rejschaap

Vibe coders are the new Curious Developers

I like singular, most pick plural

I like tabs, most pick spaces

I like mercurial, most pick git

But no one’s taking my vim!

Better formatting

  $ git l 
  * cbe9658 8 weeks ago rejschaap (HEAD -> add-ci-cd) Update deploy.yml 
  * 0d78a6e 8 weeks ago rejschaap Update deploy.yml 
  * e223056 8 weeks ago rejschaap Update deploy.yml 
  * 8e1e5ea 8 weeks ago rejschaap Update deploy.yml 
  * 459b8ea 8 weeks ago rejschaap Update deploy.yml 
  * a104e80 8 weeks ago rejschaap Update deploy.yml 
  * 0e11d40 8 weeks ago rejschaap Update deploy.yml 
  * 727c1d3 8 weeks ago rejschaap Create deploy.yml

You get some of this for free if you create branches and squash merge them when finished. Without needing to think much about commit message, just a few words per commit is enough. This is good enough for me and I don't need to waste any time thinking about it.

Example commits of something I worked on a few days back:

  $ git l feature/character-selection

  c54825f 3 days ago   Robert Schaap   (feature/character-selection) Simplify color picker, fetch current color
  d512569 3 days ago   Robert Schaap   Fix recolor for female, clean up files
  6d05ce4 3 days ago   Robert Schaap   Add color picker to change shirt color
  441180b 3 days ago   Robert Schaap   Show male in editor
  17045dc 3 days ago   Robert Schaap   Remove old character
  95772ff 3 days ago   Robert Schaap   Add characters

Then when I squash merged it I ended up with this commit message:

  $ git show HEAD~1

  commit be50e0d701d565cebdf4f29e0c9d8030a1a8faf7
  Author: Robert Schaap
  Date:   Mon Mar 24 21:29:20 2025 +0100

    Character selection (#14)

    * Add characters

    * Remove old character

    * Show male in editor

    * Add color picker to change shirt color

    * Fix recolor for female, clean up files

    * Simplify color picker, fetch current color

We've all been there:

$ git l * cbe9658 8 weeks ago rejschaap (HEAD -> add-ci-cd) Update deploy.yml * 0d78a6e 8 weeks ago rejschaap Update deploy.yml * e223056 8 weeks ago rejschaap Update deploy.yml * 8e1e5ea 8 weeks ago rejschaap Update deploy.yml * 459b8ea 8 weeks ago rejschaap Update deploy.yml * a104e80 8 weeks ago rejschaap Update deploy.yml * 0e11d40 8 weeks ago rejschaap Update deploy.yml * 727c1d3 8 weeks ago rejschaap Create deploy.yml

Brian Eno put it pretty well in 1996

"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them."

Yeah, it's just not your grandmother's pixel art anymore

When I read the title, in my mind I immediately completed it with "...and not worth the effort"

Happy to read that PS

Out of which box though? It works out of the box on WezTerm.

The funny part is that we decentralized version control with git and then centralized software development in GitHub

I would expect more permissive licenses in the future. GPL was instrumental in changing the world to an open source mindset. It fixed the problems with software that became obvious in the 90s. The world has evolved and the restriction just feel outdated now.

Picked up some bad habits from 4chan?

It would make more sense that "they" refers to Activision Blizzard. They do very little VR stuff compared to Microsoft.

You can't move it, but you do get paid. So it's worth something.