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@ddrake@mathstodon.xyz
2026-05-08 09:53:06

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…

@frankel@mastodon.top
2026-04-15 09:18:53

The #Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any #Code
piechowski.io/post/git-command

The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code
Five git commands that tell you where a codebase hurts before you open a single file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns.

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-03-29 16:37:54
Content warning: C program bug, help sought

Friends who speak C, help me with a bug that I just can't see.
Source is here:
git.journeyman.cc/simon/post-s
As you can see, <string.h> is included at line 13.
At…

Editor window (eclipse) showing the problematic file, and GCC's error messages, as described in the post.
@jaandrle@fosstodon.org
2026-03-25 15:17:14

I am working on my projects at my job and “suddenly”, I have just finished something different…
github.com/jaandrle/git-info
A Git status tool inspired by [GitButler](

screenshot of the terminal: ✓ At 16:06 by jaandrle in [dev/main|=] ~/Vzdálené/GitHub/facilitator-network-cell >_:git ╭┄┄ [unstaged changes] ┊ no changes ┊ ┊╭┄ [dev/main] ┊● 11e2237 :zap: :cop: Improves types (Jan Andrle · 3 hours ago) ┊● e578f03 :zap: Adds valibot (Jan Andrle · 6 days ago) ┊● e074fd1 :abc: Updates docs and changelog (todo) (#32) (Jan Andrle · 6 days ago) ┊● 09c74bb :zap: Adds Presentation Dashboard page (Jan Andrle · 4 weeks ago) ┊● c6e1ce9 :bug: :zap: Fixes…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-04-17 22:39:25

TIL: Just wasted 2 hours chasing a super weird ghost bug in my 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

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-04-18 10:37:57

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