I want to start using some of these just to see how people react, but I don’t think I’d be able to keep a straight face.

Is it a coincidence that the common abbreviation for “top of tree”, ToT, resembles a crying kaomoji? I think not.

Because in the VCSes we used to use, branching was a huge pain and didn’t add much. Basically, you only branched to update something that had already been released. Git changed our work habits, which is a pretty impressive thing.

My team was chuckling about how the “originals” used to commit all code changes directly to main, like animals —. Then it hit me: we *all* used to do that *all the time*. Pre-git, all our project histories are an almost perfectly straight line.

“Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.”.

I don’t know much about good coffee, but I’m pretty sure these instant packets aren’t it.

One of the signals that a story is set in “the future” is the presence of video calling. (2001, The Jetsons, etc.) Well, we have widely available video calling now — and we mostly don’t use it. It’s actually considered rude outside of some specialized circumstances.

Leo (age 11½) has learned how to whistle! He has not yet learned how to stop.

git blame = who wrote this.git blame blame = who approved this.git blame blame blame = who made the list of approvers.

Aviva (age 4¾) complains that she can’t nap because her stuffies are keeping her awake asking her to do things for them. On the one hand, this is cute imaginative play. On the other, there are multiple horror movies that start this way, so… yeah.

Where are the “keep your government hands off my Medicare” people when you need them?.

Teaching sand to think was a mistake. Teaching it to talk to other sand was an even bigger mistake.

Aviva, age 4½: “I just wrote this!”.Me: “Great! What does it say?”.Aviva: “I don’t know, I can’t read.”.

My new side project: Unicode ZWJ sequences for sandwiches.

It’s me! #WWDC24.

Aviva (age 3½) can count reliably up to twelve. After that it gets a bit hazy, including such things as seventeen (five different times), eleventeen, and sixteen-two through sixteen-nineteen.

According to Aviva (age 3½), the floor in our living room keeps turning into lava. I’m fairly certain this was not mentioned in any of the disclosures when we bought the place.

Coming off Daylight Saving Time is basically jet lag without leaving home.

RT @nytimesbusiness: John Warnock, who invented the PDF and co-founded Adobe Systems, in the process revolutionizing how the world uses com….

Happened to think of lazy evaluation today, in which it’s good style to write infinite loops. Say you want to print prime numbers. Step one is to write a function that returns all the primes. Yes, _all_ of them. It’s fine, because it will only evaluate as many as you use!.