Git log as archaeology
2026.101The code is a summary. Git is the document. When an RCA stops making sense from the current source, you read backwards.
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2014
Git history with Gource
2014.158Turning months of git commits into an animated video with Gource and ffmpeg -- then opening the weekly sharing session with it.
2013
History as communication
2013.049Commit history isn't a log of what happened -- it's a narrative you author. Rebase, atomic commits, and the discipline of writing history for the person reading it six months from now.
Starting over
2013.036Ditching WordPress for a custom Node.js blog engine powered by libgit2 -- git as the content store, markdown as the writing format, npm for everything else.