Julia Evans

Julia Evans

Technology

I’m a software developer. I live in Montreal. I sometimes give talks. Most of my income comes from my programming zines business Wizard Zines. I have one main opinion about programming, which is that deeply understanding the underlying systems you use (the browser, the kernel, the operating system, the network layers, your database, HTTP, whatever you’re running on top of) is essential if you want to do technically innovative work and be able to solve hard problems.

https://jvns.ca/

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• Examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages 2026-03-09 05:00pm
• Notes on clarifying man pages 2026-02-17 04:00pm
• Some notes on starting to use Django 2026-01-26 04:00pm
• A data model for Git (and other docs updates) 2026-01-07 04:00pm
• Notes on switching to Helix from vim 2025-10-09 05:00pm
• New zine: The Secret Rules of the Terminal 2025-06-25 05:00pm
• Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers) 2025-06-09 05:00pm
• Standards for ANSI escape codes 2025-03-06 04:00pm
• How to add a directory to your PATH 2025-02-13 04:27am
• Some terminal frustrations 2025-02-05 08:57am
• What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup? 2025-01-11 01:46am
• "Rules" that terminal programs follow 2024-12-12 01:28am
• Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering 2024-11-29 12:23am
• Importing a frontend Javascript library without a build system 2024-11-18 01:35am
• New microblog with TILs 2024-11-09 01:24am
• ASCII control characters in my terminal 2024-10-31 01:00am
• Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS 2024-10-27 12:47am
• Some notes on upgrading Hugo 2024-10-07 02:19am
• Terminal colours are tricky 2024-10-01 03:01am
• Some Go web dev notes 2024-09-27 04:16am
• Reasons I still love the fish shell 2024-09-12 08:09am