@b0rk I noticed the print discount didn't work on Linux Toolbox. Is that an oversight or am I kvetching?

@b0rk I ordered a couple! Thank you!

@b0rk these are excellent, i had to get them all! :flan_dalf:

@b0rk "confusing git" is redundant

@b0rk Another great article, thanks for writing and sharing.

With checkout the '--' can be used between a branch and a file on that branch and it will copy that file from that branch to the current one. Kind of like cherry-picking files rather than whole commits.

git checkout -b new_feature # Create and checkout a new branch
git checkout old_feature_branch -- path/to/file/in/old_feature_branch

#git

@b0rk This is very helpful for git newcomers. The one that always terrifies me is getting "yours/theirs" wrong.

@b0rk I'd only say that for me, I only push to main for something like my personal site and minor changes. Otherwise I use branches even on tiny teams or if working on a feature that is more than a minor change.

@b0rk slight variation on your big team... which would be similar to most open source on gitlab\hub = fork with feature branch

For a different angle, the Git Book also talks about some of these internals in its chapter on Git Objects.

I recently leveraged that to manually update permissions in a Gerrit setup, which stores its user database in a unusual Git repository.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects

@b0rk :6th senses: “I see databases.”

@b0rk This is a thorough explanation of how git works! It's nice to learn a few things too.

@b0rk Janitor. I always enjoyed having someone who likes to do boring repository / code maintenance to relax. Makes everything neater, and makes it easier for us ADHD devs who would burn out on it.

@b0rk I'm a blend of Loud Noob, Documentarian, and Read The Entire Internet.

Don't let me near code, tho 🤣

@b0rk how about the Test Writer?

The one that writer clear tests that illustrate how things are supposed to work (as opposed to how they are working)

@b0rk https://spderosso.github.io/onward13.pdf

@b0rk tbh I think a significant amount of it is their incredibly unique-term-infested manpages. Learning git via normal means is a ridiculously large investment before you get any benefit.

https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/

@b0rk I dont find it too bad, but I do find it inconsistent; e.g. git tag and git branch both have -d for delete, but for git remote you have to do 'git remote remove' Similarly git branch -m to rename vs git remote rename. git push onto non-default branches also confuses the hell out of me.

@b0rk i had a unit on unix system administration where each week we got a slightly broken VM, one per student, we had to fix. every week was slightly harder culminating with a totally broken PAM so you couldn't easily log in

we couldn't break anything, it was already broken! and if we broke it too much prof would just re-image the VM. so no fear!

@b0rk tested regular backups.

@b0rk most starters like things like #tmux - #bash-insulter (its fun) and #cmatrix and the obvious
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
and for people which go the extra mile, either #adb with #scrcpy for android fun or the limitless options of #yt-dlp
(spice up your music collection with some yt-dlp -x <LINK>
or choose smaller / bigger quality with yt-dlp -F <LINK> ... so much more fun tha any limited and fastly outdatet gui/addon)

@b0rk is there a way to permalink an archived tweet?

I cannot be the only person who finds linux on the desktop annoying and hard to use sometimes, I love linux but it can really be the worst

@b0rk holy cats, this is a mood

@b0rk is she a sister of the data witch? @djnavarro

@b0rk tar, but with the correct flags first try!

@b0rk this gave me the idea alias b0rk=strace 😀

@b0rk (mailbox server is a single point of failure; unfortunately all of the similar systems have this problem; you basically use an external server as a meeting point)

@b0rk yeah very handy tool. We enroll it to everyone during our onboarding in our company.

@b0rk @kaasbaas thank you

@b0rk down here, we all float 🤣

@b0rk OMG! The curse of IEEE754 😱

@b0rk
🤣
And I got in trouble for sneaking a SLIDE RULE into class.

@b0rk It doesn't have to not be the cover.

as usual let me know if you run into any bugs!

this whole website is an extremely thin wrapper around lldb, you can think of it as an advertisement for how cool gdb/lldb are :)

I've been (very very slowly) working on a guide to writing your own TLS implementation from scratch and this is motivating me to make some progress on it

@b0rk Nice.
There is also this https://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatConverter/IEEE754.html but it’s not got so many 🛎️ 🔔 and whistles

@b0rk bartoz ciechanowski has such a talent for building extremely useful little interactive pedagogical things like this . its AWESOME

@b0rk oh wow, that's an amazing resource

here's the table of contents for "The Pocket Guide to Debugging" again, since a few people have asked what it's about.

it's a list of dozens of specific debugging strategies that you can use in any programming language to investigate your hardest bugs :)