Oliver Earl

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  1. GitHub can stack pull requests

    Stack her? I hardly knew her I’m not the biggest fan of agentic development as a concept, but where it shines is breaking up some work that you did into logical, smaller pull requests that are easier to review, and picking up any little mistakes you might’ve made along the way. Maybe add some extra tests. In any case, whilst hard at work, I left Codex with the daunting task of breaking up a pull request I made to Portal back in June and subsequently forgot about, into smaller, more digestible…

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  2. How do people blog for thirty years without running out of things to say?

    Throughout my time on the Internet, I’ve made numerous attempts at blogs, some ranging from simple online journals to others where I’ve essentially just ‘reblogged’ whatever it was that I found interesting at the time. I think it’s generally fair to say, with the benefit of hindsight, that airing my dirty laundry, insecurities, and perhaps frustrations with unrequited feelings wasn’t the wisest of decisions on a medium that essentially never forgets. When your professional reputation, whatever…

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