Highlights

• I’m rebooting my blogging course from 2020.
• htmx is pretty good but not everything I wish it could be.
• I’m looking for a buyer for Is It Keto, my old keto website.

Rebooting Hit the Front Page

In 2020, I created a video course about blogging called “Hit the Front Page of Hacker News.” I was proud of the course material, and I heard positive feedback from students, but I felt like I never gave it the attention it deserved.

I recently read Julia Evans’ latest zine about git, and one of her tips was to configure your terminal shell prompt to show the git status.

Julia’s terminal prompt looks like this:

main is Julia’s current git branch. When she’s in the middle of a git operation like bisect or merge, the terminal changes to this:

It had never occurred to me to customize my shell prompt, but I immediately recognized the value.

No update this month

I’m skipping my normal retrospective this month, as I sold TinyPilot and am taking some time to figure out my next project.

Retrospectives will resume in July.

I’m teaching a small-group, live course about attracting readers to your blog through Hacker News. Sign up by Monday (June 24th) to reserve your slot.

Why take a class with me?

My blog receives 300k-500k unique readers per year. After Google, Hacker News is the primary way that new readers find my writing.

No update this month

I’m skipping my normal retrospective this month, as I sold TinyPilot and am taking some time to figure out my next project.

Retrospectives will hopefully resume in a month or two!