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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

got out for a disc golf round on a perfect New England fall afternoon, and even managed to throw pretty well This course has ridiculous pars, so I shot a -14 which I'm happy with but is somehow not a superb round

A disc golf fairway in Scarborough, ME with colorful fall foliage

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

The storm broke before my morning disc golf round, and I got some pretty light

a public park underneath some sunlight breaking through the clouds in a dramatic sort of Hudson River School sort of way

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

LCD Soundsystem with the whole family was a blast last night

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Had a lovely round of disc golf (my new obsession) this morning at Ledgewood Pass. This was the most fun hole, a short one over a ravine, and i also saw this hoppy boy that let me get up close

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Released version 1.4.0 of `mdriver`, my streaming markdown renderer, which now supports rendering mermaid diagrams to ascii. imo this is fun If image support is available and requested, it renders an image, and if not it tries to render an ascii diagram

A mermaid diagram rendered into an ascii chart by mdriver, via merman

The same mermaid diagram rendered into an image by mdriver, via merman

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

The sunset on my way home from summer league was truly spectacular

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Hiked the second-smallest peak of the Presidential range, Mt Pierce, with my boys; it was their second 4000 foot mountain and first time above treeline. They did great! There's nothing better than lunch on a bluebird day above treeline. From left to right, the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A view of the Presidential range from Mt Pierce

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

I actually didn't see the bug in this flower until I was processing the photo

A pink Beach Rose bloom with a bug inside it. Maybe the bug is dead?

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

A view of Portland, Maine this morning from my bedroom window as its plants explode to life

A view of Portland, Maine from my bedroom window as its plants explode to life

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

I added a `-s/--sort` option to `git ls` so that you can sort the listing by last date modified, and released it as version 7.0.1 github.com/llimllib/git-ls I went up a major version because it's technically backwards-incompatible; we used to show the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

a terminal window showing sorted, colorful, `git ls` output

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

Northern New England is finally bursting back into life. This shot is in Stratton, Vermont I’m trying to work back up the courage to use one of my real cameras, this is from my iPhone

A brook running in front of new green growth

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

I added a short diffstat to the end of `git ls -c` and released it as 6.1.0 github.com/llimllib/git-ls

screenshot of a terminal running `git ls -c`, which lists the changed files in a git repository. The new bit is at the end where it says "2 files +158 -186"

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

I also added a `--debug` argument that prints how long each operation took so I can find bottlenecks

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

Last week I hooked up nice-looking `git log` output with hyperlinks to make it easier to browse repository history in the terminal by clicking on it. This video shows it off a bit and explains how it works This is why I prefer kitty to ghostty - getting this […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

I've been using `git ls -c`, which lists only changed files, as a replacement for `git status`, and I'm pretty happy with it so far github.com/llimllib/git-ls

a terminal screenshot showing the output of `git ls -c` compared to `git status`

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026

I added github URL support to my `pr-review` tool that runs a code review with 4 different agents; this smooths the path for reviewing coworkers' PRs and includes their PR summaries as context for the agents. One thing I like to emphasize when I talk about this […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

a terminal window showing `pr-review` running against a PR in its own repo, summarizing the PR and complaining about a possible shell injection that doesn't seem very serious to me but I'll probably fix anyway 🤷

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

I noticed that `git-ls` was not handling renames correctly, so I fixed that. I also added a `--nerdfont` flag that makes `git-ls` use nerd font icons instead of the traditional letters that git uses Get version `5.4.0` with `brew upgrade […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

nerdfont experiment on top, normal output on bottom (without the fix for renames. Imagine an R by the renamed file)

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

David Hogg's article on LLMs in Astrophysics, "Why do we do Astrophysics?" is the most thoughtful critique I've yet read on the topic, and relevant for computer scientists and software developers: arxiv.org/html/2602.10181

So is everything fine? No everything is not fine. Recall that the practice of astrophysics cannot be learned from reading about astrophysics, and that astrophysics is not about obtaining the answers, but rather the work we do, ourselves, to find those answers. When we offload that work to LLMs, we are no longer doing astrophysics, we are no longer becoming astrophysicists, and, eventually, we no longer are astrophysicists. The let-them-cook policy, in the end, leads to the death of astrophysics, the end of astrophysics at universities, and the end of astrophysics education. Astrophysics would no longer be by humans, and then it would no longer be for humans.

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

When I complete features at work, I often make videos to demonstrate the new behavior, and I wanted to have tiktok-style captions on them. So, introducing `caption`: a shell script that uses mlx_whisper and ffmpeg to generate a transcript of your video and burn […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

had an idea today to use commit hashes as color codes in `git-ls`, which really makes it pop out which files were modified most recently in the same commit. Going to commit and release it shortly The idea came from this post about coloring hex codes in a hex […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026

I added mermaid support to `mdriver`, my streaming markdown renderer for the terminal. Getting emojis to work was an adventure! The approach I settled on kind of sucks, in order to get the fallback font to work right I had to load the entire system font db into […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

a terminal window showing that `mdriver` renders a mermaid diagram from a fenced code block into an image and displays it

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2026

Fixed a bug with fenced code display in mdriver and released `0.16.0`: notes.billmill.org/dev_blog/2026/03… Now I'm watching basketball and I told the agent to test against the spec and find more bugs, and it seems to be finding some nice corner case bugs

