A Talk with Two Titles

Why I cut my hair

2 months sabbatical

Sabbatical checklist

• Cycle Land's End → John o' Groats
• Read books
• Spend time with family & friends
• Learn Rust

How to learn language X

1. Have an interesting problem to solve
2. Try using language X to solve it
3. IF you made an error THEN fix; GOTO 2

My interesting problem

Rust is hard

So I keep notes

And sometimes I want to look back

• So _how_ did I actually fix that error?
• I want to look at the error message again!
• Which wrong code produced it?
• Why didn't I commit the wrong version?

So I made a small change to the workflow...

record.sh

#!/bin/sh

TAG="build-`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S`"
COMMIT_DESC="Build attempt `date`"

{ git stash push -k -u
  git stash apply
  git add -A
  git commit -m "$COMMIT_DESC"
  git tag -a -m "$COMMIT_DESC" "$TAG"
  git reset --hard HEAD^
  git stash pop
} >/dev/null

echo Created build tag: $TAG

        

And now I can revisit mistakes!

Thank you!