Something similar happened to me a while back. I was copying some code from a Mac to a remote Linux host. For some reason the Mac was using a thing called an “en dash” – which is slightly longer than a regular hyphen - and was really fucking frustrating to figure out.
I don’t know why I’m here commenting about this, but I love type, so:
Hyphen (-): the short one, used for hyphenated words. fire-eaters. Close-up.
en-dash (–): slightly longer, traditionally the length of a lowercase"n" in the typeface. Used between for things like a timeframe. 10–11:30, August–October
em-dash (—): the longest of the three, and the length of a lowercase “m”. Used as a punctuation mark to denote a side comment or to abruptly cut off a sentence. “It’s a great punctuation mark—in fact I overuse it—but it’s still useful.” “Hey where are you going with that giant—”
I didn’t bother to double check the definitions, so there might be more specific rules, but these are my rules of thumb.
Some mac apps have some quirks, the default note app was probably not meant for pasting code in, but when you do it changes the quotes and makes them all fancy. Drives me up the wall and there’s nobody to blame but me.
I was looking for this. Some text from webpages end up pasting that way too, even on non-mac systems, and it is utterly infuriating. Nothing I hate more than having to paste something into notepad++ so I can fix all the stupid quotes from some online tutorial that is giving you things to paste into a command prompt.
~95% of the JS code you see on the Web has semicolons. Apparently, a lot of programmers think it’s worth that extra keystroke to avoid these types of bugs. I agree with them. The difficulty with programming isn’t “Arrgh, there are too many keystrokes, my hands are tired!” It’s “Arrgh, HTF did this bug get in here?!?”
They made it a named function, but this is literally how you format anonymous functions in js, a key feature that usually gets called with stuff like an onclick or onload call in the html domain.
I use prettier which by default adds semicolons. Coming from predominately doing backend stuff (mostly in Java) I don’t really mind, especially when the formatter adds them for me
I would lose max 3 hrs of work that I already know how to re do. I can live with that. I don’t want to publish too much unfinished/unpolished work. There is always the chance someone might need the branch.
Even if drafts under development, I like to publish something that reaches the standard of my “best” me, not my “Friday evening” me
Because someone else might need to work on something on or from my branches. And I don’t want garbage in my history. There are cases I might not be able to squash merge, so all my history will be in the project history. I want each commit to be clean. It is not a lot of effort, and forces me to increase code quality, because I review my code more often.
Rules for all projects I manage: never rebase published branches and always publish clean code (even implementation is unfinished).
From experience following these simple rules make the whole project management easier and more effective
On one occasion i had to take over a task from a colleague while he was on his day off. He did not push his changes. I am sure he had backups but when i asked him to push his changes he had to drive home to do it.
You should be pushing feature branches as you work on them, so if you have a crash or something, your work isn’t lost. Builds should be triggered from pull requests on the main branch, if triggered by anything. You should never push directly to main. At least that’s my preference.
Our ci/cd pipelines build also feature branches. I do push often, clean code. I don’t push when I am tired enough that I can’t trust my judgment that the code I am pushing is over my personal quality threshold. I add meaningful, concise commit messages. These are my rules.
“No, wait, it’s not what you think! There’s a continuous integration system, a commit would’ve triggered a new build! It might have paged the oncall! Babe! The test suite has been flaky lately!”
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