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Why Git doesn't track renames – original email by Linus Torvalds

A copy / backup of Linus' email from 15 Apr 2005.

GitHub labels – default color palette

As of 09/2020, GitHub uses this color palette for labels:

Here are the hex codes:

Synology: how to increase shutdown temperature

My Synology DS218+ runs with a single SSD disk that has an operating temperature range of 0–70 °C, which is common for SSDs. Synology, however, has a default shutdown temperature of 61 °C, probably due to HDDs and some lazy programming.

I'm a very light user of NAS – all I want is a network attached storage and silence. My DS218+ has one 2 TB SSD disk in it and I've changed the system fan for a quieter / slower one.

Everything runs fine but about once in a month, I get this notification:

[Synology DS218+]Synology shut down due to disk overheating. >

How to link to headings in GitHub issues and pull requests

If you have an issue comment / PR description on GitHub, it doesn't automatically get anchors / IDs that you could link to:

What I like to do is to add a visible # character like this:

VSCode extensions for GraphQL

Quick research and comparison.

Apollo

Notes from May 2019, slightly updated in July 2020:

Relatively good experience, released regularly, seems to be getting reasonable attention from its authors
There's no validation of the schema (apollographql/apollo-tooling#1287) and no Go to Definition within the schema (apollographql/apollo-tooling#1238)

(Note: this is a rough draft of a blog post I'd like to publish to https://versionpress.com/blog.)

Run VersionPress on Local by Flywheel

Local by Flywheel is a great way to run WordPress sites locally. Here is how you can experiment with VersionPress using this tool.

(Note: You'll be able to try change tracking, undo, restore and other features of VersionPress but not its cloning and merging features which require two environments to work with.)

First, create a new site in Local. I'd also recommend enabling HTTPS for good measure (modern browsers will be happier). Local makes this super-easy, just click the Trust button on the SSL tab and update the site's URL (I prefer to do that via WP-CLI, open the SSH session as shown below and execute something like wp search-replace --all-tables http://vp-demo.local https://vp-demo.local).

Dealing with tty / pty in MSYS2 shells

In my experience, the biggest practical hurdle when running a mix of native and MSYS2 programs is related to tty / pty. I wish I understood perfectly what is going on but at least I think I can explain the problem and what are the options. When I learn more, I'll be happy to update this post.

The problem

When you run a shell of your choice like bash.exe or zsh.exe, you have three main options:

Run it in the mintty terminal.
Run it in Windows console ("cmd.exe").

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# Installs symlinks to dotfiles into the $HOME directory.
	#
	# Flags:
	#
	# -n Dry run
	# -f Force – overwrite files in $HOME if they exist
	#
	# Inspired by https://github.com/mplacona/dotfiles/blob/65329dc/bootstrap.sh but quite different in the end.

	# Finder: show full path in title
	defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool true

	# Finder: show all filename extensions
	defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleShowAllExtensions -bool true

	# Finder: show status bar
	defaults write com.apple.finder ShowStatusBar -bool true

	# Finder: allow text selection in Quick Look