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The Cretan Method

http://hintjens.com/blog:81
1•thunderbong•1m ago•0 comments

Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2026/prehistory-lost-threads
1•knowablemag•2m ago•0 comments

What It Takes to Build Yocto Properly on Arch Linux

https://jetm.github.io/blog/posts/yocto-on-arch-glibc-ceiling/
2•amanciero•4m ago•0 comments

Λ Snap – An inviting programming language for kids and adults for CS study

https://snap.berkeley.edu/
1•dr_kiszonka•4m ago•0 comments

SwarmLLM – Every device brings a slice. Together they run the whole model

https://github.com/Nehanth/swarmllm
1•craneca0•4m ago•0 comments

Bill Ackman's journey into tennis left him stranded on one of its courts

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7580250/bill-ackman-tennis-finance-hall-fame/
1•mooreds•5m ago•0 comments

America can't grow its way out of its debt problem

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/11/economy/debt-bonds-growth
1•mooreds•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SyntheticAIdata – synthetic data for CV, 100k free credits/month

https://app.syntheticaidata.com/
2•gvuksic•7m ago•1 comments

What use is certification? (2004)

https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/116
1•mooreds•8m ago•0 comments

Google Sans, Google/Android's branding font, officially open-sourced on GitHub

https://github.com/googlefonts/googlesans-flex
1•maxloh•8m ago•0 comments

Google should provide a technical postmortem of Gemini's 2024 outburst

https://www.paritybits.me/google-should-provide-a-technical-postmortem-of-geminis-2024-outburst/
1•NiloCK•8m ago•0 comments

Let AI Agents Rewrite a 92M-Message-a-Day Node Service to Go

https://www.checklyhq.com/blog/agentic-rewrite-nodejs-to-go/
1•tnolet•8m ago•0 comments

The Moon May Have Been Created in Just Five Hours

https://nautil.us/the-moon-may-have-been-created-in-just-five-hours-1284952
1•Brajeshwar•9m ago•0 comments

Cancer Capital: It sucks for founders, too

https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/09/cancer-capital-founders/
2•cptroot•9m ago•0 comments

A Misalignment of AI in Mathematics

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a-severe-misalignment-of-ai-in-mathematics/
1•Iuz•10m ago•0 comments

The big winners and losers in U.S. website traffic over the past year

https://searchengineland.com/winners-losers-us-website-traffic-past-year-486843
1•rdmuser•11m ago•0 comments

Who were the hijackers of 9/11? Here's what the 9/11 Commission Report said

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/history/remembering-911/september-11-hijacker-names/507-1bdb673...
1•final_aeon•11m ago•0 comments

Panic builds over bankrupt Spirit's looming data sale to Google

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/panic-builds-over-bankrupt-spirits-looming-data-sale-...
3•rbanffy•12m ago•0 comments

Hands Off: The Roland D-Beam's Lasting Musical Legacy (2023)

https://www.perfectcircuit.com/signal/roland-d-beam-history
1•brudgers•14m ago•0 comments

Have We Destroyed Childhood?

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/have-we-destroyed-childhood
2•paulpauper•15m ago•0 comments

Mind-altering drugs played key role in rise of Andean civilization

https://www.science.org/content/article/mind-altering-drugs-played-key-role-rise-andean-civilization
2•geneticdrifts•15m ago•0 comments

How Different Are Philosophers? (guest post)

https://dailynous.com/2026/09/10/how-different-are-philosophers-guest-post/
2•paulpauper•15m ago•0 comments

Federal survey shows promising trends for youth mental health and drug use

https://apnews.com/article/mental-health-addiction-drugs-19d7638073fe40c7f36766b97e826349
1•paulpauper•15m ago•0 comments

Physicist does the math on Star Trek's "Picard maneuver"

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/physicist-does-the-math-on-star-treks-picard-maneuver/
1•ripe•15m ago•0 comments

Major Life Announcement

https://ma.tt/2026/09/mirene/
1•tosh•16m ago•2 comments

Mold High Speed Linker Being Rewritten in Rust

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-Linker-In-Rust-Coming
1•fork-bomber•17m ago•0 comments

Oh My Zsh now supports a configurable update cooldown

https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/pull/13814
1•robbyrussell•18m ago•0 comments

