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The git rebase command has a reputation for being magical Git hocus pocus that beginners should stay away from, but it can actually make life much easier for a development team when used with care. In
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Introduction: In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid took the unusual step of hiring a market research firm. Their brief was simple. Understand what Americans
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After a little over 5 years, I'm going to be leaving GitLab for my next adventure. It's no surprise to those of you who have been following me that I have absolutely loved my time there. I'm so proud
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A s a teenager, I remember being moved almost to tears by the sound of a family member chewing muesli. A friend eating dumplings once forced me to flee the room. The noises one former housemate makes
What would happen if public transportation were free? What if it were paid for by congestion pricing, digitally implemented? What if public toilets were safe, beautiful, well-appointed and consistentl
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under
Hilt includes extensions for providing classes from other Jetpack libraries.Hilt currently supports the following Jetpack components: ViewModel Navigation Compose WorkManager You must add the Hilt dep
4 variables: Cost, Time, Quality, Scope . Cost has diminishing returns. Delaying Time causes coordination problems. Reducing Quality backfires quickly. Controlling Scope is your best option. — There i
F or the whole of human history, we have shared our world with birds . We have hunted and domesticated them for food; worshipped them in our religions; placed them at the heart of our myths and legend
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T he county of Yorkshire, in northern England, is not only God’s own, as most residents think. It is also home to a breed of folk who judge themselves tougher, blunter, more hard-working and more bloo
T he denouement was undramatic. The Cuban missile crisis in 1962 might have begun with public declarations from President John Kennedy and the threat of nuclear annihilation for all, but its conclusio
Feb 23rd 2023 | KYIV A LEX has gained some weight, and started walking. The bloody welts that covered his body when he arrived at Natalia Popova’s shelter in January are gone. He still suffers from ga
“Happy to talk about it if this is interesting,” Marc Benioff , the founder of Salesforce, texted Elon Musk last spring. He continued, opaquely: “Twitter conversational OS—the townsquare for your digi
T he problem with Wordle isn’t that some people use it to show off to strangers or that it’s especially time-consuming, or even that it’s a bit of a waste of brain, but the minuscule feeling of emptin
When we think about altering a policy, a setting or even the outfit we usually wear, it’s easy to imagine that everyone is going to notice. In fact, almost no one will. That’s because no one cares abo
T o get a sense of why Toyoda Akio announced on January 26th that he would hand over the keys to the world’s biggest carmaker to Sato Koji, his number two, watch the surreal video from 2021 of the two
Introducing the wonderful Ana Pradas, a senior visual designer on our editorial tools team. From making collages as a teenager in Madrid to being a part of some of the Guardians most creative projects
Feature In 1793, French scientist Joseph Dombey sailed for the newly formed United States at the request of Thomas Jefferson carrying two objects that could have changed America. He never made it, and
Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) An Architectural Decision (AD) is a justified software design choice that addresses a functional or non-functional requirement that is architecturally significant
When Should I Write an Architecture Decision Record April 14, 2020 Published by Josef Blake TL;DR Have you made a significant decision that impacts how engineers write software? Write an ADR! An Archi
T he moment was unforgettable. Dervla Murphy was ten, struggling up a steep hill near Lismore in County Waterford on her second-hand bike, when she looked down at her thin legs slowly pumping and thou
T o understand how discipline is changing in British schools, go to Michaela Community School in north London. Among the first things you see are vast bright billboards. Whereas other schools coax pup
T he most saccharine song of 1980 was “There’s No One Quite Like Grandma”, performed by the St Winifred’s School choir from Stockport, England. It shot to the top of the British charts as kids everywh
H e was just a boy, only 17. Yet in the World Cup final of 1958 Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé, showed the poise and supreme skill that would mark his career. As Brazil led Sweden,
You might have already heard of a 10x engineer. Probably too often, actually. If there's such a thing as a 10x engineer, surely there must be a 1x engineer, too? Of course there is! Let's dig into a n
I n September 2017 a group of young women from a jewellery school came to Daniel Brush’s studio-cum-home, a loft in mid-Manhattan. They crammed onto his sofas, awed to be meeting a figure who, to them
Street closures good. Photo: Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images The urban planner and writer Jeff Speck has spent years arguing the same deceptively simple point: We should be able to walk where we live. Th
“O nce in royal David’s city, stood a lowly cattle shed.” The soloist’s voice sliced through the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft, a small church in a corner of the Palace of Westminster, before a congreg
T oyama nestles between a deep blue bay and snow-topped peaks, some 250km northwest of Tokyo. In many ways, it is a quintessential regional Japanese city: its residents are greying, its industry is st
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