JelteF
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Scrolling around when claude is "typing" makes it jump to the top
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JelteF on Friday December 12, 2025 @07:52AM
from the lutanho.net dept.
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JelteF on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @06:57PM
from the generativeai.pub dept.
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JelteF on Friday October 31, 2025 @07:14AM
from the github.com dept.
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JelteF on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @01:51PM
from the motherduck.com dept.
It's kinda funny that an article complaining about blurry rendering, is written using one of the most illegible fonts I've ever seen.
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JelteF on Monday August 04, 2025 @11:04AM
from the fox.wikis.com dept.
It's the most representative sample size if you're interested in your own performance though. I really don't care if other people are more productive with AI, if I'm the outlier that's not then I'd want to know.
There's a huge difference between endangering other people vs endangering only yourself.
Wait... Did you misunderstand this comment? Or are you saying grep caught up with ripgrep now?
Posted by
JelteF on Thursday January 16, 2025 @11:00AM
from the archlinux.org dept.
I learned about the --first-parent flag of git blame recently. It allows git blame to work well in repos that use merge commits.
I was forced to use the dokuwiki, but I very much disliked editing stuff in the web interface. Having a filesystem interface to the wiki system allowed me to create and edit pages using vim , which I like to use for writing.
I actually think the wall clock time that is used here is a more useful metric here. Using as few keystrokes is not necessarily most "efficient" in time if you have to think longer about which ones to press.
Except Apple doesn't take a 30% cut for every transaction in the PayPal app
Posted by
JelteF on Saturday July 13, 2024 @06:57AM
from the github.blog dept.
The most effective way I've found to get other people to "write" good commit messages is by changing the "Default commit message" for squash merges on the GitHub repo to "Pull request title and description". [1]
That fixes the "Squashing, when you have 100 crap commits, and then not re-editing the message is a crime" item, because suddenly not re-editing will give you a fairly useful message. This ofcourse assumes the PR description is useful, but I've found it much easier to convince people to write a decent PR description than to write decent commit messages.
[1]: https://github.blog/changelog/2022-08-23-new-options-for-con...
One of the authors of the patch here. Two reasons:
1. This config option approach was extremely easy to implement
2. Because making this auto.conf read-only would break many existing tools around Postgres that write to auto.conf
I wanted to clarify that I (Jelte, the author of the final patch) work at Microsoft. So, it's definitely not just one company seeing benefit in this feature. Arguably Microsoft is a cloud company too though, but honestly most of the active contributors to PostgreSQL work at a "cloud company".
Luckily that's something that you control client side so you can simply be consistent about that yourself.
My personal favorite additions to my git config are using delta[1] as my pager for much more readable and syntax highlighted diffs. And adding the following alias, which means I no can always check out to the default branch of the repo, no matter if it's called master/main/develop/whatever
[alias]
checkout-default = "!git checkout $(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref origin/HEAD | sed 's@^origin/@@')"
[1]
https://github.com/dandavison/delta
You can put this in your .gitconfig and do 'git checkout-default' to always checkout the default branch of the repo you're in, no matter what it's called:
[alias]
checkout-default = "!git checkout $(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref origin/HEAD | sed 's@^origin/@@')"
Someone signing up with a wrong email
Posted by
JelteF on Friday January 05, 2024 @05:47AM
from the checkmarx.com dept.
SwiftKey is still the only keyboard with an autocorrect that's actually really helpful, instead of actively messing up what I'm writing. But only if you (counterintuitively) turn off the "autocorrect" checkbox in the settings. Because then you will always have 3 distinct options to choose from (instead of middle and left sometimes being the same). Apparently you can install SwiftKey on iOS too (although I've never tried it).
Were you successful? I spent a lot of time too, but never got "go to definition" to actually work well.
Could you explain in what scenario you think it is better to have a display show two half images slightly faster (milliseconds) than one full one?
Alcohol also reduces the level of social awkwardness quite a bit that many people in the software engineering field exhibit. Which can be quite helpful in making new friends or finding a partner. I'd expect a significant percentage of people would not have been with their current partner without alcohol.