The open source Git project just released Git 2.23 with features and bug fixes from over 77 contributors, 26 of them new. Here’s our look at some of the most exciting features and changes introduced since Git 2.22.
Source: Highlights from Git 2.23,an overview by Taylor Blau.
Experimental alternatives for git checkout looks like something I am
going to use in the future.
The problem with learning Vim is not that it's hard to do---it's that you have to keep doing it. This guide attempts to break that cycle, so that you can learn it for the last time.
Source: Learn vim For the Last Time: A Tutorial and Primer, written by Daniel Miessler.
JSON is the de facto standard when it comes to (un)serialising and exchanging data in web and mobile programming. But how well do you really know JSON? We'll read the specifications and write test cases together. We'll test common JSON libraries against our test cases. I'll show that JSON is not the easy, idealised format as many do believe. Indeed, I did not find two libraries that exhibit the very same behaviour. Moreover, I found that edge cases and maliciously crafted payloads can cause bugs, crashes and denial of services, mainly because JSON libraries rely on specifications that have evolved over time and that left many details loosely specified or not specified at all.
Source: Parsing JSON is a Minefield by Nicolas Seriot.
A great overview, highly recommended if you maintain a JSON parser or plan to write one.
In the afternoon my mother wanted to buy some flowers for my brother Marco and his wife Ingrid. They were about to return from a vacation and my mom loves to leave some flowers in their house as a surprise.
At the first shop she didn't find something she liked. While waiting I took some photos of garden baskets with succulents.
At the second shop she found some nice flowers to her liking. I took a photo of Echinacea purpurea flowering.
On the way back to her house my mother and I spotted two cats. Of the first one I had taken a photo while it was resting on top of a garbage can.
The second one, a calico, I had seen before but now as back then it was very shy and I couldn't pet it. Yet, I managed to take a photo of it while I was sitting underneath some bush.
The calico reminded me of the calico cat we had seen near my mother's house.
Answering this question is not easy. Like always, the best response is “it depends” !
But let’s try to give you all the necessary info the provide the most accurate answer. Also, may be fixing one single query is not enough and looking for that specific statement will lead in finding multiple problematic statements.
In the evening I read MySQL 8.0: if I should optimize only one query on my application, which one should it be ?.
The discovery that carbon atoms act as a marker of time of death transformed everything from biochemistry to oceanography – but the breakthrough nearly didn’t happen
In the evening I read ‘Perhaps the most important isotope’: how carbon-14 revolutionised science, an article by Robin McKie.
In the evening I finished The Thirst by Jo Nesbø. At first the pace was a bit slow to me but it was well worth to keep going on as the speed picks up after a while. I loved the various plot twists and red herrings. An excellent read which ends with a cliffhanger.
Sherlock Holmes meets The X-Files in this acclaimed paranormal mystery series from the author of the Fourth Element Trilogy
In the evening I started in The Daemoniac, book 1 in the Gaslamp Gothic Dominion series by Kat Ross.
In the afternoon I was debugging a Perl program that died in a function; I tried to call a method on an unblessed reference.
Because I wanted to know which part of the code had called
this function I defined a sig handler for __DIE__ as follows:
use Carp;
$SIG{ __DIE__ } = sub {
Carp::confess( @_ );
};
And I got a nice stack trace which made it possible to fix this bug within a few minutes.
Git can be learned. There are numerous introductory resources available, but there are also lots of useful tips and tricks that can help you avoid issues and be more productive. I’ll share a few here that might help you avoid disaster.
In the evening I read More productive Git — Tips for acquiring Git super powers, an article written by James Turnbull.
I want to list a few good reason why, in my opinion, rebasing is a good practice that brings many benefits to your workflow.
Alessio Pieruccetti writes in Advantages of Git Rebase, an article I read in the evening.