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Cake day: August 10th, 2023

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  • Brendan Eich was a Dark Programmer of the Netscape, so powerful and so wise he could use the scripts to influence the sexuality to create gay… He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from straight. The dark side of the Bit is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.
    He became so powerful… the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did.
    Unfortunately, he sent the anti-gay everything he had, then a woman touched him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from straight, but not himself.






  • The core functionality behind git last-modified was written by GitHub over many years (originally called blame-tree in GitHub’s fork of Git), and is what has powered our tree-level blame since 2012. Earlier this year, we shared those patches with engineers at GitLab, who tidied up years of development into a reviewable series of patches which landed in this release.

    The free software ethos at its finest, this is enough to make a grown man cry 🥹