Learning notes 2026-W26

I missed publishing notes from the last two weeks. I didn’t do much reading during those weeks.

How to recover a dropped stash in Git?

Though I’m a long-time-novice Git user. At times, I do discard file changes after a git stash pop. I know, I should be doing git stash apply instead of git stash pop. Then safely clear the stash. Being an average human writing code, I do my fair share of mistakes.

Anyways, two answers from this Stack Overflow question are really helpful for recovering lost stashes.

1. If you recently did a drop or pop, you may be able to find the hash from the terminal. Like mentioned in the top voted answer, you can run git stash apply <hash> to recover the changes.
2. If you can’t find the hash, another answer has a script to list hashes of available stashes in the repo. One of the recent ones would be the one you are looking for.

Reminder: you can stitch together lots of little HTML pages with navigations for interactions

A good reminder by Jim on the possibilities with HTML, CSS, and a sprinkle of JavaScript.

Ideal failures

Your list of ideal failure modes isn’t real.

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