Aral BalkanGit geeks be like “Just did a --squash=<ref> before my interactive rebase with autosquash but I forgot to realign the dilithium crystals so it failed and this is fine so don’t you dare complain about git’s usability you normie!”
And look, I get it, git’s commands make perfect sense (and, dare I say, are elegant) if one thinks in directed acyclic graphs. The challenge is creating interfaces for all the folks who don’t think in directed acyclic graphs. Or, in simpler terms, a note from one of my earlier talks on design: “Your app shouldn’t look like your database just threw up.”
Which leads us to the difference between inside-out and outside-in design…
More: https://ar.al/talks/#superheroes-and-villains-in-design
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