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how to consistently pay back dependency tech-debt in an Agile environment
creating a new Git repo based on the history of an old one
One Weird Trick to Easily Remove (maybe) Anything from a Webpage

don’t be scared of merge conflicts

2016 November 17

First things first: it can be a lot easier to resolve merge conflicts when you can see what the code looked like before the edits which are now conflicting. ...

use a Dvorak keyboard layout on iOS Simulator

2016 August 4

…why would anyone want to have Dvorak on a mobile device?!? Actually, I only care about it in the iOS Simulator, when I’m using it on a computer with a real-...

notes for npmCamp 2016

2016 July 30

Isaac Schlueter

version control commit messages

2016 May 20

Here is how I like to structure my Git branches and commit messages.

linking to code? always use an href which is tied to a specific commit

2016 May 6

tl;dr Don’t use links like github.com/owner/repo/blob/master/file.ext#L13 because that branch will change! Use github.com/owner/repo/blob/COMMIT_SHA/file.ext...