Principles and Taste
Came across this solid advice from Thomas Jefferson recently:
In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection →
Jeff Moser provides a nice overview of what happens when connecting to HTTPS sites. Includes a ‘short, not too scary, guide to RSA.’ This one’s going into my ‘I hope I don’t ever really have to understand this but if I do I will be glad I saved this’ folder.
via Mark Longair
Pushing Non-Default Branches in Git
Learning new things every day… Mark Longair describes some sitations in which git push won’t do what you want or expect:
So, what happens when you want to push your changes back to the upstream branch? You might hope that because this association exists in your config, then typing any of the following three commands while you’re on the
add-menubranch would work:
git push github add-menugit push githubgit pushgit push github HEADHowever, with the default git setup, none of these commands will result in
new-feature2being updated with your new commits onadd-menu. What does happen instead?
He’s got a very good description of why this doesn’t work like you might expect as well as an overview of options to get things configured the way you want.
Read more →
via John Gruber
The VW Group
Peter M. De Lorenzo of Autoextremist:
We only have to look as far as the VW Group to see how things are dramatically unfolding. As most industry insiders know, the VW Group, led by the maniacal genius, Ferdinand Piech, is on an unbelievable roll right now. The VW Group boasts twelve brands from seven European countries: Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche (and SEAT, SKODA, Ducati motorcycles, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Scania and MAN).
I had no idea that the VW Group includes Bentley, Lamborghini, and Porsche.
Arguing on the Internet
Mark Twain:
Don’t argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.