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Notes on git's error messages

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Fear makes you a worse programmer

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Yesterday morning, I asked on Twitter: Does anyone have good writing about fear + programming (and...
Yesterday morning, I asked on Twitter: Does anyone have good writing about fear + programming (and how being afraid to make important changes makes you a worse programmer?) and I feel like there’s this really important line between caution (a++ excellent) and fear (which holds you back from doing necessary work) A l...
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Some Git Poll Results

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A new thing I’ve been trying while writing this Git zine is doing a bunch of...
A new thing I’ve been trying while writing this Git zine is doing a bunch of polls on Mastodon to learn about: which git commands/workflows people use (like “do you use merge or rebase more?” or “do you put your current git branch in your shell prompt?”) what kinds of problems people run into with git (like “have yo...
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The "Current Branch" in Git

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Hello! I know I just wrote a blog post about HEAD in git, but I’ve been...
Hello! I know I just wrote a blog post about HEAD in git, but I’ve been thinking more about what the term “current branch” means in git and it’s a little weirder than I thought. four possible definitions for “current branch” It’s what’s in the file .git/HEAD. This is how the git glossary defines it. It’s what git st...
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How HEAD works in Git

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Popular Git Config Options

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Hello! I always wish that command line tools came with data about how popular their various...
Hello! I always wish that command line tools came with data about how popular their various options are, like: “basically nobody uses this one” “80% of people use this, probably take a look” “this one has 6 possible values but people only really use these 2 in practice” So I asked about people’s favourite git config...
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How is a binary executable organized? Let's explore it

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.git

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Do we think of Git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories?

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Some Notes on NixOS

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Get your work recognized: write a brag document

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2023: Year in Review

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