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Re:Git read-tree: Carbon-Copy without Merge Hell on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @06:22PM (#46128313)
git read-tree is a photocopier. It copies the state of another branch directly into your staging area. It doesn’t care about history, ancestors, or shared code. It just puts the files where you want them.

(And best of all, it’s already included with git, so there’s nothing else to download or install.)

Teaching Rust the SQL Language

When I was younger, I used to wonder how a computer could "just understand" a new programming language. Compilers were a vague idea at best, and interpreted languages felt like magic: you typed something in and the machine somehow knew what to do.SQL is not compiled straight to machine code, but building a SQL engine forces you to face a similar question: how do you get one language (Rust, in...

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Re:DeepWiki to MdBook Converter on Sunday November 09, 2025 @05:36PM (#45869900)
Built this project to self-host some DeepWiki-derived documentation, and it tries its best to include embedded diagrams as well, but still needs some improvements in those regards.

The attached link is the project's documentation of itself and I've started using it in other projects as well.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Sunday November 09, 2025 @05:33PM (#45869876)
A DeepWiki to mdBook converter to automatically document some other projects I'm working on: https://docs.deepwiki-to-mdbook.zenosmosis.com/