Why My PR Carried Other People's Commits: A Git Detective Story
A deep dive into Git internals after a mysterious PR incident revealed the hidden mechanics of GitHub's merge strategies, fork syncing, and commit identity.
A deep dive into Git internals after a mysterious PR incident revealed the hidden mechanics of GitHub's merge strategies, fork syncing, and commit identity.
The first time I saw .{"world"} in Zig, I stared at it for way too long. This is what I eventually figured out.
Async I/O, event loops, coroutines, schedulers—these terms haunted me for years. They appeared together so often that I assumed they were the same thing. They're not. Here's how I finally untangled them.
Stacks, heaps, and what actually happens when you run ./program.
When I first heard about Bancor raising $153 million in just three hours on June 12, 2017, I knew I was witnessing history. Not because of the amount—though it was staggering—but because of what it represented: the moment when smart contracts proved they could revolutionize fundraising forever. Today, I want to take you through the technical brilliance and human drama behind Initial Coin Offerings, using Bancor as our lens to understand how a few hundred lines of code changed venture capital forever.
This is an exploration of a half-baked idea that won't leave me alone. It's probably naive, definitely incomplete, but I think there's something here worth thinking through.
There's something deeply satisfying about a system where your words live as plain text files in a folder, tracked by Git like any other code.