Noticed a colleague changed their name from traditionally-gender-A to tradtiionally-gender-B, and so went to clean up my comments of the form "thanks, [name]" to just "thank you".

Doesn't really hide anything, but at the very least they won't be deadnamed if looking at old PRs?

— Jordan Rose (@UINT_MIN) April 13, 2019

Git is terrible for this sort of identity-severing change thanks to burning the committer's name into the validity of the branch, and we-the-industry should probably do something.

— Jordan Rose (@UINT_MIN) April 13, 2019

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Disclaimer: This is not a technical article. If it’s not your thing, please feel free to skip it.

If you saw me in the labs at WWDC, you might have noticed I was wearing one of these buttons:

Pronoun buttons are in! Broken Seal did a great job, as usual.

1. Buttons as received.
2. Sharpie line width tests. pic.twitter.com/jW7oidJa5I

— Peter Hosey (@boredzo) June 7, 2016

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A month or so ago, @__biancat (whose username I can’t help but read as “Bian-cat” even though it’s probably “Bianca T.”) suggested I write up some ideas for getting into compilers and programming languages.

It turns out I’m happy to expound on this, and it doesn’t need a formal CS education either.¹ Unfortunately, pretty much all of them require some amount of free time. I’ll come back to that at the end of the post.

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