Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/25
The manual process of getting back to the earliest commit of a GitHub repository is easy for small repositories, but for a large one it is very tedious.
TL;DR: there are various ways, but the easiest was the INIT Bookmarklet below.
Note: 2 weeks before the scheduled post made it to the front of the queue, I got a report¹ that it started to fail. Here it still works.
It’s hard to debug because of the functional programming approach taken.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/25
From a while back, which I initially missed because it was in the midst figuring out my ver increasing bowel problems leading up to all my cancer treatments, but still relevant:
[Wayback/Archive] Immo Landwerth @terrajobst@hachyderm.io on Twitter: “That’s why C# emits
.callvirtinstructions, even if the method isn’t virtual. That forces a call sitenullcheck.”
Except inside [Wayback/Archive] Extension Methods, referring to this will never return null.
Yes you can work around this using things like reflection, but the C# compiler will emit .callvirt for any method call which does an implicit null check by the caller which means you never have to check that in callees.
The above tweet quoted the first message of the [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @MStrehovsky on Thread Reader App on working around this .callvirt protection:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/18
The image [Wayback/Archive] GjXf0EPWEAAaAoz.jpg:orig (1528×2048) posted by [WaybackSave/Archive] Deepak Kumar (दीपक) 😷💉 on X: “@Grady_Booch @jsngr” was a response to [Wayback/Archive] Grady Booch on X: “@jsngr …”
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And what to we call a language with sufficient expressiveness and precision able to construct executable artifacts?
We call it a “programming language”.
At best, AI will revolutionize software development on the same manner as did the invention of compilers. The entire history
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which also spared these interesting responses:
The library problem is even bigger than the XKCD single dependency one, as there are so many of those fragile dependencies which I discussed in Every conversation about dependencies since 2020 uses the same XKCD 2347 based image, which is a problem on multiple levels. AI will introduce even more dependencies and likely many of them from unknown background causing huge copyright issues.
Image (full size below) from [Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/10
From a while ago: [Wayback/Archive] TFrame – What is the accepted way to use frames in Delphi? – Stack Overflow.
Besides me referring to my blog post Delphi – Frames as visual Components – don’t forget your Sprig!, these were important comments and answers with notes by myself:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/05
For a, I wanted to a HTML ul list the SQL keywords in multiple columns I was afraid this would be a tough CSS job, but in practice it was way easier than even explained in the below Stack Overflow answers that made me find
[Wayback/Archive] columns – CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN
The
columns[Wayback/Archive] CSS shorthand property sets the number of columns to use when drawing an element’s contents, as well as those columns’ widths.
TL;DR:
<ul style="columns:3">...</ul><ul style="column-count: 2; column-width: 15em;">...</ul><ul style="column-count: 2; width: 480px;">...</ul>Here are the answers:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/04
Important read (5 minutes or so): [Wayback/Archive] Restrict Mutability of State. When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change… | by Kevlin Henney | Feb, 2025 | Medium
Via [WaybackSave/Archive] Kevlin Henney on X: “Blogged: Restrict Mutability of State “What appears at first to be a trivial observation turns out to be a subtly important one: a great many software defects arise from the (incorrect) modification of state.” “
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/03
Cool video about how developers feel when others (like QA) test or use the software they have just built:
[Wayback/Archive] Devs watching QA test the product – YouTube
I got to the video via [Wayback/Archive] sanja zakovska 🌱 on Twitter: “Devs watching QA test the product… “ to which the author responded with
[Wayback/Archive] Alison Burke on Twitter: “@sanjazakovska Incase anyone needs the resolution 😂😂 follow me on tiktok! vm.tiktok.com/ZMJKeK29a“
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/27
This case, it was C# accessing a SQL back-end, but the responses to the Tweet how so many more examples not even related to software development.
Remember that plane crashing because they overloaded while they thought the fuel load numbers were in Imperial pounds where in fact they were in metric kilograms?
That’s why naming things that contain numbers should contain the unit in their name!
Related blog post: Watch “Felienne Hermans: How patterns in variable names can make code easier to read” on YouTube
Tweet: [Wayback/Archive] Nick Craver on Twitter: “Troubleshooting a hanging test suite and godDAMMIT. “In seconds”. Integer timeouts should be a felony offense punishable by an indeterminate amount of seconds/milliseconds/hours/fortnights/whatever the judge chooses.”
var csb = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder(TestConfig.Current. SQLServerConnectionString) { ConnectTimeout = 2000 }; int SqlConnectionStringBuilder.ConnectTimeout { get; set; } Gets or sets the length of time (in seconds) to wait for a connection to the server before terminating the attempt and generating an error. Returns: The value of the SqlConnectionStringBuilder, ConnectTimeout property, or 15 seconds if no value has been supplied.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/20
Every once in a while I discover an answer I have not yet put on my blog, especially as related answer are always interesting.
This is one that didn’t make it until now: [Wayback/Archive] Exceptions and DLL in Delphi – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] jpfollenius, [Wayback/Archive] Deltics and [Wayback/Archive] Lars Truijens)
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/07
The people knowing about the really early Pascal history are a dying breed. So before I pass away (see the posts on my rectum cancer), let me post a few more links here that based on yesterday’s Trip down memory lane: book on p-Code based UCSD Pascal which I ended with:
I learned a few more things from [Wayback/Archive] What do you think about something like Pascal bytecode? (Page 2)
Here we go:
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