Yeah, I’ve actually been thinking about adding a toggle, because some folks really like having the slides there, and some folks do not. A better layout for talks (side-by-side, e.g.) could help, too.

I debated including XKCD 2347 in the talk but figured it was “too easy”: everyone was already thinking of it anyway!

Edit: Went ahead and added an inline toggle on the page for showing/hiding the slides. I will think about how to generalize it/tweak it in the future, but that should help for this one, at least!

I think you read into the article some things that weren’t there. The question from the colleague was why I was even interested in learning something we all knew (me included!) we wouldn’t use there. At no point did I propose using Rust at that .NET shop! The whole point was that I was curious about and enthusiastically learning—on the side, on my own time!—a technology that was totally unrelated to my job. Pretty sure the closest that shop ever got to Rust was when I shared interesting bits about it in the company’s wide-open tech talk series, but that series also included folks sharing things like “this cool thing I did with a Raspberry Pi” and “look at what cool hacks you can do with Amazon Alexa” and so on. Long story short, you’re not even responding to what I actually wrote, but to something else that you (probably for good reasons in your own experience) get button-mashed by! (Me too, for what it’s worth!)

If you enable the watchman integration, then you actually get very close to this: your current change’s evolution log and the repo operation log will have every change which was persisted to disk. There are tradeoffs to that, of course, but it’s a very powerful capability—and notice that it’s something that would be a huge pain to cobble together somehow in GitHub which Just Works in Jujutsu. It falls cleanly out of making the working copy a commit.

It does not implement Git worktrees, but instead implements its own notion of workspaces which frankly I find much nicer (unsurprisingly!). As with most things jj: just as much or more power than Git, but less hassle.

Working with submodules natively (see steveklabnik’s sibling comment for the “non-native” bit) will definitely be a big win.

I actually find jj great for (1). The project I reference working on in this post is in exactly that bucket, and the kinds of things I do with it are not “complicated” but jj is still much, much better than working with Git—not least for the kind of workflow I showed in this post!

Thanks to the feedback in this discussion, the article now does discuss 5at line; much obliged to all the folks who helped me fix a substantial error.

Yeah, a thing I implemented years ago to handle the ability to hide the side nav on wide screens never worked quite the way I expected. Making it not do that except when specifically toggling the nav has always been on the “to-do”, just never made it to the top of my priority list.

Ah, you’re totally right; I badly misstated that. I’ll update it tomorrow accordingly. Thank you for the correction. Your last comment before the edit is one part of what I was trying to get at; the other was that Drop itself must uphold the relevant constraints in its own operation. Like I said, great clarification/ correction and I’ll be glad to fix it!

I just published an update to the post which corrected the title, URL, and content, and also published an additional post calling attention to the error and explaining it (https://v5.chriskrycho.com/notes/corrections-using-drop-safe...). Thanks again for flagging it up, @dathinab!

In some sense even the best talks are an attempt to distill things we have learned into a tight enough package that it helps people (a) think a little differently and (b) go read and learn more themselves. Sometimes that turns into self-promoting puffery, but I don’t claim to have anything particularly original to say in this talk. To the contrary: the whole point and structure of the talk is “This stuff is out there, let’s pull it together and get thinking about it!”—pointing to good work other people have done.

Now, maybe it lands that way and maybe it doesn’t, but I think that our industry could use lots of “discovering something mundane and wrapping it up as a TED talk” if it helps us to be more serious practitioners of the discipline. Most of what we need is mundane, after all! But that doesn’t mean it is unimportant, and it doesn’t mean everyone already knows it.

> I suggest never beginning an introduction with "this is the best talk I've ever given".

Heh, this is fair, and I actually just edited the intro in response to that feedback. In my defense, the talk itself doesn’t start that way; that was how I introduced for the folks who read my blog via feed or email subscription. Might need to iterate on having ways to add “feed-only content” for that kind of thing, because I think it’s reasonable to say that in the context of folks who already follow your work, but you’re right that it’s weird at the start of a “regular” blog post for people coming to it fresh!

Sorry to hear the rest of it didn’t land for you. Can’t win them all!

I hate being "mean" but I'll admit sometimes my frustrations get the better of me.

I am interested in efforts to connect the act of programming with the large issues of human existence. However, I tend to also be critical these approaches also have the danger of creating shallow, surface comparisons that don't actually provide much value.

In this case, I feel "high modernism" as a concept loses most of it's content if one removes all particular historical strands that made it. Applied in the abstract, it becomes "central control bad, M'kay".

The interesting thing is you describe a lot of programming programs reasonably but it seems obvious to me that the answer to them is ... centralization and control. The problem of many systems is that software gives the impression that everyone's needs can be accommodated simultaneously and so results in actually contradictory requirements - especially when there isn't central control of the requirements. I'm sure that could be spun as too much central control too but that spin just seems unnatural.