agateau
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Comment · 7 months ago
The code is the present truth, the commit messages can inform you about how it got turned into this truth. Interestingly, I recently wrote a short article about this: https://agateau.com/2026/on-commit-messages/
Comment · 7 months ago
I wonder if the spare fiber connections could be use to mesh houses together, in a kind-of decentralized way?
Comment · 8 months ago
I disagree with this: commit messages should explain the Why. For the What, I can read the diff. Sadly, many commit messages are about the What.
Comment · 8 months ago
I guess it does not help that I dislike conventional commits :)
Comment · 8 months ago
Would be curious to know if it works better than writing the Why as human-friendly paragraphs in the body of the commit message.
Comment · 8 months ago
Most LLM articles depress me. At least this one made me smile, even if it's more about turning a dog into a random generator and generating games from random input.
Comment · 1 year ago
Another one: depending on the language, 0 is either singular or plural. In French it's singular and it's always fun to see the denial in the eyes of my French colleagues when I tell them that 0 is plural in English.
Comment · 1 year ago
> I have a very long regular expression (email validation of course) that doesn't fit on one line but no solutions I have found properly break the lines on page overflow.
Have you considered manually splitting the regular expression into multiple lines in the source document, using something like the `VERBOSE` mode from Python re module [1]?
[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html#using-re-verbose
Comment · 2 years ago
Looks handy!
Comment · 2 years ago
I loved my HP 48G when I was in school (even if it was much slower than the Ti 81 it replaced when it came to graphing). I regret throwing it away because of the nostalgia, but I don't feel a need for using it these days.
As such I am genuinely curious about what rewards you get from using an engineering calculator in your work. That's an honest question: I would really like to have an excuse to get my hands on a 48G again!
Comment · 2 years ago
Sounds like an character from the Asterix comic book :)