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Planning the new blog series on deep-dives into the nuances of supporting a wide range of SCMs, and the kind of challenges that can crop up. I'm calling it The Source Files. Rough plan: Episode 1: Revisions Episode 2: End of the Line Episode 3: Encoded But Not Forgotten [...]

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Sooo DiffX ended up in the #1 spot on Hacker News. That, um.. that was an experience. I think I should write more about the sorts of challenges we face with integrating with SCMs and similar tools. They're non-obvious and often surprising.

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One of the things we've built that I think we really got right is DiffX.org. There really isn't any standard for diffs. Every tool has their own format. We've built a spec and implementation for a universal format retaining backwards-compatibility.

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Guess-Driven Development. www.reddit.com/r/Experience...

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We've built a new hotbar for your favorite review actions! Customize the buttons you use the most when reviewing. This is now available in the new RBCommons.com, and will be coming to Review Board 7.1 soon.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Let's see, it's a Saturday... Nice light rain... Got a latte... Think I'll do a major launch of the new v7 of our RBCommons code review service today that we've spent over a year working toward. Yeah, that sounds fun. blog.beanbaginc.com/2025/02/11/g...

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@legaleagle.tv Hey. Thank you for everything you’re covering and doing, how you’re presenting all this insanity in a digestible but not pandering way, and for your extremely relatable moments at the end of each @nebula.tv video. Your channel is so important right now, and I’m sure it’s exhausting.

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We've heard from engineers in love with AI-assisted development and engineers frustrated with overall lower code quality. Some are pairing AI review with AI development and getting bad results. What are you seeing?

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This is how you poker.

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Some days it's just amazing that any software works at all. Everything breaks and everything is full of paper cuts. We should slow down and fix things.

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This is by far the neatest book I own. Egyptian Grammar, third edition by Gardiner. Published 1973.

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Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…

submitted 95 days ago • 2080 comments

Heck, are you American? You need ssd.eff.org in you life. Like right now.

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We're bombarded with so much content, so much noise, distilled down to black-and-white, competing for our attention. We react, overestimating how much we know and underestimating all the complexity. We need to read more — but it's not that simple. chipx86.blog/2025/02/12/r...

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looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

submitted 114 days ago • 208 comments

You know, I never did get a TikTok account. Maybe today is the day! It’s never too late to get a TikTok account!

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Anyone seeing giant spikes in search indexing traffic coming out of China, hundreds of requests a second, all unique IP addresses and randomly-composed user agents? No vulnerability tests or anything. Looks like search indexing. This is hard to block. Traffic seems to ramp up when we try to block.

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Image classification is basically a solved problem now. Man, I could really go for a dozen hot dogs with sprinkles right about now. Source: Photos app on my iPhone.

submitted 156 days ago • 1 comment

The 7.0.x series has been delightfully stable, and has let us focus on some new work like new Power Pack 6, RBCommons, and Review Board 7.1 releases. Those are coming soon!

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments

Sometime soon, when this is all over, I’m going to tell the story about my chimney that fell down, what started it, and what came next. It’s going to be a good story, once I’m past it.

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We've talked about the difficulties in this market, keeping an open source-based company alive and healthy with an 800lb gorilla dominating devtools industry: www.reviewboard.org/news/2024/10...

submitted 192 days ago • 1 comment

Can you believe Review Board's 18 years old? The development world was pretty different when we started this, and we really don't want to do the math on our ages. But here's some math we're happy to do: We're offering 18% off all new Power Pack licenses and support contracts until 2025!

submitted 192 days ago • 1 comment

Picked up a Meta Quest 3. I’ve been wanting a portable VR headset not tied to a PC for a while (having had a Vive, PSVR, and Index in the past). This hit the price and feature set, and the AR mode is pretty decent (far better than the others). And Space Pirate Trainer remains a S-tier VR game.

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Let's sum up the night: 1. Jake didn't seem to really want to hit Mike, and Mike didn't really seem to want to be hit. 2. We saw Mike Tyson without pants. 3. A Netflix cameraman got taken out by a cheerleader. 4. Some IT people earned some serious comp time. What a night.

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Can you believe this guy went on to become a boxer? www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXiX...

submitted 203 days ago • 1 comment

They should attach GoPros to the boxers, let us switch views, pretend we're playing Punch Out.

submitted 203 days ago • 2 comments

Time to hide some ghosts. #TheGreatGlobalGhostHunt

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I don't want to brag, but Kamala Harris and Tim Walz keep texting me.

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So... what's YOUR favorite way of keeping Anthropic's ClaudeBot from taking down your system through overly-aggressive spidering that ignores robots.txt? Best practices welcome.

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