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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 02/07/2026

As much as I resented having to do so, I signed up for Premium a while ago and it’s up there with one of my best subscriptions

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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 · 24/04/2026

That sounds confusing in retrospect. You can either run it in git colocated mode where the git repo is front and centre alongside jj, or jj-only mode where it is still backed by git, but it’s purely an internal concern

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 24/04/2026

The latter (although I believe it’ll maintain its own git repo internally)

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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 · 15/04/2026

Great article, I didn’t know about functional, partial and covering SQL indexes

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

Joking of course, but I think I meant to get the X3. It’s still cool though, excited to play with it

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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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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 19/03/2026

Didn’t think anyone had read it but just found a bunch of comments on HN, Lobsters and Reddit—a very nice surprise! And an improvement to the workflow, double result

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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...

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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

As I understand it, the milk container goes into a heated water bath and rotates. It’s also depressurised so that the milk can evaporate at a much lower temperature and avoid burning. It then travels into the condenser on top where they can decide which components to keep and control the flavour

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

Well the first time I’ve seen one full stop actually

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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

The author also has a tool for semantic code review, based on a similar concept github.com/Ataraxy-Labs... Definitely some interesting ideas to keep an eye on

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GitHub - Ataraxy-Labs/inspect

Contribute to Ataraxy-Labs/inspect development by creating an account on GitHub.

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

I don’t often find myself dealing with conflicts to be honest, but maybe I’ll try to create some more overlapping tasks to give me an excuse to try it 🤭

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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!

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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 · 01/03/2026

Terrible photo but this was a missile being intercepted #Dubai

Glowing trails are seen in the sky after a missile is intercepted over Dubai

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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 · 12/02/2026

I’ve been using this! It’s not bad, the config is a bit fiddly and sometimes it seems to get a bit bogged down but it does the job

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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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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 05/12/2025

Good luck! It looks like the `--ignore-working-copy` might now be redundant as of the latest release (v0.36.0)

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Ben Gesoff @ben.gesoff.uk · 04/12/2025

I run `watch --color jj --ignore-working-copy log --color=always` in another terminal pane and it works a treat (credit: docs.jj-vcs.dev/latest/faq/#...)

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FAQ - Jujutsu docs

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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 · 31/10/2025

…and I feel like I’ve mastered it. Splitting, squashing, rebasing changes are all trivial now. I even discovered `jj fix` today for running formatters and linters over every change without ever having to resolve conflicts

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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 · 31/08/2025

I use Obsidian Web Clipper. It’s good if you already use Obsidian for notes because it saves the content as markdown in your notes, along with arbitrary tags and the original URL

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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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