Git tips / git log --graph Updated 2025-07-16
For the strong.
git log --abbrev-commit --decorate --graph --pretty=oneline master HEAD
Output:
* b4ec057 (master) 5
* 0b37c1b 4
| * fbfbfe8 (HEAD -> my-feature) 7
| * 7b0f59d 6
|/
* 661cfab 3
* 6d748a9 2
* c5f8a2c 1
If we also add the --simplify-by-decoration, which you very often want want on a real repository with many commits:
* b4ec057 (master) 5
| * fbfbfe8 (HEAD -> my-feature) 7
|/
* c5f8a2c 1
As we can see, this removes any commit that is neither:
  • under a branch or tag
  • at the intersection of too branches or tags
Git tips / gitk Updated 2025-07-16
For the newbs.
Slick? No. But gitk does the job, like any one of the other 100 billion free Git UI viewers out there
gitk master HEAD
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/media/master/gitk.png
Many IDEs are also implementing this now (e.g. VS Code, Eclipse. Most free IDE GIt implementations are still crap, but that is the future, because you want to edit, view history, edit, view history, commit, edit.
Computer Olympiad Updated 2025-07-16
Ah, shame, they are a bit weak.
Battlecode Updated 2025-07-16
Some mechanics:
  • inter agent communication
  • compute power is limited by limiting Java bytecode count execution per bot per cycle
Video 1.
Battlecode Final Tournament 2023
. Source.
Video 2.
Introduction to Battlecode by MIT OpenCourseWare (2014)
Source.
Video 1.
The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire
. Source.
2017. Directed by Michael Oswald. Adam Curtis vibes.
Some notable points:
Anyon Updated 2025-07-16
The name actually comes from "any". Amazing.
Can only exist in 2D surfaces, not 3D, where fermions and bosons are the only options.
All known anyons are quasiparticles.
Crow intelligence experiment Updated 2025-07-16
Video 1.
Causal understanding of water displacement by a crow by PLOS Media (2014)
Source.
AppImage Updated 2025-07-16
.com and .net are very dominant. Here we list other choices made:
  • .info: has a few hits:
    • archived comms:
      • beyondthefringe.info
    • unarchived comms:
      • crickettoday.info
    • unarchived:
      • talkingpointnews.info
      • theventurenews.info
      • worldconcerns.info
    Did a full Wayback Machine CDX scanning on .info after:
    grep -e news -e noticias -e nouvelles -e world -e global
    That makes about 10k domains, so it's about the right size.
  • .org: has a least one hit, see: Are there .org hits?
  • .biz:
    • unarchived comms:
      • atthemovies.biz

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