Nate Cox

Enjoyable is so subjective.

I now write basically all of my projects in Rust because I find the language so enjoyable. I like it so much that it has ruined my desire to continue working on existing projects… because they aren’t written in Rust.

Now if only they could add “swipe to go back” to their Linux client. Only thing keeping me off of Vivaldi these days.

The cult of Stallman continues to baffle me. The man is venom in the veins of the free software community and people just adore him.

I love the ideals of the free software movement but RMS is so toxic that I won’t associate myself with it while he’s tolerated.

Prioritize Primal. It is a truly unique and awesome show.

Maybe it’s in the thread or something? I don’t know.

I think Musk is maybe the biggest tool of them all and I enjoy a chance to insult him as much as the next guy, but I’m confused about this one.

I remember learning about how to use this back in the day and what a game changer it was for my workflow.

Today I like to do all of the commits as I’m working. Maybe dozens or more as I chug along, marking off waypoints rather than logging actual changes. When I’m done a quick interactive rebase cleans up the history to meaningful commits quite nicely.

The fun part is that I will work with people sometimes who both swear that “rewriting history” is evil and should never be done, but also tell me how useful my commit logs are and want to know how I take such good notes as I go.

I’m a nix user and I’m disappointed by how apt this comparison is.

Apple has their own set of issues for sure, but I don’t think they’re comparable to the spyware advertising conglomerate that is Google.

I’m fighting the good fight by using Safari to browse and Kagi to search. I have effectively eliminated Google from my life and I could not be happier about it.

Signed, a former Google fan who got tired of being the product for their ever shittier services.

I wish I could upvote you twice; once for the picture and once for choosing to use “customization”.

Git has a bunch of hooks. https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks

Engineering manager here: I am very lucky to have my team, I need them more than they need me, and I think anyone saying otherwise is fooling themselves.

Cloudflare is my go to registrar today, nothing but good experiences so far.

30mph on a pedal bicycle is very very difficult to reach and maintain. Even on a road bike designed to go fast on pavement, breaking 20mph on a flat road requires you to be extremely fit and streamlined.

I don’t think this is in any way comparable to an ebike where anyone can jump on and break 20 with no issues.

Source: bicycle was my primary mode of transport for 5 years; rode about 20 miles a day, with an attached speedometer, on a fancy road bike.

I don’t agree. I work for a very large company with an ungodly number of repos and a huge CI build pipeline; today they have all been converted to “main”. It wasn’t that hard.

This is indeed the silliest debate.

I used the term master for years, never really thought about it. I think I assumed it was referring to a master key (from which other keys are copied), rather than anything to do with ownership of people.

Then some people felt offended by it because they interpreted it differently than I did.

So… I changed the word I used. Like, it was the easiest thing in the world to do. “Main” is fine too, rolls right off the tongue, and if it happens to make a group of people feel less discriminated against than that’s all the motivating I need.

I also changed my repos as I updated them. It was like two commands and maybe a couple of lines in a CI config file. Trivial, even for dozens of them.

Today I wonder what the big deal is. If it really is “just a word”, well… so is main. Both words. If the one we’re using isn’t actually important then why resist changing it?

Seems to me like active resistance is kind of an indicator that maybe it really was about the word all along.

I am disheartened but not surprised by the “obvious ethnicity based insult is not racist” comments here.

My commit bible: https://cbea.ms/git-commit/