CEO of @gitbutler, cofounder of @SCNE_io, previously cofounder of @github.
Joined December 2006
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Feb 6
Love the new website overhaul for the GitButler CLI.
gitbutler.com/cli
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Jun 12
Completely Claude'd and probably interestingly broken, but I spiked a Jujutsu PR that replaces it's dependency on forking out to git for networking operations with the all-Rust grit-lib.
github.com/jj-vcs/jj/pull/96…
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Jun 12
We're getting more and more amazing companies interested in sponsoring and attending Git Merge this year.
It feels like a renaissance in this space that I haven't seen in a decade.
If you have something cool to talk about in the Git world, put in your talk via our CFP, I would love to hear about it.
git-merge.com/
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Jun 9
You think rewriting Bun in Rust with agents is fun? How about rewriting Git into a memory-safe Rust library?
A few weeks and 45B tokens in, the new Grit project is passing 99.3% of the entire 42k test Git testing suite.
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Jun 8
I know what you’re thinking:
“Does Germany have penis chilies“?
Thankfully the answer is yes. And they are “ideally suited for pickling“…
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Scott Chacon retweeted
Jun 8
just realised that we had ZERO docs on the GB tui - and it is a pretty neat tui if I may brag.
it has a bunch of tricks that the desktop app doesn’t
so here’s the first batch of GitButler TUI docs - docs.gitbutler.com/gitbutler…
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May 22
Um, my agent started writing perl scripts to solve problems. All of a sudden I trust it's judgement less.
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May 21
Asked ChatGPT to create a 90s country music album cover for me as a joke, but now that I see it I'm thinking I really should probably record this and go on tour.
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May 18
The @gitbutler windows build is unfortunately broken now due to @digicert revoking our code signing cert.
As a fun game, see if you can tell which of the 40 emails I've gotten in the last few months are webinar spam versus the single one that tells me they will cripple us?
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May 18
lol, speaking of which, what kind of an insane hustle is this DUNS bullshit? 7 business days to update a phone number in what must presumably be a SQL database? What is the logic in how Windows thinks it provides security for signed executables this way?
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Scott Chacon retweeted
May 15
MachinenVM works on macOS (HVF) and Linux (KVM), and is written in Zig, with a TypeScript API and a CLI.
It boots a debian machine in a few 100ms. I think it's at 200ms right now.
You can control the entire machine via TypeScript.
You can snapshot a machine on macOS, and restore it on Linux, and vice-versa.
You can do live mounts from host-to-guest, or static mounts that produce a .img file, you can share ports... this is your microvm
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May 14
Love that this thing I helped start in 2013 is still going strong. Now I also get to help with JJ Con too!
Can't wait to see everyone again and talk git/jj over some beers in Lisbon.
May 14
Git Merge is coming back to Europe this September, hosted by GitButler and @github! Join us in Lisbon to nerd out about all things Git (and Jujutsu)!
blog.gitbutler.com/git-merge…
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May 11
Published a fun open source project this weekend: Scott’s Own Editor.
It’s a pure Rust TUI editor you can use in a project that wants to get text from a user. The call will check $EDITOR, git config, etc and try to launch that, but fallback to a simple TUI thats easy to exit.
github.com/schacon/soe
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May 10
Crazy how much development is changing. Kid was sick today, so again spent all day on the couch. With my one good arm, I wrote a bunch of features for my personal project. Literally a single thumb did more work today than i’ve done in months sometimes in the past.
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May 10
also pretty interesting how i took a personal project i abandoned due to lack of time 15 years ago am and now can have an agent modernise it in a way that would have been impossible a decade ago
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May 2
The big problem with everything legal I’ve ever done is MS Word and redlines. Legal needs a github - markdown, diffable, mergeable, etc.
I’m sure everything changes with AI, but if legal collaboration is still emailing fucking docx files around, I tell you thats not the answer.
Apr 30
Today we’re introducing a new Legal Agent in @Microsoft Word, built to support the precision and rigor legal work demands. Every clause matters. Every redline tells a story. That’s why this agent was built to follow the structured workflows lawyers use while keeping them fully in control.
Early in my career, I asked for a computer on my desk because I believed technology could change how lawyers work. It did. Today, I believe this next generation of tools will do the same, grounded in trust and responsible use.
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May 1
lol, i did an interview with the amazing @BornsteinMatt of @a16z around git and the @gitbutler funding and a bunch of stuff, but I’m fascinated by this AI headshot of me in the title card.
I think I should use this for everything now, oder?
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