LornaJane

Welcome! I’m Lorna: open source technology leader and developer experience engineer. I’m a striking combination of technical experience, communication skills, and a genuine love for enabling others to succeed. I’m a leader, an engineer, a writer, a user champion, an open source maintainer, and a public speaker. My passion is taking great technology, and making it a great experience for users.

On this site you’ll find my blog, links to things I’ve done in other places, and my contact details. I’m always happy to hear from others in the industry and you are welcome to reach out to me with requests for articles, podcasts, or speaking – I can’t do everything, but that doesn’t stop me trying!

From The Blog

04 Mar

2026

Selectively ignore lines in git diff

I have a things-as-code project that outputs mostly text-based formats, but a lot of them. To keep an eye on consistency, I rebuild all the outputs and dump them into a local git repository so I can very easily diff to spot any changes – which was fine until we added a build timestamp, so every file looks changed on every run! This post is about ignoring the matching line with git diff -I. Continue reading →

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28 Jan

2026

Git renames are not renames

I consider myself pretty git-confident, I’ve worked with it a lot, taught it, been a git consultant, run engineering and various things-as-code teams. This week I had a spectactular git problem where merging one branch into another produced changes that didn’t exist on either branch. Turns out, renaming directories in a monorepo with multiple almost-identical boilerplate documentation files comes with surprises… Continue reading →

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25 Jan

2026

Manage Diagrams in AsciiDoc on GitHub

I use a lot of asciidoc these days for work documentation (and I love it) and I’ve been so happy that GitHub renders it when you view a repository in the web browser, just like it does for Markdown and ReStructuredText. BUT what GitHub does not do is render the image types that asciidoc does so even though I’m working with asciidoc and PlantUML, and the asciidoc tools render those diagrams nicely in PDF and HTML output – GitHub’s rendering doesn’t. So here’s a quick overview of how I handle those repositories. Continue reading →

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Talks, Articles, Podcasts, and More

From The Blog

Selectively ignore lines in git diff

Git renames are not renames

Manage Diagrams in AsciiDoc on GitHub

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