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Git Notes
the short of it is: they’re cool for appending notes from automated systems (like ticket or build systems) but not really for having interactive conversations with other developers (at least not yet)
Tyler Cipriani
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The future of large files in Git is Git
Large files bloat Git’s storage, slow down git clone , and wreak havoc on Git forges.
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Cool desktops don’t change
Working on my old ThinkPad x220 feels easy because I’ve used the same software for over a decade.
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Circadian lighting with Home Assistant: Like f.lux, but for your house
Artificial lighting is omnipresent in contemporary society with disruptive consequences for human sleep
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Chuwi Minibook X
The Minibook X is a 10.5″ x86_64 sub-ultrabook with 16GB RAM, a 512GB NVMe drive, and only one majorly annyoing Linux quirk.
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I've used all the notebooks
I jot, doodle, scribe, and scribble in several notebooks every day—it’s how I do my thinking.
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The unreasonable fight for municipal broadband
I love Longmont’s municipal broadband, but we had to fight Comcast every step of the way to get it.
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The beginner's guide to overcomplicating coffee
There’s a scene in AMC’s “ Breaking Bad ” where Gail Boetticher explains to Walter White how to make the perfect cup of coffee . And it all sounds so plausible—there’s a perfect coffee, and science will magic it for us.
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Monitoring my weather at home
Weather is often hyper-local. For example, trying to suss out the temperature this morning:
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GitHub Private Repos Considered Private-Ish
This week, we discovered that GitHub.com’s RSA SSH private key was briefly exposed in a public GitHub repository.
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Git files hidden in plain sight
I doubt that it is a good practice to ship the public key used to sign things in the repository in the repository itself
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Code review decision fatigue
Code review innocently asks a staggering question: “does this code look good to you?” It’s not even clear how to start to answer this question – which makes putting off code reviews easy.
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Meshtastic: A Review
The Meshtastic is my solarpunk dream—a cheap, encrypted, offgrid communicator. But the project is still in the alpha stages (and it shows).