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Willow Chargin
Personal blog · wchargin.github.io/postsprogrammingweb
Willow Chargin's personal blog at wchargin.github.io covers programming and web. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Willow Chargin's posts on a Spelling Bee Honeycomb puzzle solver written in R and on managing dependent pull requests with a stacked-diff style workflow. The comments mention them without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /posts/managing-dependent-pull-requests/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-06
What Hacker News says?
Hey, I wrote one of these, too! Mine generates and solves all possible puzzles (with my dictionary, there are 54733) in about 1.8 seconds on my six-year-old laptop, and can also typeset them to LaTeX+TikZ to make printable puzzle sheets. That’s 0.03 milliseconds per puzzle. It turns out that you can get this thing to run quite fast once you realize that you can pack words into bitsets and express the whole algorithm…
Comment linking /spelling-bee/
on “The 'Spelling Bee Honeycomb' puzzle: efficient computation in R”Interesting! I hadn't run into worktrees yet. I've been using https://wchargin.github.io/posts/managing-dependent-pull-req... for a while, after I got spoiled by Phabricator's stacked diffs at a previous job.
Comment linking /posts/managing-dependent-pull-requests/
on “Git Worktree Flow – A workflow for keeping clean commit histories”Although GitHub supports the commit-based review the author is arguing for (they found it too after writing the article), I don't think it completely solves the problem - we need to be able review, test, and merge each commit individually without needing to merge the entire PR. Since GitHub doesn't have first-class support for dependent PRs, we are still "stuck" with a broken workflow. An example workaround: https:/…
Comment linking /posts/managing-dependent-pull-requests/
on “Dislike for Pull Requests”