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

all posts

career, essays, gear, git, guides, newsletters, projects, raspberry-pi, security, 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. Git Fork: When Cloning Isn't Enough

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