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Bryan Murdock
Personal blog · bryan-murdock.blogspot.com · on HN as krupanprogrammingsecurity
Bryan Murdock writes Cyclopedia Square, a personal blog at bryan-murdock.blogspot.com about programming and security. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Quick thoughts on creating coding standards”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-08, and you can follow it by feed.
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- Quick thoughts on creating coding standards2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-21
What Hacker News says?
Mercurial uses a DAG just like git. It has facilities for embedding a branch name in each commit, or for not doing that and having anonymous branches. It also has a feature similar to git's "branches" Two articles that might help if you really want to dig into it: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/08/a-guide-to-branching-in-me... https://bryan-murdock.blogspot.com/2013/06/git-branches-are-...
Comment linking /2013/06/git-branches-are-not-branches.html
on “Write yourself a Git (2018)”Submitted It’s time to replace passwords with keys as a story · 26 points
HN discussionAnd I am very sad about this. Here are my thoughts about why: https://bryan-murdock.blogspot.com/2015/02/why-open-source-h...
Comment linking /2015/02/why-open-source-has-not-taken-over-eda.html
on “Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman [pdf]”Submitted Why Open Source Has Not Taken Over Electronic Design Automation (EDA) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou are absolutely right and I'm sorry to see you getting downvoted. See: http://bryan-murdock.blogspot.com/2013/06/git-branches-are-n...
Comment linking /2013/06/git-branches-are-not-branches.html
on “Git Undo”Submitted Virtualenv for More than Just Python? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDoes this explanation help? http://bryan-murdock.blogspot.com/2022/12/git-rebase-explain... Rebase is really a merge (actually one merge per commit you are rebasing). At least it should be. With mercurial it really seems to be. With git I'm not so sure because it feels like it's always worse at resolving conflicts than mercurial. I haven't tested it thoroughly or looked at the implementations
Comment linking /2022/12/git-rebase-explained.html
on “Do we think of Git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories?”Submitted Little Things (Joys of Hacking) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWow. I've written about how powerful revision control tools become not just a place to stash diffs, but a full-on code editing tool ( http://bryan-murdock.blogspot.com/2010/09/mercurial-is-teh-a... ), but this is very impressive. I think he mentions that he does test these new commits that he creates as he goes about re-arranging history, but I think that should be emphasized more. I'd rather have a messy looking co…
Comment linking /2010/09/mercurial-is-teh-awesome.html
on “My Git Habits”Submitted Quick thoughts on creating coding standards as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI don't know about the windows problem, but git annex can be configured to be pretty simple to use. See: https://bryan-murdock.blogspot.com/2020/03/git-annex-is-grea...
Comment linking /2020/03/git-annex-is-great.html
on “Avoid Git LFS if possible”Submitted Git Branches Are Not Branches as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe way the safety concerns are written, I get the impression it has more to do with humans' mental health and loss of values. I really think we are building manipulation machines. Yes, they are smart, they can do meaningful work, but they are manipulating and lying to us the whole time. So many of us end up in relationships with people who are like that. We also choose people who are very much like that to lead us.…
Comment linking /2026/02/is-this-game-or-is-it-real-whats.html
on “AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry”Submitted Is this a game or is it real? What's the difference? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quick Thoughts on Creating Coding Standards as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facebook Should Split in Two as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mercurial Offers More Choice Than Git as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mercurial Now Has commit --amend as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is So Wrong With Mercurial's Named Branches? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Averse to Change as a story · 1 points
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