I write documentation and I program, so I know lots of ways to use a semicolon. Also, I am making bread, learning Dutch, and doing other normal human activities. 🇺🇸 in 🇳🇱https://bsky.app/profile/ddbeck.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/ddbeck.com/post/3mtyaumfejv2h"Release notes" for week 34, 2026. This is the first entry in an experiment I’m running for a few weeks, to write a summary of the things I completed as part of my work for clients. Perhaps it’s interesting! https://ddbeck.com/notes/release-notes-2026-w34?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky26 Aug 2026 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:facfcgrcxgd2ljlexo5piw23/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtyaumfejv2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/ddbeck.com/post/3mrmsuyw2362pNew note: jaq is "Pandoc for structured data" https://ddbeck.com/notes/jaq-structured-data?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky27 Jul 2026 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:facfcgrcxgd2ljlexo5piw23/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrmsuyw2362phttps://bsky.app/profile/ddbeck.com/post/3mrcqzcyy4d2gThe syntaxes jq uses for extracting an object’s keys, values, and entries are confusingly dissimilar. One of them is not like the others. A brief note with examples. https://ddbeck.com/notes/jq-object-entries-keys-and-values?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky23 Jul 2026 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:facfcgrcxgd2ljlexo5piw23/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrcqzcyy4d2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/ddbeck.com/post/3mqjmeysbrt2wSpec fiction or that which was specified but never implemented https://ddbeck.com/notes/spec-fiction?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky13 Jul 2026 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:facfcgrcxgd2ljlexo5piw23/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqjmeysbrt2whttps://bsky.app/profile/ddbeck.com/post/3mplgr2qhwx27It's the first of the month, which is a great time to document something you haven't documented before with a README file https://github.com/ddbeck/readme-checklist01 Jul 2026 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:facfcgrcxgd2ljlexo5piw23/app.bsky.feed.post/3mplgr2qhwx27https://bsky.app/profile/ddbeck.com/post/3mp4dxksrj32gI finally added video of my talk "Stop chopping onions and extend Markdown without tears" to my site. It's my guided tour of a few little-used extension points in Markdown. https://ddbeck.com/fosdem2026/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=Social25 Jun 2026 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:facfcgrcxgd2ljlexo5piw23/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp4dxksrj32ghttps://bsky.app/profile/ddbeck.com/post/3mouskrhom324With Git, I sometimes check out a single file, such as a shell script, from another branch. I didn't know how to do this with Jujutsu, so I took notes on how, plus why jj's equivalent confuses me. https://ddbeck.com/notes/jj-copy-file-from-revision?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky22 Jun 2026 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:facfcgrcxgd2ljlexo5piw23/app.bsky.feed.post/3mouskrhom324https://bsky.app/profile/ddbeck.com/post/3mnzlecz5hk2rHad to reset the clock for "time since hearing a dick joke made on stage at a tech conference" which was standing at years 🙁11 Jun 2026 15:51 +0000at://did:plc:facfcgrcxgd2ljlexo5piw23/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnzlecz5hk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/ddbeck.com/post/3mnwmxpt7p32iI took some notes on @hilton.org.uk's prescriptions for solving the team tech blog problem and suggest one of my own https://ddbeck.com/notes/tech-blog-problem-solved?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky10 Jun 2026 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:facfcgrcxgd2ljlexo5piw23/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnwmxpt7p32ihttps://bsky.app/profile/ddbeck.com/post/3mnfaftz7ne2iI deal with PDFs more regularly than I prefer, but I don't mind too much because I have some go-to tools. A new note dusted off from my drafts folder https://ddbeck.com/notes/poppler-and-pandoc/03 Jun 2026 13:42 +0000at://did:plc:facfcgrcxgd2ljlexo5piw23/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnfaftz7ne2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/ddbeck.com/post/3mna5ydtwag2kIt's the first of the month and you know what that means: time to document something with a README file https://github.com/ddbeck/readme-checklist01 Jun 2026 13:15 +0000at://did:plc:facfcgrcxgd2ljlexo5piw23/app.bsky.feed.post/3mna5ydtwag2khttps://bsky.app/profile/ddbeck.com/post/3mmtggtc5il2fSerious open source docs work has a cost. I wrote down every way that I know of that gets docs authors and maintainers paid. https://ddbeck.com/where-does-the-money-come-from/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky27 May 2026 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:facfcgrcxgd2ljlexo5piw23/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmtggtc5il2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/ddbeck.com/post/3mmbt6fblbo2jI cleaned up some disused dotfiles (and worse, code to manage to said dotfiles) and ended up taking some notes on some software I really like: Stow. https://ddbeck.com/notes/stow-and-dotfiles?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky20 May 2026 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:facfcgrcxgd2ljlexo5piw23/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmbt6fblbo2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/ddbeck.com/post/3mm4sakciwi2fThe `jj` version control system generates branch names that leave something to be desired. I took notes on an alternative template. https://ddbeck.com/notes/jj-git-push-bookmark-template?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky18 May 2026 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:facfcgrcxgd2ljlexo5piw23/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm4sakciwi2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/ddbeck.com/post/3mkpjtydzw22sLast year, I wrote about waking up a sleeping computer remotely. I took some new notes on how I've made it much more convenient. https://ddbeck.com/notes/revisiting-remote-wake-on-lan/30 Apr 2026 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:facfcgrcxgd2ljlexo5piw23/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpjtydzw22shttps://bsky.app/profile/ddbeck.com/post/3mjwlvdw3he2iThe fish shell's `set_color` command taught me a little lesson about output streams, escape sequences, and things that aren't magic. Plus, I got a tiny change into the fish docs. https://ddbeck.com/notes/fish-set-color-stderr?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky20 Apr 2026 13:42 +0000at://did:plc:facfcgrcxgd2ljlexo5piw23/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwlvdw3he2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/ddbeck.com/post/3mjwlvdw3he2iThe fish shell's `set_color` command taught me a little lesson about output streams, escape sequences, and things that aren't magic. Plus, I got a tiny change into the fish docs. https://ddbeck.com/notes/fish-set-color-stderr?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky20 Apr 2026 13:42 +0000at://did:plc:facfcgrcxgd2ljlexo5piw23/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwlvdw3he2i