Jesse Duffield

@DuffieldJesse

I make terminal UIs for powerful but powerfully frustrating command line programs

Melbourne, Australia
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Joined August 2018
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    Mar 4

    It feels like the decay of the web fuels the rise of newletters. Emails load fast, with zero JavaScript and reasonable privacy. It’s like a push version of Web 1.0.

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  2. Apr 7

    whenever a design decision seems really stupid I experience anxiety and have to calm myself down by repeating the mantra 'there is a use case which necessitates this design which I haven't considered'

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    Apr 1

    Full video for the Leiter-Caplan Capitalism vs. Socialism debate is now up!

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  4. Mar 18

    If anybody out there has a repo thats always way ahead of its homebrew core version (cos youre too lazy to put up a PR), try my friend’s action to automatically put up the PR for you!

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    Mar 18

    Make advanced Git tasks simple with Lazygit via by

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  6. Mar 17

    The longer I work at a startup, the more that the idea of working for a corporation gives me shivers. But I like that Tyler Cowen is currently making a case for them when the consensus seems to be a little too strongly against them

    The Love Letter has a p.s.:
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  7. Mar 15

    Forget price hikes, why is coco-quench ON SALE? 40% off! My usual response it to buy the whole lot, but now people will think I’m panic-buying. I’m really just normal-buying, I promise!

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  8. Mar 14

    When listening to a podcast about a recently released book, I feel the same way towards the book as I do towards a prequel series. Things are being debated in the podcast that aren't covered in the book, making it feel a little underdeveloped. Hard to then justify reading it

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  9. Mar 13

    Great article by , it's encouraging to see a blog with programmery and philosophical posts side by side. One day I might de-anonymise my non-coding posts as well (currently slightly paranoid at how the tech community treats certain viewpoints)

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  10. Mar 13

    Glad you like it!

    Unpopular opinion: Git's CLI is damn painful. Getting used to a text-based UI for Git: Impressive work 🤩
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  11. Mar 12

    powerful contribution to the theory vs data debate in economics. Could be a strawman but contains good examples

    How should 101 be taught- with theory or data? Don Boudreaux on 's popular new intro class:
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  12. Mar 9

    (obviously this reasoning only works when there's a large pool to select from in the first place)

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  13. Mar 9

    Thinking about selection bias does wonders for mediating surprise levels. I might think 'I'm surprised that this online book is free' but my next thought is 'of course it's free! otherwise my friend would have linked me another one that _was_ free on the same topic'

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  14. Mar 8

    Is there a website I can go to where I can read through an archive of private conversations? Even if it's in the form of old letters between people? I feel like such a website should exist but I can't find one (assuming everything was sourced ethically of course)

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  15. Mar 5

    My company, ActivePipe is hiring. Free friday lunches, lots of table tennis, and really cool people. React/Rails stack with some golang. Message me to learn more!

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  16. Mar 4

    Just occurred to me that it's spring in the US and Wuhan, which is when you would expect viruses to be a bigger threat. Australia's in autumn right now so perhaps the risk is overstated here, for geographical reasons? Is that how it works?

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  17. Mar 2

    'Citizens of Australia, as prime minister I regret to inform you that the time for freaking out has come. Please begin panicking as we decide as a nation what to do moving forward'

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  18. Mar 2

    Most arguments about abstraction in software development, which includes 'the wrong abstraction', can be analogised to early specialisation in education. But I'm a fan of early specialisation, and have grown cautious about the wrong abstraction, so cognitive dissonance is at play

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  19. Mar 2

    I feel deep admiration when I see the owner of an open source repo push back against the popular demands of the community. Chances are the community is right, but I still admire the skill of saying 'no'

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  20. Feb 26

    I don't even blame youtube or the people who upload the videos, it's just a shame that they appeal to our baser instincts and that in turn feeds the algorithms to serve us more clickbaity advice videos that pull us away from our original goals.

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