Two Weeks In: Roundup
It’s been two weeks of leave so far! Here’s a roundup of what I’ve been up to.
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Hopefully-useful content regarding open source development, Git, bash, regex, vim, and other silly command line wizardry. Primarily exists to be linked to from Twitter.
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Fall Butternut Squash Pasta
On my very scientific Mastodon poll, a handful of people said they’d like to see food updates. So here’s a food update!
Deciding to Reknit the MHK Swatches
The Master Hand Knitting Level 1 application involves, among other things, 18 swatches demonstrating good execution of a handful of techniques. I knitted these 18 swatches back in 2022, when I was much more optimistic (blind?) about the quality of my knitting. Sure, I thought, it looks a little like this “rowing out” thing on the edges, but it’s not that bad and the evaluators won’t notice!
Restarting the Master Hand Knitter Level 1 Application
For more info about the Master Hand Knitter program, see the TKGA website.
Taking a Break
Tap tap. Is this thing on?
A Tour of Git’s Object Types
Naming is one of the hard problems in computer science, right? It’s hard for Git developers too. One of the more arcane concepts in Git - object reachability - becomes simpler to understand with a little bit of naming indirection.
How I Learned to Love the Email Patch Developer Workflow
Note: This post is adapted in part from my guide to contributing to the Git project, which you can read here. I owe my thanks to my reviewers there, including Junio C. Hamano, Johannes Schindelin, Jonathan Tan, Josh Steadmon, and Phil Hord.
Read-Writable Regular Expressions
Regex is great, right? It’s concise, it’s precise, and the process of developing an expression that works just right is a hell of a lot of fun. Until you submit a patch to your coworkers with your beautiful expression, and they leave you comments like,