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wstone··on Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things
I totally agree with the sentiment behind this, so much so that I also made my own standard a while ago, https://commits-with-character.org/ an incredibly light addition to the Git Book guidelines, and also gives more priority to scope. It’s been working really well for me in my small projects.
wstone··on Taking away iPhone made daughter a better person
Woah! You were texting whilst driving?!
wstone··on Alexa will soon lose a popular shopping list feature
This is really sad news. Being able to quickly say “Alexa, add bread” and know that will appear in the bakery section of AnyList has been incredibly useful. I’m not sure I can train (or want) to say “Alexa tell AnyList to add bread to my grocery list”.
wstone··on A mechanical keyboard with programmable knobs and full color screen panel
I think they know what they’re doing there
wstone··on LineageOS is currently installed on 1.5M Android devices
And bring back the plastic back (albeit using recycled supermarket bags or whatever). The 5c was such a great phone.
wstone··on We will be shutting down neeva.com
Try Kagi instead. It’s a very nice search experience and and actually grants more control over results than Neeva did.
wstone··on Ink: React for interactive command-line apps
I love Ink. Made a game with it: https://www.npmjs.com/package/5dice
wstone··on Ask HN: What's your current favorite programming font?
Hack:

https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/

wstone··on How Microsoft reduced Windows 11 update size by 40%
…but there is in Wendows?
wstone··on Git undo: We can do better
Thank you. It seems silly but my first parse was "-c(heckout)" but that comes from not using "switch" yet; I need to rewire my brain from "checkout".