I've started working on Flirt, which stands for "Fabulous, Legendary, Incremental Review Tool". Firstly, what is it and why might you be interested in it?

• It avoids the need to review the same code multiple times when the code author amends or rebases their commits. This is relevant for people who value good commit history and see it as something to be iterated on during code review.

• It's agnostic with respect to the code sharing / code review platform. That means: You can jump between open-source projects using GitHub, a mailing list etc. and your code review experience stays consistent.

• It's a local-first tool, so it integrates seamlessly with your other tools. Using your editor to read, test and comment on code you review is a breeze.

If any of those points tickle your neurons, keep reading!

I recently got into Linux kernel development by rewriting a driver from C to Rust. To support this driver, I needed to add Rust abstractions for kernel APIs written in C. Some of this work is making its way upstream and now seems like a good time to write about that experience.

Because I was a noob when I started (and mostly still am), this post should be pretty approachable for people who don't have any kernel development experience.

Spoiler alert: Writing the code was the easy part!

Have you ever wanted to show off your beautiful terminal output in a markdown file? Simply copying the text into a raw block will result in bland, colorless text. Including a screenshot on the other hand is bloated and hard to maintain, in case the content changes. I recently found a nice solution, so let me tell you about it!

Here's a sneak-peak of the end result:

.rw-r--r--@ 3 remo 28 Feb 00:29 .gitignore
drwxr-xr-x@ - remo  8 Mar 22:51 repo
drwxr-xr-x@ - remo  8 Mar 23:12 working_copy

I'll use the above output of eza for demonstration purposes as we progress. Below you can see the output of jj in my current repo.

@  kqlsx remo (no description set)
○  uxkrx remo improve recipe for new blog posts
○  qwmqx remo main* add color theme for aha-generated blocks
│ •  qwmqx hidden remo main@origin add color theme for aha-generated blocks
├─╯
•  lumlx remo add just recipe for new blog posts
│
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You'll notice that this is just HTML, you can even copy the text. The colors are easily stylable with CSS, which we'll get into later.