutsu VCS

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 28/02/2026

Crazy seeing missiles exploding in the sky out of the window

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 22/01/2026

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 🤌🏼

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 24/12/2025

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.

commaok.xyz

Just in time software

I didn’t plan to write software in the grocery store last night. I was tired and hungry, kids in tow. My long shopping list sat in a text message. I wished I could check items off as I found them.…

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 14/12/2025

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.

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apenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 30/11/2025

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.

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 24/10/2025

Finally tried #jujitsu after having had it installed for a few months. Wow it only took like an hour to get comfortable with it in a git colocated repo, why didn’t I do this sooner? It fits my typical git rebase workflow perfectly with way fewer steps

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TigerBeetle @tigerbeetle.com · 24/09/2025

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

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 28/08/2025

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?...

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Rust for Everyone!

YouTube video by Jane Street

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 20/08/2025

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!

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Charlie Marsh @crmarsh.com · 13/08/2025

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".

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Luca Palmieri @lpalmieri.com · 11/08/2025

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.

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 07/08/2025

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?...

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What Isn't Your System Supposed to Do? by Hillel Wayne

YouTube video by TigerBeetle

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Gunnar Morling @gunnarmorling.dev · 05/08/2025

"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.

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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · 29/07/2025

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. 💜)

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Disposable Code Is Here to Stay, but Durable Code Is What Runs the World

Every day I seem to run into yet another post with someone solemnly opining that “writing code has never been the hardest part of software engineering. And hey, that’s smashing.

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 29/07/2025

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

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GitButler ⧓ @gitbutler.com · 22/07/2025

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...

blog.gitbutler.com

Managing Multiple Claude Code Sessions Without Worktrees

With Claude Code's new lifecycle hooks, GitButler can now automatically sort simultaneous AI coding sessions into separate branches. Write three features at the same time, get three independent branch...

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 03/07/2025

Having used Duolingo for a long time to practise Spanish, I recently started listening to Language Transfer on SoundCloud and it is EXCELLENT www.languagetransfer.org

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Language Transfer

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Charlie Marsh @crmarsh.com · 03/07/2025

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.

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 10/06/2025

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.

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shikhar @schmizz.net · 03/06/2025

You can now safely share @s2.dev streams directly with end clients like browsers, apps, or agents! No proxying required. Check it out, s2.dev/blog/access-...

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 20/05/2025

I’ve been trying out @gitbutler.com recently and it’s a HUGE productivity boost. Before it would take me multiple steps of rebasing and stashing things to get my changes how I want them, but now it’s a simple drag and drop.

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grjte @grjte.sh · 23/04/2025

🧵 The AT Protocol (atproto), which underlies Bluesky, lets us to interface with the same data in as many ways as we can conceive of through AppViews that each provide a different "view" of the network. Can we make our local-first software as interoperable as the AT Protocol? 👇

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 08/04/2025

Just attended the #QuintLang virtual launch party where they announced their #RustRewrite! Excited to try and model the communication between our algo engine and an exchange to see if there are any unnoticed race conditions

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Tailscale @tailscale.com · 03/04/2025

🎉We're celebrating 5 years of Tailscale! Read on for key lessons learned from half a decade of simplifying secure networking + enter to win one of five lifetime Personal Plus plans! Repost to win 👉 Read more tailscale.com/blog/5-thing... 🗒️ Full rules here - tailscale.com/blog/5-thing...

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 06/04/2025

Extremely cool implementation of an interpreter in Go. Instead of compiling to bytecode and then executing it in a separate VM, just "compile" directly to Go functions (capturing arguments with closures) and execute them directly. Very clean!

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 05/04/2025

A few months ago I started looking at TLA+ as an extra tool to test the behaviour of complex code without having to manually think of every edge case. I had to pause as the syntax and tooling had a steep learning curve. I’ve discovered quint-lang.org this week and it seems a lot more approachable!

quint-lang.org

Quint

An executable specification language

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