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tex0on Gemini 4 Carbon

Show me the 10M internal, please.

tex0on Git at any scale

Fantastic write up, but I still have doubts. As the author states: Serving git at scale is hard. I can only concur.

I feel like the article is a bit light on the design of the WAL and maintenance operations, but maybe it's me.

Anyway, I'd love to have a friendly chat with the author.

tex0on Git at any scale

Exactly. I would love to see that design work, but it doesn't for any realistic workload.

tex0on How Claude Code works in large codebases

If the developer can have a local copy of the monorepo it's not a "large" codebase.

tex0on Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

The interesting selling point about this, if the claims are substantial, is that nobody will be able to produce secure software without access to one of these models. Good for them $$$ ^^

tex0on Fossil versus Git

Fossil has some really nice ideas (although I don't like the feature bloat), but when I tried to use it I ran into so many issues and/or bugs. With git on the other hand I can't remember ever hitting a bug in decades.

I don't really like git that much, but it works pretty well most of the time.

tex0on Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s

This is a cool tool, I like the idea. But the way `uc machine init` works under the hood is really scary. Lot's of `curl | bash` run as root.

While I would love to test this tool, this is not something I would run on any machine :/

tex0on CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution

Same here. Pretty amazing. Almost every game in my (large) Steam libarary runs out of the box. Performance is on par with Windows. This finally allowed me to ditch Windows.

And no, I don't bother with crap that needs a kernel level anti-cheat. Simply not for me.

tex0on Go is still not good

If you don't like Go, then just let go. I hope nobody forces you to use it.

Some critique is definitely valid, but some of it just sounds like they didn't take the time to grasp the language. It's trade offs all the way. For example there is a lot I like about Rust, but still no my favorite language.

tex0on Jujutsu for busy devs

https://opensource.google/projects

I think all of those are using git and many Gerrit as well.

tex0on Jujutsu for busy devs

Maybe they need perforce support instead :P

tex0on The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo

Gerrit can do some of that.

tex0on The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo

That depends on your VCS. Some systems don't even allow you to "clone" anything. And yes, some of them enforce all kinds of ACLs.

tex0on Convert Linux to Windows

That is pretty much what I'm doing with Steam, Proton and my Game Library. 99% the time it works just great.

tex0on Feds Link Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks

Probably zero. And strike the non-SWE part. gpg isn't really easy to use.

tex0on How Core Git Developers Configure Git

Maybe git is just too complicated for average users (myself included).

tex0on Code search is hard

The new GitHub CS is pretty great indeed. Still not on par with it's role model, but getting closer.

tex0on Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving (2016)

Thank you for reposting. I don't want to start bashing XZ, but I honestly wonder why it's been picked up so much despite the valid criticism.

As if the compression rate increase at medium levels were so significant over bzip2 or grip.

tex0on GitHub code search is generally available

Yes, it comes pretty close. Well done!

tex0on Sourcehut will blacklist the Go module mirror

Is the source code of the service behind proxy.golang.org actually open-source?

tex0on What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained

KeePass(X), Password Store/Gopass, pwSafe, ...

Plenty of good choices.

tex0on What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained

Why did people think that using a cloud based password manager (or for that matter: a closed source one) was ever a good idea?

tex0on Being Ridiculed for My Open Source Project (2013)

Same here. In fact I've built a very similar tool because sed/awk/grep/find didn't quite cut it and it did help a me lot to get sh* done.

tex0on Google search was giving errors when searching “how many emojis on iOS”

How do you know?

tex0on Git making me want to pull my hair out yet again

He's so right about this. git is terrible. I hope some day we see a successful successor.

tex0on Scaling Git’s garbage collection

That reminds me of Piper/CitC: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...

tex0on Git’s database internals I: packed object store

Packfiles give me PTSD. They are so notoriously hard to maintain on the large scale server side.

I really wish git wasn't using them.

tex0on A toolbox for a secure software supply chain

I disagree. All the examples you mention are part of the software supply chain.

To me it doesn't matter if code comes in through a vendor, a dependency or is written in house.

It's all well within the responsibility of the organization owning and deploying the artifacts.

tex0on This Program is Illegally Packaged in 14 Distributions

Welcome to dependency hell.

But then many packages are so trivial that they shouldn't even require a license.

Same goes for abandoned projects.

tex0on Xz format considered inadequate for long-term archiving (2016)

This serves as another example to me that governance and conflict resolution in the Debian project is really poor.

Maintainers are free to do whatever they want, even if it doesn't make any sense at all.