Stacked PRs are the new GitHub implementation of an already-existing concept: stacked changes or stacked diffs. Stacked changes are a method for split a big change into independent, incremental pieces. The typical example is a new feature that requires refactoring an existing system. We d like the refactor to be reviewed by itself for correctness, and the new feature to build on top of if, but…
I talked with an engineer recently who told me he was single-handedly (or rather, Claude-handedly) paying down tech debt in his company s codebase. And, at the same time, implementing a bunch of tools in their CI to catch all the kinds of quality slop problems that vibe coding everything could bring with it. I am thinking that this is representative of switching to a new mode of thinking about…
APFS on macOS is case-insensitive by default. I guess this is done to keep traditions, since HFS+ (its predecessor) was case-insensitive by default too; and I actually think it is, in general, a good idea. Most persons, technical or not, would usually regard a document titled Financial results the same as Financial Results in the real world; so Apple translated that expectation to the computer…
I discovered a neat pattern: using join with the function arrow ((-)) as a Monad. When you join over functions, you get: This lets you pass the same argument twice: once to determine what to do, and another to actually do it. In , we have validators with the signature type Validator = input - Validation. Most of our validation helpers are written in a point-free, un-applied style, which works…
For Promise timeouts, I was overworrying about doing setTimeouts with an AbortController, and cleaning them up afterwards to avoid memory leaks: The gods of JS smiled in my favor this week when I found out about AbortSignal.timeout (thanks to ). It simplifies timeouts to a single call: