Julia Evans

programming and exclamation marks

I have DMs muted from people I don’t follow.

blog: https://jvns.ca
zines: https://wizardzines.com

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2026-05-04 12:39:20 UTC

i've been working on moving away from Tailwind, and one thing I'm realizing I appreciated about Tailwind is having a basic color palette (blues, grays, greens, indigos, pinks, purples, reds, yellows) I could use while prototyping
i extracted it into css variables so I can still use it if I want:
https://gist.github.com/jvns/9e59b2cd1fe12601084ba78dded072fe
but now I'm curious: are there similar CSS color palettes like this out there?
https://cdn.masto.host/socialjvnsca/media_attachments/files/116/516/346/728/222/804/original/cc663b9cc12209d6.png

2026-01-19 23:00:43 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115924028281889489
i did not understand this until I tried to run Linux on a new thinkpad after years of running it on old computers

2025-01-29 16:29:15 UTC

i'm working on a giant terminal cheat sheet with
- how to quit
- redirect syntax
- keyboard shortcuts you can use (including in `less`)
- how to set environment variables
- some basic useful commands (history, !!, kill/pkill/killall/top, reset, alias, etc)
and it's really leaving me feeling like "how is anyone supposed to LEARN all of this stuff??” like all of this is theoretically documented and obviously I learned it somehow but it's split across so many different man pages

2024-11-21 19:00:11 UTC

working on this unix redirects diagram today
https://cdn.masto.host/socialjvnsca/media_attachments/files/113/522/481/960/689/404/original/617d92a7ba6a2096.png

2024-11-21 17:05:45 UTC

I love this protest game for Toronto bike lanes by @npub1tkn…0jmu so much, having a lot of fun dying repeatedly
play here: https://marieflanagan.com/loserlane/
#BikeTooter
https://cdn.masto.host/socialjvnsca/media_attachments/files/113/522/032/056/894/637/original/42af11efc56f2154.png

2024-09-03 16:04:14 UTC

I don't quite know what I'm going to do with this spreadsheet of like 120 terminal problems but I'm very into it

2024-08-08 14:18:09 UTC

trying to make a list of specific problems that people run into in the terminal (and their solutions), what are some problems you've run into?
here are 8 I've come with so far
https://cdn.masto.host/socialjvnsca/media_attachments/files/112/926/830/486/468/579/original/2164f6e379b98365.png

2024-06-30 16:55:06 UTC

- reply

I think I'm probably just going to write some code that takes the error responses from the API and translates them into error messages that make more sense in the context I'm showing them in

2024-06-30 15:16:46 UTC

I've been working on migrating https://messwithdns.net to use PowerDNS as a backend, mostly because there are all kinds of things that I didn’t handle properly in my initial implementation
But the error messages I get from PowerDNS feel a little confusing, for example if I try to add a record when there's already a CNAME there, I get the error "RRset orange.beryl5.messwithdns.com. IN A: Conflicts with pre-existing RRset”
which is _true_, but it doesn't explain what's happening
https://cdn.masto.host/socialjvnsca/media_attachments/files/112/706/230/808/497/365/original/a8079cf4dead41af.png