The Lost Art of Commit Messages

10.11.2024|#development#version control#commit messages#git

People scribbling "fix bug", "update code", or the ever descriptive "refactor" while pushing changes that could rival a novel in length. It's as if they think we're all mind readers or perhaps they assume their code is so flawless it needs no explanation.

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Looking to the Past, Seeing the Future: Discovering Plan 9

12.12.2023|#technology#operatingSystems#innovation

Plan 9 from Bell Labs is this really cool, somewhat under-the-radar operating system that started in the late '80s. Imagine a group of tech wizards at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson (same guy who co-created Unix), brainstorming and then bringing to life a system that's both familiar and wonderfully strange.

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