Tootfinder

I've been reading a bunch of academic philosophy papers (I'm thinking about both the relationship between education/learning and games, and ethics for software and design) and I've realized that one of the basic moves in philosophy is basically a version control bisect.
A VCS bisect -- "git bisect" and its ilk -- starts with two commits, one with a bug or behavior, another without, and works out which commit between those introduced the bug.
In philosophy, o…

The #Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any #Code
https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-…

Well,. the good news this morning is that i found a stupid bug in `cdr` which, once you've seen it, you can't unsee, so the seventh #PostScarcitySoftware #Lisp prototype is now completing initialisation and entering the REPL.
The bad news is that there's an unterminating recu…

Hot damn! When you see an obvious, stupid bug you created, you can't unsee it! · 02a4bc3e28
post-scarcity - Prototype work towards building a post-scarcity software system

TIL: Just wasted 2 hours chasing a super weird ghost bug in my https://thi.ng/monopub release tool, which would suddenly silently quit, even though it's been working without any problems for years...
Turns out the issue was actually (mostly) in Git (`git log`), which now appends a warning I've never hear…

thi.ng/monopub