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Julia Evans

@julia-evans · 2 positions · 2 changes of mind

Writes jvns.ca, a blog explaining networking, debugging and Linux internals in plain language and comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.

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  1. SQLite is a fine production database for a small site, but running it well is more complicated than the "SQLite in production is totally fine" blog posts make it sound.

    I read a bunch of blog posts about how it is totally fine to use SQLite in production for a small site and I think it is totally fine, but what I did not fully appreciate is that SQLite is still a database, databases are complicated, and I do not know a lot about operating databases.

    Learning a few things about running SQLitejvns.ca

    SQLite

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  3. When two expert users argue over whether documentation is clear, that debate is unproductive — the way to actually find unclear documentation is to test it on real readers, not to have experts argue about wording.

    I don’t think this is very productive (expert users of a piece of software are notoriously bad at being able to tell if an explanation will be clear to non-experts), so I needed to find a way to identify problems with the man pages that was a little more evidence-based.

    A data model for Git (and other docs updates)jvns.ca

    documentation