Hi I'm Jack Lot, aka. The Modern Coder. This website is a collection of things I create— videos, essays, software etc.

I make videos on YouTube, and am building LearnGit.io.

essays

  1. Reflecting on my 7 year career at Amazon
  2. I quit my job to teach Git. Here's how it's going so far
  3. AI as an abstraction layer
  4. Finding my pain line
  5. From teenage dreams to digital realities

all posts

career, essays, gear, git, guides, newsletters, projects, raspberry-pi, security, talks-publications, terminal, tutorials, videos, webdev

  1. A fun & interactive introduction to Git internals
  2. An introduction to bare repos
  3. Git worktree tips
  4. A friendly introduction to Git worktrees
  5. Git doesn’t need pull requests - so why do they exist?
  6. Feel confident navigating the open source world
  7. Essential Git commands
  8. Visualizing pull requests
  9. Passkeys vs Passwords
  10. Forking, and what it adds to a clone

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publications

  1. Reading News with Maps by Exploiting Spatial Synonyms