Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

April 21, 2026

Highlights from Git 2.54
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Nice quality of life improvements for the history rewrites. That said, I'm particularly looking forward to the changes in hooks handling, it's always been a pain to deal with in teams, moving them to config should help.

Inside GitHub's Fake Star Economy
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People are manipulating vanity metrics to attract VC money? Who would have expected? This is so unsurprising, I don't even understand why people look at those...

A Field Guide to Bugs
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OK, I find it funny. That said, there's a kernel of truth in this piece: there's clearly a taxonomy of bugs and you better know on what you just stepped.

In defence of bureaucracy
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Clearly, any endeavour which has to scale will need some form of bureaucracy to stay afloat. The art is keeping it to a minimal before it starts to be an end in itself.

How do we deal with the catastrophe of uninsurability?

The insurances are starting to crumble under the risks. Looks like it's time to do something about it.