Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 29/09/2026And don't whine about how ugly the history is. The history is what it is: it should capture what actually happened. If you want a clean history that looks like you squashed each PR, what you want is `git log --first-parent`. 000
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 29/09/2026Just make PRs with a succession of commits. Craft your commits with care. Rebase until the commits look nice and reviewable. Then merge them with normal merge commits. 101
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 29/09/2026Inevitably, your "real work" ends up depending on these little cleanup items. If you force each of these cleanup items to be its own PR, then you end up with a chain of interdependent PRs to be reviewed, which bogs everything down. 100
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 29/09/2026We can probably agree that people should leave the codebase better than they found it. That means fixing little incidental annoyances as you go, and refactoring things to make your changes easier. The thing is... 100
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 29/09/2026Commits should be small, atomic, self-contained changes serving a single purpose. No argument there. Pull requests are just a bunch of work someone wants to merge. That's all. It is counterproductive to make them follow the same rules as commits because they're not commits. 100
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 29/09/2026With each PR being one commit, and commits being single small, well-defined changes, you end up being led toward concluding that PRs should also be single small, well-defined changes which, despite GitHub marketing, is a Bad Idea that kills your productivity and helps your codebase rot. 100
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 29/09/2026Unpopular opinion: squashing commits when merging pull requests is a major mistake. 100
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 28/09/2026BTW this entire show is hilarious. The bit about refrigerator salesmen is probably my favourite joke ever. 000
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 28/09/2026Brian Regan 22 years ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdHS...youtube.comBrian Regan - Walkie Talkie - I Walked on the MoonYouTube video by BrianReganComic 100
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 27/09/2026Those kinds of accusations say more about the accuser than the accused. 000
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 27/09/2026(Caveat: I did these calculations myself and I'm not an expert. Take with a grain of salt.) 000
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 27/09/2026We know of no way to form such tiny black holes, so the only lunar-mass black holes that exist are primordial, and we have little evidence yet that those exist. Known black holes won't even begin evaporating until the very very far future. Like on the order of half a trillion years from now. 100
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 27/09/2026Something I think people don't say often enough about Hawking radiation: There are no known black holes anywhere in the universe that are actually evaporating. Any black hole more massive than the moon has a temperature lower than the cosmic microwave background, so they absorb more than they emit. 110
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 26/09/2026“Your highness, you are as far from the pyramids as from TikTok” 010
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 25/09/2026You're doing a bit, right? No way an actual human thinks this. 000
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 24/09/2026This is great and I'm glad he's doing it. More opera fans = better. But when I get to the end of this video all I hear is "I'll see you at the show AAAAAAAAA NAAAAAAAAA BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" 000
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 24/09/2026There should be a Nobel Prize in science communication. 010
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 23/09/2026Wow! Have you ever seen a reading under 500 indoors before? 100
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 21/09/2026static.klipy.comVoldemor: Sourire MaléfiqueAlt: Ralph Feinnes as Voldemort 010
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 20/09/2026Cripes. The perpetrator is 11 years old. Let’s just get some perspective here. 001
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 19/09/2026Huh I've been googling and it seems the C64 came in a number of colours around the world. I still kinda think that photo is a VIC-20 but I could be wrong. 000
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 19/09/2026Bro that's a VIC-20. The tan-coloured function keys. 310
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 19/09/2026Not exactly. "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort." If you, for example, use your troops to invade Minnesota, or side with Putin against America's interests, or pardon insurrectionists... 001
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 19/09/2026If only the US constitution contained a definition of "treason" to prevent people from tossing that word at each other and rendering it meaningless. 100
Reposted by Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"Are you selling me a solution or a dependency?" is a question I think more people should ask. 4639341074
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 19/09/2026This same thinking led Kamala Harris to pick Israel over Palestine, and look how that turned out. 060
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 19/09/2026Weird indeed. I happen to like DST but I'm fully aware it's just about how humans schedule their day and nothing more. 110
Reposted by Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦peptostate @peptostate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026George Lucas: "It's like poetry, they rhyme..." Vin Diesel, nodding: "Vin Diesel." 141
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 17/09/2026Or like I couldn’t have asked it myself if I wanted a guess from the guessing machine. 000
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 16/09/2026Might be this thread. Hard to tell. bsky.app/profile/patr... 110
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 16/09/2026Dang I just realized I got blocked by them. I wonder why. 230
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 14/09/2026I could have sworn just like a few months ago it was illegal to lie about your product in advertising. 000
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 14/09/2026I've become convinced that AI defeats us by weaponizing our own laziness and apathy against us. 000
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 12/09/2026Fair, answer, but it's worth considering whether this particular style has been destroyed by AI and it's time to adjust. This kind of image doesn't evoke what it did a decade ago. 020
Patrick Doyle 🇨🇦 @patrick.doyle.lol · 12/09/2026Fucking guy. I think Irish unification would be cool, but now that Trump wants it, it will never happen. 040
