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Scrolling around when claude is "typing" makes it jump to the top

It's kinda funny that an article complaining about blurry rendering, is written using one of the most illegible fonts I've ever seen.

It's the most representative sample size if you're interested in your own performance though. I really don't care if other people are more productive with AI, if I'm the outlier th…

There's a huge difference between endangering other people vs endangering only yourself.

Wait... Did you misunderstand this comment? Or are you saying grep caught up with ripgrep now?

I learned about the --first-parent flag of git blame recently. It allows git blame to work well in repos that use merge commits.

I was forced to use the dokuwiki, but I very much disliked editing stuff in the web interface. Having a filesystem interface to the wiki system allowed me to create and edit pages …

Quite some years ago I created a Python FUSE filesystem[1] to to interact with dokuwiki (a wiki system). It's built on hde llfuse[2]. But that required implementing a bunch of low …

I actually think the wall clock time that is used here is a more useful metric here. Using as few keystrokes is not necessarily most "efficient" in time if you have to think longer…

Except Apple doesn't take a 30% cut for every transaction in the PayPal app

The most effective way I've found to get other people to "write" good commit messages is by changing the "Default commit message" for squash merges on the GitHub repo to "Pull requ…

One of the authors of the patch here. Two reasons: 1. This config option approach was extremely easy to implement 2. Because making this auto.conf read-only would break many existi…

I wanted to clarify that I (Jelte, the author of the final patch) work at Microsoft. So, it's definitely not just one company seeing benefit in this feature. Arguably Microsoft is …

Luckily that's something that you control client side so you can simply be consistent about that yourself.

My personal favorite additions to my git config are using delta[1] as my pager for much more readable and syntax highlighted diffs. And adding the following alias, which means I no…

You can put this in your .gitconfig and do 'git checkout-default' to always checkout the default branch of the repo you're in, no matter what it's called: [alias] checkout-default …

Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft on Postgres related open source tools (Citus & PgBouncer mostly) Microsoft is heavily investing in Postgres and its ecosystem, so I wouldn't be extr…

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