“15 Tips to Enhance your Github Flow” has lots and lots of good advice for anyone working with GitHub. Tips vary from PR templates all the way to automated dependency management and updates. Really useful!
Tag: productivity
git worktree – a better way for git stash abusers
If you constantly find yourself using “git stash” while working on a project, or, even worse – have multiple copies of the same project cloned on the same machine, “git worktree” might be a much better alternative for you.
Manage multiple working trees attached to the same repository.
A git repository can support multiple working trees, allowing you to check out more than one branch at a time. With
git worktree adda new working tree is associated with the repository. This new working tree is called a “linked working tree” as opposed to the “main working tree” prepared by “git init” or “git clone”. A repository has one main working tree (if it’s not a bare repository) and zero or more linked working trees.When you are done with a linked working tree you can simply delete it.
Here are a few links to get you started:
- What would I use git-worktree for?
- The 2016 Git Retrospective: Worktrees
- Git 2.5, including multiple worktrees and triangular workflows
- Parallelize Development Using Git Worktrees
- git worktree notes
11 Best Programming Fonts
It’s that time of the year once again, when you should take a five minute break from whatever it is you are doing. Here are “11 Best Programming Fonts” that might help you out in being a little bit more productive. If not that, than at least bring you a slight change and some eye candy, when staring at your code.
For me personally, Source Code Pro by Adobe (featured in the screenshot above) is still the best option. I have it setup in the Terminator as Source Code Pro Semibold at size 11, which makes it large enough to work with the code comfortably and small enough to eat too much screen space.
If you want to find and compare more fonts, have a look at these two resources:
Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity
Here are a couple of bits that I liked in “Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity” blog post:
How can someone be 10x more productive than his peers without being noticed? In some professions such a difference would be obvious. A salesman who sells 10x as much as his peers will be noticed, and compensated accordingly. Sales are easy to measure, and some salesmen make orders of magnitude more money than others. If a bricklayer were 10x more productive than his peers this would be obvious too, but it doesn’t happen: the best bricklayers cannot lay 10x as much brick as average bricklayers. Software output cannot be measured as easily as dollars or bricks. The best programmers do not necessarily write 10x as many lines of code and they certainly do not work 10x longer hours.
Programmers are most effective when they avoid writing code.
… and:
The romantic image of an über-programmer is someone who fires up Emacs, types like a machine gun, and delivers a flawless final product from scratch. A more accurate image would be someone who stares quietly into space for a few minutes and then says “Hmm. I think I’ve seen something like this before.”
TreeProjects – personal database software for home and business
A while back I blogged about TreeSheets, which is a flexible free form data organizer. If you tried that but felt that you need something slightly different, then check out TreeProjects – a personal database software for home and business.
TreeProjects provides an unlimited, freeform, ordered hierarchical organization of your information items (in a tree), single-file compressed data storage, instant single-click item viewing and editing, multi-tab interface for concurrent editing of several items, powerful search capabilities, and many other features.