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mr mr cote
Personal blog · mrcote.info/blogprogrammingcareer
mr mr cote is a personal blog at mrcote.info about programming and career. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's posts on the Mikado method and small, focused commits during refactoring and migrations. One commenter compares it to their own micro-commit policy at work.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
It's the first time I hear "Mikado" but it's pretty much the commit policy I established for work, and we call it micro-commits. http://lucasr.org/2011/01/29/micro-commits/ https://mrcote.info/blog/2017/12/04/more-lessons-from-mozrev... https://dev.to/rpalo/plan-your-commits The article focuses on refactoring and migrations, but it works also for regular development. One rule of thumb is: write a one-line commit mes…
Comment linking /blog/2017/12/04/more-lessons-from-mozreview-mozilla-and-microcommits/
on “A Plea for More Mikado”Submitted Deconstruction of a Failure as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Tale of Two Commits (2018) as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving Bugzilla From Bazaar to Git as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Tale of Two Commits (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: Driving Change at Mozilla as a story · 1 points
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