Byte-Exact Across Four Languages

https://blog.stackdump.com/posts/byte-exact-across-four-languages
1•thomasjb•19m ago•0 comments

The Thinking Machine (1961) – AI debates 65 years ago [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Apsqv0CpI
1•stmw•20m ago•1 comments

Ashvamedha

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashvamedha
1•Amorymeltzer•20m ago•0 comments
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Git Commands That Cover 90% of a Developer's Daily Workflow

https://jsdev.space/15-git-commands/
29•javatuts•1y ago

Comments

epmatsw•1y ago
restore and maybe switch are the two missing ones I think. Rebase for me, but that’s preference. Cherry-pick too.
rentonl•1y ago
my co-workers used to think I was an expert in git. In reality, they memorized 7 commands while I memorized 15
hbogert•1y ago
i memorized that a commit tree is a ordered set of patches. Everything goes from there.
Areibman•1y ago
In similar fashion, this site has saved me countless hours fixing common git issues https://ohshitgit.com
the__alchemist•1y ago
I need to alias:

  git add .
  git commit -am "descriptive name"
  git push

to:

  git sync "descriptive name"
horsawlarway•1y ago
personally - skip the 'git add .'

It's a pretty terrible habit to get into, and will (not can - will) cause all sorts of headaches. From minor ones like personal editor configs getting dumped into the projects, all the way up to major ones like secrets ending up in your git history.

If you want something close, but much better, do something like:

    if [[ -n $(git ls-files --others --exclude-standard) ]]; then
        echo "There are untracked files.  Please add, remove, or ignore them."
    else
        git commit -am "descriptive name"
        git push
    fi
the__alchemist•1y ago
I see your point, but find it worth it for convenience. Ultimately git is a tool I use to get the job done, and I want it out of the way. 99% of the time, I just want to sync my project, which doesn't only mean edits to existing files.
open-paren•1y ago
How about `git add --patch -all` to make it interactive? I have that aliased to `gap` and it is probably my most used git command.
cholantesh•1y ago
That sounds better but I like the granularity I get from scrutinizing specific files or the patch takes too long to review.
speff•1y ago
I'd like to suggest also mentioning `git add -p` (--prompt). It's very helpful for just adding changes relevant to the commit
nickcw•1y ago
No `git rebase`?

Here are my stats for my last 300 or so git commands from my history

    $ history | grep git | awk '{print $3}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

     71 log
     44 show
     34 diff
     26 co # alias for checkout
     24 cherry-pick
     23 status
     18 brs # alias for branch -v --sort=-committerdate
     13 rebase
     11 commit
     11 add
      8 push
      4 archive
      3 reset
      2 pull
      1 grep
      1 checkout
      1 br
Been doing lots of tricky merges recently hence all the cherry-picks! Not normally such a large part of my workflow.
mercer•1y ago
For me, I generally don't go far beyond the commands in the article, but I /do/ make a lot of use of git rebase -i in my branches.
karmakaze•1y ago
Maybe not essential, but reflog is invaluable.

I also like to separate fetch from pull (fetch + merge).

foobarkey•1y ago
Remove merge and add rebase and we agree :)

Oh and maybe cherry-pick

seba_dos1•1y ago
Both are essential.
realaleris149•1y ago
There are other commands?
incomplete•1y ago
also gonna echo the same sentiment: where's rebase? :)

two other git log commands i find to be insanely useful are:

alias hlog='git log --date-order --graph --date=short --format="%C(green)%h%Creset %C(yellow)%an%Creset %C(blue bold)%ad%Creset %C(red bold)%d%Creset%s"'

and:

alias alog='git log --date-order --all --graph --date=short --format="%C(green)%h%Creset %C(yellow)%an%Creset %C(blue bold)%ad%Creset %C(red bold)%d%Creset%s"'

this is great when working in a repo w/a main "prod" branch that you don't commit to directly, but instead commit to "staging" or "dev". alog shows you the entire repo's history for all branches, and hlog is just the graph of the non-pushable branches (plus all feature branches).

hbogert•1y ago
i can't take this seriously if there's no mention of the '--amend' option and 'rebase' command
OutOfHere•1y ago
It missed "git switch" and "git restore".