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willhbr

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    Comment #47777482

    Yep they automatically rebase. If that creates conflicts it's marked on the child commit and you can swap over and resolve it any time.

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    Comment #47274739

    That's fair feedback, thanks I focussed on how it works since that's what I set out to understand myself after seeing effects mentioned a few times

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    Comment #46842337

    My experience is that it is very frustrating. Apple's documentation makes no mention of what works on Linux and its limitations, so you just have to guess or work it out with trial…

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    Comment #46664887

    I picked the window chrome from Safari or Finder for each version, as similar as I could get to the highlighted area in the screenshot. My intent was to capture the shade of the no…

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    Comment #46663307

    Yep the first OS I (the author) used was the delightful beige of Windows 98

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    Comment #45361156

    I use it over docker because it has a better license, more easily installed with system package managers (installing docker is a pain, IIRC), is rootless by default, and has a pret…

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    Comment #43865919

    https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/04/Web-is-Broken-Botnet-Part-...

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    Comment #43520260

    You could definitely implement an LLVM backend that targets tmux, it just seems like a lot of work

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    Comment #42663949

    If you need a format that can transport byte arrays unmodified (image data, etc), msgpack (or protos or whatever) is much better than JSON since you don't have to base64 encode or …

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    Comment #39739872

    I actually wrote some thoughts about this a few months ago [0]. tmux actually does a really good job in this regard, the config language is fairly simple, and if you want to do mor…

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    Comment #39111425

    I actually wrote about my thoughts on the tradeoffs between purely-config and purely-code: https://willhbr.net/2024/01/18/the-code-config-continuum/