$OK, so blockquote renders the --- literally. Per spec, > foo\n> --- should be a setext heading inside a blockquote (h2 "foo"). But that's complex nesting behavior. Let me check a few more things: $ # Check: info string with backtick should NOT be treated as code fence cd /Users/llimllib/code/mdriver/find-more-bugs && printf '``` foo\x60bar\nbaz\n```\n' | cargo run -- --color=always 2>/dev/null | cat -v ^[[38;2;192;197;206mbaz ^[[0m This IS a bug. Per spec: "If the info string comes after a backtick fence, it may not contain any backtick characters." So ``` foo`bar should NOT be a code fence. But mdriver treats it as one.$

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026

I was inspired by claude's PR review agent announcment to release version 0.8.0 of pr-review today: - Much nicer output that shows you what it's doing - If you pass -v, the agents log all activity - A --html <session_id> flag to output an HTML page with the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

a screenshot of a terminal showing colored sub-agent output from the pr-review tool

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

@grammargirl there's a really great exhibit on early snowboard history currently at the Vermont Ski & Snowboard Museum in Stowe, I was there a couple weeks ago. Here's a picture I took of their early history board, there were lots of cool display models, photos, and letters

a board displaying a timeline of early snowboards

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026

The scene this morning as I walked down to pick up my car from the snow ban lot I love Maine

an empty road, a tree, large snow banks, a road, fresh snow, a stop sign, Casco bay and morning sunlight

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026

I've long liked the npm program `concurrently`, which runs multiple programs and interleaves their output, then sends them all sigint if you quit. Unfortunately, it being a node program makes it hard to use in other ecosystems. So I ported it to rust, as […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

a terminal window showing a frontend and a backend process running in the same terminal window

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

Joyee Cheung did a great job improving the node SEA process for building a binary: joyeecheung.github.io/blog/2026/01/… So I updated my Makefile and javascript executable size benchmarks […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A table showing binary sizes and compilation time for binaries in node, bun and deno

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

[uspol] This ruling by Judge Biery ordering the release of the 5-year-old we all know ICE kidnapped from the famous photograph is short and powerful. A third of it is a quote of the Declaration of Independence […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Apparent also is the government's ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence. Thirty-three-year-old Thomas Jefferson enumerated grievances against a would-be authoritarian king over our nascent nation. Among others were
- "He has sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People."
- "He has excited domestic Insurrection among us.”
- "For quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us."
- "He has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our Legislatures"

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026

I added deleted files support to `git-ls`, can't believe I had forgotten that! I've always wanted to use the ANSI strikethrough marker, and now's my chance github.com/llimllib/git-ls `brew install llimllib/git-ls/git-ls`

A terminal window showing git-ls, a program I use instead of/alongside 'git status' that shows more detailed information and includes useful hyperlinks

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026

Added callout support to `mdriver` and I think it looks pretty nice! I also added tty detection, so it won't try to colorize if you pipe its output, unless you add `--color=always` Released both features as version 0.11.0, you can install it on a mac with […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A terminal window showing nicely formatted github-flavored markdown callouts

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026

Hey neat, the LLM used `aver` to find an outdated action it was adding to `aver` and fixed it, without me saying anything

LLM: aver found an outdated action. Let me update it 🎉

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026

I sped up `git-ls` by 3x by parallelizing the `git log` calls. I still find this tool useful, though I hadn't touched it for 2 years before tonight It lists each file in your directory, along with its most recent git change and hyperlinks to the file, alongside […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

a listing of the files in the git-ls repository by the git-ls tool (so meta)

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

Naturally I picked a day when github is experiencing an outage to create a github actions version checker Anyway, it's in progress! github.com/llimllib/aver Let me know if this would be useful to you - I got tired of constantly having to google what […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A command line `aver` program that searches your repository for github actions and reports which ones are out of date, as well as the current version

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

`mdriver` can use the kitty image protocol to display images, and I'm just about to commit SVG support. I think it's reasonable to say that at this point it's the markdown renderer for the terminal with the nicest output that I know of. Gonna work up the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A terminal window showing the output from `mdriver`, a program for streaming markdown to the terminal and making it look nice. It includes four SVG badges from a github README.md, displaying in the terminal via the kitty image protocol

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

My ongoing claude code experiment has led me to get very familiar with, and annoyed by, this message

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

I needed a multiocular O emoji for slack this morning, so in case you do too, here you go I edited the SVG from wikipedia to add the white stroke outline, then generated the png with svg2png. There's a little glitch on the right side, but I'm just considering that as additional character

multiocular O, rendered as a PNG with a white stroked outline. Check out the wikipedia article on multiocular O if you've never heard of it before, it's pretty neat

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025

I have to get up but the cat has fallen asleep on my lap

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2025

First real snow in Portland today!

snow completely blanketing a tennis court overlooking the casco bay

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025

Today's script of the day is `parduck`, which opens up a parquet file in duckdb with a table name derived from the file. Created because I always for the "CREATE TABLE" syntax for importing a parquet file into duckdb, even though it's very easy […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A terminal screenshot demonstrating `parduck`

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025

@hrbrmstr just in the last 5 minutes, here's what we have from that AS (we use neither jsp, nor wordpress, all just random vuln scanning)

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/11/2025

For #caturday, here's my cat and our neighbor cat looking for things to kill in the same yard

A black cat named Notch (not named after the Minecraft guy) looks out the window at a small grassy backyard. Our neighbor's cat, across the yard, which is a black cat just like Notch, looks out the window of their house at the same yard, in the same pose

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2025

Got my Lichess blitz rating back over 1800 for the first time in a while (I never study, just play for kicks, so it fluctuates pretty randomly)

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Bill Mill @llimllib.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2025

This weekend I took a hike up Mt Osceola with my family, it was a great hike on a lovely day. Attached is the view northwards to Mt. Washington. It was my boys' first 4000 foot hike in the Whites, and they did great. I wanted to put up a photo gallery for my […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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