@b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy
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@b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gyafter reading one of the previous threads I bought the author’s book and it was a super interesting way to learn about solar power
@b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy@flyingsquirrel thanks, this is great, I strongly believe people should mostly do what they feel is best for their situation and not yell “skill issue” at each other :)
@b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy@haskman thanks this is helpful!
@b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gydumb git question: in a merge-based workflow, if you’re working on a branch, is there any reasonable way to integrate new changes from `main` back into your branch without using `git rebase`? I have this belief that there are people who only use merge commits and not rebase but I don’t […]
@b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy@kev I think it’s super hard and by default Git just doesn’t give you enough context. In this merge conflicts guide I’m writing one of my main goals is to give people a list of strategies to get more context
@b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gythis week I learned that during a merge conflict, you can get a list of all commits involved in the conflict that touched a file with: $ git log --merge FILENAME Seems useful if there are a lot of commits being merged (like in a big rebase) but only a couple of them touched that file
@b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gyThinking this morning about how much of teaching is just taking the time to listen. Hearing what someone’s actual computer problem is and then addressing it is so much harder than just telling them what I think is interesting or cool. And sometimes I don’t know the answer to their actual […]
@b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy@llewelly immediately making this my password
@b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy@bagder yeah, that makes sense and it also makes it hard to explain to a newcomer how to understand the SYNOPSIS section. It’s a weird situation.
@b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gyhas anyone written a man page SYNOPSIS parser that somehow (?? I have no idea what I mean by this) helps folks understand what they mean?
I was talking to a friend the other day who said they were having a hard time understanding the rules of the SYNOPSIS […]
![The ssh SYNOPSIS:
ssh [-46AaCfGgKkMNnqsTtVvXxYy] [-B bind_interface] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec] [-D [bind_address:]port] [-E log_file]
[-e escape_char] [-F configfile] [-I pkcs11] [-i identity_file] [-J destination] [-L address] [-l login_name] [-m mac_spec]
[-O ctl_cmd] [-o option] [-P tag] [-p port] [-R address] [-S ctl_path] [-W host:port] [-w local_tun[:remote_tun]] destination
[command [argument ...]]
ssh [-Q query_option]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:yv3yog6owpooh5eli4sstrb6/bafkreih3rn3prjthbyf4l4zxdvc4fslrlt666rkeuf63chca4ykwzdzo2e@png)
@b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gyRE: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/117374213919135553
finally signed up for a paid subscription to support Molly White’s cryptocurrency reporting
loved her 2024 talk on the how building things on the web is magic too https://xoxofest.com/2024/videos/molly-white/
@b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gyone of the many good things about asking people questions instead of LLMs is that today i had a question about a project so i went to the discord to ask and the person said “oh no the software doesn’t do that but maybe we could change it so that it could” (obviously asking people doesn’t always […]
@b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy@aredridel i’m much more worried about the industry than myself personally but i’m not a fan of the situation
@b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy@aredridel i really don’t know if or how all this is going to affect wizard zines so i’m trying to be optimistic about dev education but it seems rough.
@b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gyI’m working on a list of questions you might want to ask about the Git workflow when joining a new team
https://gist.github.com/jvns/600e510958c4b9444b93bec84fd1a5f3
Would love ideas for other questions that would be useful to know the answer to!
@b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gyone thing about making a Django site is that dealing with these residential proxy scrapers is tough. It’s definitely easier to handle with a Go server that’s faster or a static site. The site doesn’t even have anything useful to scrape! I don’t really want to use Anubis since it’s a bit […]
@b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gyIs there a QR code generator that 1. is a website 2. is free, no account needed 3. is not secretly also a link shortener (no “dynamic QR codes”) 4. does not look like a scam 5. does not include extra branding (the way the Chrome one does) a friend just asked me this and I really could not find […]
@b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gyreplacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/09/27/replacing-the-old-battery-on-rechargeable-bike-lights/
@b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gyperiodic reminder that Wizard Zines has an educational use policy if you want to use them in your university courses! https://wizardzines.com/education/
@b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gyi have gotten a lot of people on here yelling at me for using google forms and 0 people telling me that they want to participate but that they can't (or won't) use google forms if you want to participate but google forms is a barrier I'm open to figuring something out (2/?)