Fear is a debilitating and robust sensation. A feeling of fear can cause one to lose faith in themselves, to give up before realizing success. Inversely some can focus fear and create a galvanizing effect from it, drawing power and inspiration. Fear has been prevalent over the last year, both within myself and shared throughout communities. It has brought out the good as well as the bad in people. Fissures have formed between friends and families as we fight to find commonality and comfort....
Not long ago, “craftsperson” was a title given to a driven individual that had excelled at a specific trade. An obsessive focus to create to the best of their ability and accel at their craft. In the same capacity, a “handyperson” is a title given to a person who may not excel at any one singular trade but is aptly capable across many. In today’s technology-driven world, I come across many gifted engineers of both backgrounds....
When was the last time you were preparing to finish polishing off that shiny new feature in preparation for merging to the release branch? Only to find yourself staring at a mountain of rebasing merges to pull in to your local branch?
This is a pretty common situation when your team is leveraging a rebase centric methodology. Feverishly pushing small changes and stacking up those precious commits. All the while creating an ever-growing list of rebase commits that you will eventually have to pour over and ensure not to break your code or that of others!...