Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)(gist.github.com)

360 points by Eric_WVGG 2 years ago | 204 comments

A GitHub Gist reproducing Douglas Hofstadter's 1983 Scientific American introduction to Lisp, "Atoms and Lists," from Metamagical Themas.

1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor(gist.github.com)

1542 points by mmsc 2 years ago | 400 comments

A GitHub Gist write-up by a 15-year-old bug hunter describing a Zendesk bug affecting many Fortune 500 companies that earned over $50,000 in bounties.

SCM as a database for the code(gist.github.com)

68 points by gritzko 8 months ago | 77 comments

The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing(gist.github.com)

221 points by radeeyate 11 months ago | 153 comments

LMDB: The first version of Redis, written in Tcl (2009)(gist.github.com)

180 points by avinassh 3 years ago | 61 comments

Don't use Vim for the wrong reasons (2020)(gist.github.com)

23 points by asicsp 2 years ago | 35 comments

Git at any scale(cursor.com)

331 points by meetpateltech 2 months ago | 104 comments

Cursor research blog post by Vicent Martí about scaling Git to handle very large repositories.

Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo(blog.plover.com)

55 points by evakhoury 17 days ago | 13 comments

Blog post by Mark Dominus proposing a better way to record a Git repo's deployment and release history than creating thousands of tag refs.

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.

Beej's Guide to Git(beej.us)

894 points by mixto 1 year ago | 280 comments

Landing page for Beej's Guide to Git, a free online guide to the Git version control system offered in HTML and other downloadable formats.

I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs(spencer.wtf)

649 points by spencerldixon 8 months ago | 222 comments

A blog post sharing a shell one-liner for deleting merged git branches, found in CIA internal developer docs leaked in WikiLeaks' Vault7.

A Git story: Not so fun this time(blog.brachiosoft.com)

470 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 104 comments

Blog post recounting the origin story of Git, starting from Linux's scaling problems in 1998 and Linus Torvalds' path to creating it.