Scott Chacon

Love the new website overhaul for the GitButler CLI. gitbutler.com/cli

@CountableNewt @BrandonWaselnuk “arbitrary” or “clearly correct“?

@BrandonWaselnuk I’ve been yelled at by enough product teams to always make sure I’m getting their arbitrary capitalization correct

The winning strategy to get anyone who’s ever worked at GitHub to expose themselves “Github” (even my iPhone tried to correct that)

@AnthropicAI it's a capital H in @github.

Does anyone else have the problem that the Gmail iOS app simply does not send reply email bodies?

@bcardarella Its pretty interesting to me. I love Rails more than anything, but now configuration is close to free but with the loss of Heroku, there is basically no simple deployment option. I choose Next.js even though I despise the framework, because LLMs are good at JS and Vercel is good.

This is what seizing the moment in technology looks like. Rails/DHH captures the emotion of the moment rather that focusing on things that engineers think other engineers care about. Some do, most don't. "How fast can I get to market" <-- the only metric that has ever mattered

@zeeg With great errors, comes great responsibility.

Sentry > Spiderman sorry i dont make the rules

@dhh You should visit Berlin, where all of this happens but also the car reeks of stale cigarette smoke.

Can't wait for Robotaxis to take over in NYC. I feel safer driving 200mph in the dark at Le Mans than with these yellow cab maniacs. All the car fault lights are on, dude putting in address on personal phone while going 60 with no eyes on the road. Yikes.

`npx drizzle-kit push` is pretty cool.

@leereilly omg

@chacon What's stopping you from Minecrafting like this? github.com/leereilly/hubo…

Are you even a tech parent if you haven't implemented a full adder in Redstone logic gates in the Realm that you play in with your kids every week?

@tmm1 God I loved it when this was a secret, too. Just hit ‘t’. Now my secret key is “y” for the canonical URL of a file.

Fifteen years ago this month github.blog/news-insights/…

Fun fact: I joined GitHub just to ship this feature. I built File Finder in my spare time cuz I wanted it. At the time I was a contractor, working on GH backend performance. @defunkt told me I wasn't allowed to ship features to the website unless I was a full-time employee.

Not everyone knows that there's a JFK style oil Octocat portrait at @github HQ, but there is. It's almost certainly my favorite painting I've ever commissioned.

⋈❤️🐧 You can now install the `but` CLI on Linux!

“That guy fuchs!”

@lufthansa Does anything on your website work?

@chacon I'm sorry to hear about the flight delay, Scott. In case you need assistance with rebooking, feel free to send us a DM with your booking code and complete name so we can check for you. /Lizz twitter.com/messages/compo…

@lufthansa you are literally the worst airline in the world.

Well, if I'm connected on a NordVPN USA hop, I get that screen. If not, I get this one which never resolves. Which wouldn't be a problem if you didn't just delay my BER->FRA flight for an hour which will make me miss my LAX connection. Generally, you can just suck less at everything.

@chacon I'm sorry to hear that, Scott. How may we assist you? /Lizz

I don't understand why airlines don't invest more in digital infrastructure. Like, buy one less plane and have one fewer route and make every human customer interaction not suck.

@RBilgil @mitchellh @gitbutler @conductor_build There is a sparkle button in the top bar that immediately focuses the prompt. it will name the branch once it sees what its doing

I've been using it in that way and it does work pretty well, but it feels "branch first" rather than agent first. I kinda want to launch straight into a conversation and worry about the branch name, commits etc. at the end. Is there any way to do that? e.g. I click "New branch" and have to enter a branch name and make this choice each time, and again would much rather the agent abstracted that away to an extent

If you're a code forge competing with GitHub and you look anything like GitHub then you've already lost. GitHub was the best solution for 2010. It is hanging on by a thread in 2026 (but its mostly down nowadays). The needs of today are so different that the form factor doesn't work anymore.

@RBilgil @mitchellh @gitbutler @conductor_build The GUI does exactly this. Click the sparkle to attach a Claude instance to each branch. Even in parallel in one workdir.

Right now the UI feels like I'm still using git + extra concepts and branch admin on top I was hoping it would be more conversation driven & branches are just in the background. A bit like @conductor_build or Codex, but each conversation on the left sidebar is a virtual branch instead of a worktree (& maybe stacked branches are sub conversations or something). I realise the agent can sort of manage branches with the claude code hooks but then I have to live in the terminal again and the issue is managing lots of agents in the terminal is what I'm trying to avoid!

@RBilgil @mitchellh @gitbutler We're working hard at it. Would love to hear any thoughts of what you would like to see.

@mitchellh I started using @gitbutler yesterday (also by a GitHub co-founder). Far from perfect but has glimpses of what I want to see as an evolution of git