It’s a play on “recursive descent” the parsing technique
26.02.2026 05:46
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It’s a play on “recursive descent” the parsing technique
Recursive Ascent is the name of my new startup
Was doodling "recursion" ideas on my notepad, stumbled on the R and A emerging from the rotated forms, then couldn't stop until I had an '80s PBS TV style animation
It does some times feel like I’m swimming upstream for jj as models/harnesses are increasingly RL’d for Git. I still think there is a there there for jj and agents. I should write up more show-and-tell on it.
Mostly they are downstream of Git's model - files that fail to get staged, missing stashes, unclear workflow. For me its more about the strengths of jj and workspaces. To be fair, I see that eg Codex and other tooling are increasingly worktree-native, so maybe it's a less of a competitive advantage.
Wrote a bit about jjq. Continuing to build on top of jj for a lot of things
pauladamsmith.com/blog/2026/02...
Photo of a music stage bathed in blue stage lighting, a band of musicians performing in front of a silhouette of audience heads.
Cate Le Bon last night at Thalia Hall. She is so cool. They rocked
I think this is my first ever FOSS contribution in Rust? Continue to <3 jj
`jj absorb` is a great example of what Jujutsu's design enables www.pauladamsmith.com/blog/2025/08...
RADDLE • Mar 10
SHIP → HOLLOW [100%]
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RADDLE • Mar 07
TURN → LINK [100%]
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RADDLE • Mar 06
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TRAP → TURN
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Rank: Ready for the 🏋🏽♂️ Olympiad-dle (100%) raddle.quest
Announcing RADDLE, my new word transformation game.
raddle.quest
It’s a twist on conventional word ladders — instead of changing one letter at each step, you’re changing the entire word based on a clue. But it’s up to you to determine which clue to use.
If you play Wordle, Connections, etc., check out Raddle. I think it's fun and challenging. Sandy's very clever.
I love using jj instead of (or really on top of) git these days, but I struggled with the built-in diff editor, which seems to be pretty under-documented. So I made a quick cheatsheet reference of the commands, hopefully it is useful to others similarly stuck: paulsmith.github.io/jj-builtin-d...
This game has been so fun. Wildly entertaining
A TV screen showing an NBA basketball game between OKC (Oklahoma City Thunder) and CLE (Cleveland Cavaliers). The score is OKC 114, CLE 118 with 4:36 left in the 4th quarter. The game is being broadcast on ESPN. The TV appears to be mounted below some bookshelves filled with various books, and there's a partial view of what looks like a couch or furniture piece at the bottom of the image.
This game will determine which is the greatest city on earth: Oklahoma City, or Cleveland 💥
A paragraph of text discussing how overlapping windows mirroring stacked documents on a desk is not an ideal metaphor for computer interfaces. The text argues that partially hidden windows typically need to be brought to the top and made fully visible before use, and that the substantial implementation effort required outweighs the insignificant advantages of this design approach. It concludes by stating it's an example where a complication's benefit is incommensurate with its cost.
A sentence fragment that continues from a previous paragraph, stating that their solution is much simpler to implement while having no real disadvantages compared to overlapping windows: tiled viewers as shown in Figure 2.1.
A page showing Figure 2.1, titled "Oberon display with tiled viewers." The image contains a structured layout of the Oberon operating system interface, including a system diagram in the center showing module relationships (with components like System, Edit, Net, Backup, TextFrames, Printer, MenuViewer, and Oberon), surrounded by tiled viewers showing various system commands and file information. The diagram is structured hierarchically, with Oberon at the base connecting to Viewers, Texts, and Reals. The page also includes code snippets and system commands in separate tiled sections around the main diagram.
Wirth circa ‘86 already got there on window placement
Close-up of the back cover of a vinyl record featuring a compilation of soul Christmas songs. The tracklist is visible, listing artists like Little Johnny Taylor, Rance Allen Group, Mack Rice, Rufus Thomas, Albert King, Staple Singers, Isaac Hayes, The Temprees, and The Emotions.
Stax Records xmas comp, 1982
Photo of cover of textbook “Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler” by Niklaus Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht
Hanging with Saint Niklaus 🎅
Kīlauea erupting. Live view from Halemaʻumaʻu crater from the northwest rim of the caldera.
www.youtube.com/live/w0KulR_...
The season is the reason for the season
This was fun, nice work @xor.blue
A terminal screenshot showing a diff view of changes made to a Nix configuration file 'common/users/shared-user-config.nix'. The diff shows line numbers 43-53, with new lines in green and old lines in red. The change is configuring direnv with bash integration and nix-direnv support
A terminal screenshot showing direnv loading output. The user has changed directory to "Desktop/pushup/v0.3/". The output shows direnv loading an .envrc file, using flake, and loading a cached nix-direnv dev shell. There's a long list of exported environment variables including various Nix-related configuration settings, compiler flags, and build parameters. A red arrow points to the line "direnv: nix-direnv: Using cached dev shell".
Added a couple of lines to my home-manager config, and now I get instant loading of dev environments when I cd into them with direnv. (I was missing the nix-direnv integration, which caches the evaluation and the resulting environment.)
Nice - I just checked out Amperfy for iOS, looks solid. My next step is expose the Navidrome server over Tailscale. Have you done that or Wireguard or something similar?
A screenshot of a music streaming service dashboard showing recent listening activity for user "pauladamsmith". The interface displays a list of recently played songs with album art thumbnails, song titles, artists, track lengths, and timestamps. The layout includes a navigation sidebar on the left with options like Feed, Dashboard, and Explore. The main content area shows "New listens since you arrived" and "Recent listens" sections, featuring tracks from artists like Joe McPhee, Elvis Costello, Gillian Welch, and others. Each song entry includes options to like, add to playlist, and play the track.
Cleaned up my giant old MP3/FLAC collection (passed it through MusicBrainz Picard app), found a place for it on my home network, and served it up with Navidrome. Wired up to ListenBrainz - feels like the good ol' scrobble/last.fm days.
A black weight plate ornament reading "MERRY LIFTMAS" and "45 LB" hanging on a Christmas tree decorated with colorful lights. The tree lights create a festive backdrop of green, blue, red, and yellow illumination around the ornament.
I believe it’s "KO-hog" or "KWAW-hog."
Walrus Turtle Frog, people
