New Blog Redesign

Some people get their kicks climbing mountains or jumping out of planes... I get mine by posting funny things in slack during meetings and trying to not laugh while my webcam is on.

It’s not a good sign when my browser autocompletes www.githubstatus.com so fast.

Just added the GitHub Unicorn as a new Slack emoji... because that's all I've seen today.

Awesome, glad it is working well! I guess I should go ahead and publish it up as a community plugin. (and also, most of the work goes to the Book Search plugin because it is mostly based on that work)

I'm so tempted to say, "Perfect! Now I have a comprehensive understanding." in my next call. Hmm...

We got bit by the "System Data" bug on my wife's iPhone this past week... 30-40gb of storage that we can't do anything about. Setting the date a year in the future removed 10gb, but a day later, it is almost all back. She couldn't take a photo and her calendar wouldn't show any events.

ripgrep and the rgignore file

Not bad for my git-wrapped.com for the year. See git-wrapped.com/profiles/drm....

2025 Year in Review Well, 2025 is a wrap and we're in 2026. As I've tried to do over the last few years, I want to reflect on how the year went and on some of the things I've learned and the highlights.

I posted my 2025 year in review up at mohundro.com/blog/2026-01....

Not sure I've said this, but I prefer to pronounce "URL" as "you hurl"... at least when I'm in a silly mood.

At least three levels of downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com

Does this mean we should start self-hosting our down detectors? But then we need a peer to peer distributed version of down detection to tell us when OUR down detector is down. Right? RIGHT?

Parents: make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and microwave Mac and cheese because we’re in a hurry
9 year old: THANK YOU FOR MAKING THE BEST LUNCH EVER

I’m at @allthingsopen.bsky.social this week - looking forward to some great content!

Garbage collection - "the act or process of collecting trash code before deletion, for posterity or pettiness."

Our code-gore channel, "Post/share the goriest code you find... we'll empathize with and laugh at you"

From the @changelog.com's latest email, it mentions "garbage collection"... we've for years had a "#code-gore" channel that we do the same thing in. These things are great.

I told you we’d be back

My open source story was one of many featured on the OSI site for Maintainer Month - see my OSS story at opensource.org/maintainers/... and see more at opensource.org/maintainers.

I just had the kindest (and unprompted!) LinkedIn recommendation written for me ever... it absolutely made my day.

I just finished South of Midnight and loved it. The music was incredible - I’ve never experienced a game that integrated music like that!

"Something's not quite right." - our hair is literally on fire.

slack-status.com

bsky.app/profile/davi...

We're thrilled to use overly enthusiastic language to share this new mostly uninspiring news to try to get you more excited than we actually are. Oh, I forgot the exclamation point!

I’m still a huge fan of git but there have been a few posts on Hacker News that have been highly positive towards jj so I’m curious. Also, it is entirely backwards compatible with git and you can use jj against a git repo so your team doesn’t have to migrate to anything new.

I'm just trying to see if I can understand the recent hype for jj and use it for something real.

A simple example is the gitconfig in my dotfiles... I have local changes that are OS-specific (Mac or Windows usually) that shouldn't get pushed. Granted, I could probably use some sort of includeIf directive, but it feels complicated. Maybe I'm just too used to git, though.

I spent a bit of time reading up on jujutsu and, maybe I'm weird, but I like git's staging area. I frequently have local-only changes (not gitignored though) for local config changes or similar. And I have no idea how I would do that in jj.

It's been a flu kind of weekend.

Rolling credits on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - incredible. I think I’ve been grinning the whole time.

My kids saw Snoop Dogg on a commercial and said, “Hey! It’s the Olympics guy!”

It is very annoying to try to wipe and reinstall an OS on really old Mac hardware... I have a 2009 iMac that I'm donating and I don't have the installation media. And I wiped it before creating installation media. And all the steps assume Intel chipsets.

My Dygma Raise 2 keyboard came in today and I'm loving it... I had a few issues with the initial firmware update, but it is smooth sailing now. The Bazecor app is super impressive, too. This is going to be fun. I'll post a follow up blog later.