Tyler Cipriani

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Netbooks are dead, but the Chuwi Minibook X scratches the same itch. The Minibook X is a 10.5″ x86_64 sub-ultrabook with 16GB RAM, a 512GB NVMe drive, and only one majorly annyoing Linux quirk. I needed a knock-around l…

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We’ve all seen Git commit hashes—the hard-to-remember hexadecimal strings that refer to Git commits. But it’s rare to see Git commit hashes spark joy: $ git log --oneline deadbeef (HEAD -> main) Dead beef is beef. Live…

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GIT - the stupid content tracker – Linus Torvalds, Initial revision of “git”, the information manager from hell After years of code review with stacked diffs1, I’ve been using GitLab merge requests at work. Merge reques…

Humans do no operate on hexadecimal symbols effectively […] there are exceptions. – Dan Kaminsky When SSH added ASCII art fingerprints (AKA, randomart), the author credited a talk by Dan Kaminsky. As a refresher, random…

My desk as of 2024-04-30 Remote companies have to work harder at everything. The effort goes beyond “remote-friendly”—you need remote culture. But once you have a remote culture, it’s hard to imagine going back. After n…

2017 solar eclipse—obscuration 93.8% (view original) In 2017, I opted to skip the crowds and the drive and settle for a 94% solar eclipse. I fully regret that decision. Weather permitting, I’ll be photographing the full…

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XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5) I’ve never been able to trust ~/.bash_history. Regardless of my configuration, I was forever searching for that one gnarly jq filter that had somehow disappeared. Th…

The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe even experimental ones Junio C Hamano, git/contrib/README Git’s source repo includes a “contrib” directory containing tools that extend git. But these to…

Framework Laptop DIY 13 AMD with ethernet dongle and screwdriver The laptop industry is a tragedy. Meanwhile, Framework built something different—repairable, Linux-ready laptops that respect users. Framework is a rare c…

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Exploting a long-standing git bug for my own amusement. And I think there is one known race: the index mtime itself is not race-free. – Linus Torvalds, Re:git bugs, 2008 A well-known race condition skulks through git’s…

Days since last timezone issue: -1 (via @accousticmirror) It’s Daylight Confusion Week. So, my meetings with Europeans shift by an hour—either forward or backward, depending on who made the meeting. Yes, this is hard to…

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You should never have more than a day’s work sitting unintegrated in your local repository – Martin Fowler, Branching Patterns In interviews, I throw out a gimme: “Can you explain continuous integration?” Folks tend to…

THIS IS NOT A REAL FINISHED PRODUCT. – Erohead, birther of Beepy The SQFMI Beepy alongside my cat printer The Beepy is a handheld Linux console designed by artists and built for nerds. From the first announcement, Beepy…

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I doubt that it is a good practice to ship the public key used to sign things in the repository in the repository itself – Junio C Hamano, git@vger.kernel.org: expired key in junio-gpg-pub Git ships with the maintainer’…