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The code is the present truth, the commit messages can inform you about how it got turned into this truth. Interestingly, I recently wrote a short article about this: https://agate…

I wonder if the spare fiber connections could be use to mesh houses together, in a kind-of decentralized way?

I disagree with this: commit messages should explain the Why. For the What, I can read the diff. Sadly, many commit messages are about the What.

I guess it does not help that I dislike conventional commits :)

Would be curious to know if it works better than writing the Why as human-friendly paragraphs in the body of the commit message.

Most LLM articles depress me. At least this one made me smile, even if it's more about turning a dog into a random generator and generating games from random input.

Another one: depending on the language, 0 is either singular or plural. In French it's singular and it's always fun to see the denial in the eyes of my French colleagues when I tel…

> I have a very long regular expression (email validation of course) that doesn't fit on one line but no solutions I have found properly break the lines on page overflow. Have you …

Looks handy!

I loved my HP 48G when I was in school (even if it was much slower than the Ti 81 it replaced when it came to graphing). I regret throwing it away because of the nostalgia, but I d…

Sounds like an character from the Asterix comic book :)

Shameless plug: I wrote a tiny script to install Firefox from their tar.gz, without requiring root access: https://github.com/agateau/tmfi .

I would find it easier to read with more sensible, non-abreviated variable names.

A little known fact about executables on Windows is that while it's not possible to remove a running executable, it's possible to rename it. I use this in Clyde [1]: on Windows, wh…

They should draw the complete d-pad and highlight the button to press instead.

Mozilla provides prebuilt versions of Firefox for macOS, Windows and Linux. Unfortunately, the Linux version is just a tarball, so it does not create a menu entry or install itself…

I'd rather not. Never rode one, but I heard bullets are really impractical vehicles. My bike seems much more comfortable.

I used to take the subway in Paris. Now I ride a bike, carefully. I don't ignore traffic lights. And even riding this way I am always surprised that I'm faster than the subway. No …