i386 Assembly Language trick for storing data in .text(ratfactor.com)

125 points by ingve 3 years ago | 77 comments

Small Programs and Languages(ratfactor.com)

101 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 38 comments

Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" and LLMs replacing human programmers(ratfactor.com)

77 points by bertman 1 year ago | 101 comments

Implementing a Forth(ratfactor.com)

109 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 41 comments

Back dating Git commits based on file modification dates(til.simonwillison.net)

60 points by nailer 2 years ago | 26 comments

A quick look at OS/2's builtin virtualization(uninformativ.de)

133 points by zdw 1 year ago | 48 comments

How I configure my Git identities(benji.dog)

362 points by 8organicbits 1 year ago | 72 comments

A personal blog post explaining how the author uses Git's includeIf directive to manage separate Git identities and signing keys per directory.

Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0(lwn.net)

172 points by chmaynard 1 month ago | 94 comments

LWN article by Jonathan Corbet previewing the Git 2.56 release and the upcoming changes expected in Git 3.0.

My favourite Git commit (2019)(dhwthompson.com)

628 points by karagenit 2 years ago | 359 comments

A 2019 blog post by David Thompson showcasing a detailed GOV.UK Git commit message as an example of how commit messages document a codebase.

The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)(michaelheap.com)

151 points by ibobev 1 month ago | 88 comments

A 2022 blog post by Michael Heap arguing that using the GitHub wiki for project documentation is an anti-pattern compared to a docs folder in the repo.

.gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git(nelson.cloud)

553 points by FergusArgyll 4 months ago | 167 comments

A short blog post explaining three ways to ignore files in Git: .gitignore, .git/info/exclude, and the global ~/.config/git/ignore file.

Why GitHub won(blog.gitbutler.com)

582 points by hardwaregeek 2 years ago | 453 comments

Blog post by GitHub cofounder Scott Chacon explaining how GitHub became the dominant code hosting platform.