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Hunting the Shmoo
Personal blog · ahal.ca/blogprogrammingproductivity
Hunting the Shmoo is a personal blog at ahal.ca about programming and productivity. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Jujutsu: A Haven for Mercurial Users at Mozilla”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as references on Mercurial workflows and history editing, Jujutsu's relation to Mercurial, and Mozilla's Python 3 migration. Comments cite the posts as sources rather than judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Screencasts and blog posts on workflow, productivity, tools, Mozilla and whatever else tickles my fancy.
Most-linked posts?
- Jujutsu: A Haven for Mercurial Users at Mozilla3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-11-12
- Python 3 at Mozilla2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-30
What Hacker News says?
It is a work in progress: https://ahal.ca/blog/2019/python-3-at-mozilla/
Comment linking /blog/2019/python-3-at-mozilla/
on “Sunsetting Python 2”Submitted Jujutsu: A Haven for Mercurial Users at Mozilla as a story · 9 points
HN discussionYeah. That sounds a bit right. But from what I read they were limited in what they could implement due to missing git features. For example phases. https://ahal.ca/blog/2024/jujutsu-mercurial-haven/ was a post on that. But, it looks like they are trying, and at least they imposed some sanity like in the base commit ID. I wonder if they have anything like hg grep --all, hg absorb and hg fa --deleted yet. They do have…
Comment linking /blog/2024/jujutsu-mercurial-haven/
on “Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-URI”Submitted Python 3 at Mozilla as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOh, if you’re an ex-hg guy, this makes this easier, then: jj is in many ways a renaissance for hg’s philosophy: https://ahal.ca/blog/2024/jujutsu-mercurial-haven/
Comment linking /blog/2024/jujutsu-mercurial-haven/
on “Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial”Please don't use mercurial queues. histedit, rebase and the recent changeset evolution extension allow you to do everything while having first class history and merging support. Also far easier to understand than git. Useful links (first 2 slightly Mozilla specific): http://ahal.ca/blog/2014/new-mercurial-workflow/ http://ahal.ca/blog/2015/new-mercurial-workflow-part-2/ http://evolution.experimentalworks.net/doc/
Comment linking /blog/2015/new-mercurial-workflow-part-2/
on “Pijul version control system”