Julia Evans

Entries

• New microblog with TILs
  November 09, 2024

  I added a new section to this site a couple weeks ago called TIL (“today I learned”). the goal: save interesting tool...

• ASCII control characters in my terminal
  October 31, 2024

  Hello! I’ve been thinking about the terminal a lot and yesterday I got curious about all these “control codes”, like ...

• Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS
  October 27, 2024

  I’ve been having problems for the last 3 years or so where Mess With DNS periodically runs out of memory and gets OOM...

• Some notes on upgrading Hugo
  October 07, 2024

  Warning: this is a post about very boring yakshaving, probably only of interest to people who are trying to upgrade H...

• Terminal colours are tricky
  October 01, 2024

  Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was mostly happy with (...

• Some Go web dev notes
  September 27, 2024

  I spent a lot of time in the past couple of weeks working on a website in Go that may or may not ever see the light o...

• Reasons I still love the fish shell
  September 12, 2024

  I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years of using it every day later, I’ve found e...

• Migrating Mess With DNS to use PowerDNS
  August 19, 2024

  About 3 years ago, I announced Mess With DNS in this blog post, a playground where you can learn how DNS works by mes...