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Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 9h

I'm really enjoying how much Claude Code helps me overcome inertia around building tools and learning new things. I used it to build a Go CLI for my Git worktrees workflow and it made iterating and learning the ecosystem at the same time so easy.

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GitHub - captainsafia/grove: CLI tool for managing git worktree-based workflows

CLI tool for managing git worktree-based workflows - captainsafia/grove

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Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 1d

omg i forgot how good real housewives of potomac is and how beautiful these women are 🌸

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Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 2d

thank you kristoffer! I'm glad you enjoyed the discussion 🫶

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Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 4d

omg thank you this is such a wonderful compliment :)

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 4d

If you create a Codespace from a PR that was started by the GitHub Copilot agent, the clone of the git repo/branch that will be in the codespace will be a *shallow* clone which makes it difficult to rebase/merge against the branch.

You can fix this by running `git fetch --unshallow`.

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Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 5d

Thanks for sharing (and trying out the new stuff) — glad you found it useful.

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Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 5d

It’s a Jekyll blog hosted on GitHub Pages!

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Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 5d

Today’s blog post is a behind-the-scenes look around Aspire's publish and deploy commands: how they differ, where the tension lies (e.g. “ejecting” vs “auditing”), and how we might evolve them to be more composable, debuggable, and transparent.

blog.safia.rocks/2025/10/06/a...

#aspire @aspire.dev

Design flashpoint: aspire publish vs aspire deploy

Exploring the design decisions behind aspire publish and aspire deploy commands, and how they balance between ejecting from the Aspire ecosystem versus providing fine-grained deployment control.

blog.safia.rocks

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Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 8d

Found at the local whiskey bar.

Photo of a beach with dark sand and small ice chunks near the shoreline. White waves roll in from a blue ocean under a pale sky. Text on the image reads: ‘There’s nothing you can’t do. As long as it doesn’t have to be any good.’

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Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 8d

Wait — why would they through hands?!!

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Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 9d

Nice! Thanks for all your contributions 🫶🏽

By the way, Juno looks pretty neat. There’s an old project I’m trying to redeploy that it might be a good candidate for.

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Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 9d

I believe I succumbed to that darkness on May 15th, 2025 at 3:44pm 😆

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Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 9d

My deepest and sincerest respect to release engineers because I'm working on setting up a release pipeline for this side project and there are so many little details to think through.

I discovered goreleaser and I am really vibing with it though ❤️

goreleaser.com

GoReleaser

Release engineering, simplified.

goreleaser.com

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Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 9d

OK -- now I really wanna see yours! Doooo it!

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Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 9d

Saw someone made this cute little GitHub contribution graph on Reddit and I used it to visualziation the last 10 years of open source I've done 🥲

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Visualization of contribution graph for GitHub user captainsafia from 2015 to 2025

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Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 10d

As part of this, I took on the work to update the nteract site from Flow (yes, lol) to TypeScript.

I distinctly remember trying to do this 6 years ago and getting tired of the tedium.

I just threw Claude Code at it and it one-shotted the migration in a single prompt. Amazing!

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 11d

OK, so I literally haven't done anything on nteract/Jupyter in years and despite how terrifying it is to step back into a project you feel guilty about lowkey kind of abandoning, I'll literally get over those feelings just so I can start moving things off of Vercel.

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Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 11d

One of the reasons I've been blogging more lately is because my motivation around it has changed.

I want a journal of the things I spent time working on so that when I am old I can read back through it all and marvel at the adventures. :')

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Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 11d

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Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 11d

A lot of nteract's projects took a bet on next.js/zeit back in the day but there's nothing I'm more committed to than the stance that open source is more about people/philosophy than it is about code. So here we are.

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Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 11d

OK, so I literally haven't done anything on nteract/Jupyter in years and despite how terrifying it is to step back into a project you feel guilty about lowkey kind of abandoning, I'll literally get over those feelings just so I can start moving things off of Vercel.

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Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 12d

Ah nice! For the RDG scenario, I wanted to check that syntax trees of a certain shape still no-oped so dummies weren’t an option. They are good for testing that external edits don’t trigger the source generator though!

Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 12d

The entry point that the RDG tests use accepts a collection of "updated sources" that it reruns the compilation against: github.com/dotnet/aspne...

I haven't done something similar for the other generator test implementations, TBH. But it can be plugged in a similar way.

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Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 12d

@chris.sienkiewi.cz I think this was something that you were looking into?

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Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 12d

...solution and Verify worked well for this. Before I realized I could use Verify, RDG had its own snapshot testing functionality that was a bit brittle to maintain.

I think there are plans to make it easier to use the testing library for runtime verification so I'd lean on it in those cases.

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