deqline

Discard commits while saving changes

Scenario

You have made some commits, pushed it upstream to the remote branch, then realized that some or all of those commits must for some reason not be included. In example, accidently commiting large multimedia files (blobs) that will forever bloat the commit history of the branch.

ensure all changes are commited in your current, "faulty" branch
switch to your master branch
- git checkout master
update master with latest changes on remote

Initialising Empty Structs in Rust

In C/C++, you can initialise a struct without giving values for any of the fields:

struct Point {
  float x;
  float y;
  float z;
};

Using GitHub Pages with a custom domain: Namecheap Edition

As often happens, I found the official documentation and forum answers to be "close, but no cigar", and so had to experiment a little to get things working.

The main problem for me was a lack of concrete configuration examples. That's not entirely GitHub's fault: having migrated from Google Domains to Namecheap in the middle of this project, I was once again reminded of how many different ways there are to do things in the name service universe [1].

Although you'd think the simplest setup would be to merely configure for the subdomain case (https://www.example.com), in my experience using the apex domain (https://example.com) instead resulted in fewer complications.

Procedure

So here's my recipe for using a custom domain with GitHub pages where Namecheap is the DNS provider:

	Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
	----------------------------------
	L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
	Branch mispredict 5 ns
	L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
	Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
	Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
	Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
	Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
	Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD

	{
	// Disable telemetry
	"telemetry.telemetryLevel": "off",
	// Zen mode
	"zenMode.fullScreen": false,
	"zenMode.hideTabs": true,
	"zenMode.centerLayout": false,
	// Theming
	"workbench.iconTheme": "city-lights-icons-vsc",
	"editor.fontFamily": "Dank Mono",