Help Your Future Self
Recently, I was looking at my commit messages. I wasn’t able to comprehend some of them. I thought to myself, “there must be a better way.”
Lucky, there is a research paper that addresses this question. “What Makes a Good Commit Message?”
It is the consolidation of:
- 46 research papers
- 50 secondary sources
- 30 expert opinions
A good message must answer these two questions:
- Why was the change required?
- What was changed?
Moreover, the researchers followed an empirical approach. They constructed a data set from popular open-source repositories and created a machine-learning algorithm to classify good messages based on these two criteria.
Check the results from the link below:
I promise, this tip will make you healthier, wealthier and wiser!
Double-click! First, let’s see how to disable it.
In the control panel, double-click the file explorer options.
Then, select single-click.
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines. — Claude Shannon
The other day, an old guy asked me to send a soft copy via a messaging app. He had no clue on how to accomplish this task. Nor did he own a smartphone, and the recipient had no alternative channel to submit those documents.
The number of dependencies for trivial tasks is increasing.
Are we doing it right?
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