Jesse Duffield

Can't be fucked: Underrated cause of tech debt

Can’t Be Fucked Aussie slang for not wanting to, or not having the energy and motivation to do something. “Man, i really can’t be fucked changing the channel, let’s just watch Springer.” - Urban Dictionary

Beginner's Guide to Abstraction

Read this post ‘unless’ you’re not a Ruby developer

Disclaimer: prepare for hair-splitting and nitpicking

Lazygit Turns 5: Musings on Git, TUIs, and open source

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It's death

I’m feeling hungry, so I go to my kitchen and turn on the stove. I inadvertently have the handle of the frying pan sitting above the flame and when I go to pick up the pan my entire hand melts off in an instant.

Go’ing Insane: Endless Error Handling

I’ve been using Go for a few years now, mostly in my open source project Lazygit. In my day job I use Ruby and Typescript, and I’ve also spent some time with Rust. Each of those languages have design quirks that can grind a developer’s gears, and although my own precious gears have been ground by every language I’ve…

Code Smell of the Day: Type Keys (2021)

Note: On the back of some feedback I’ve created a follow-up of this post where I refine the thesis. I’ve left this post as-is for the sake of comparison

Beyond coupling and cohesion: strategies for un-fucking yourself

This post belongs in the ‘highly speculative’ category. It contains ideas that I’ve yet to flesh out and properly pin down. Reader beware!