I've been thinking about this problem for quite awhile, and recently coded up something that allows for easy conversion between today's written English, and a phonetic spelling convention.

https://git.sr.ht/~dcw/iNgliS

I've created a Firefox Add-on for it as well.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/inglis/

The idea is that you don't want to check-in any builds.

Sure, so gitignore build/ or whatever. But you don't need to unignore .gitkeep

The idea is that instead of adding a nonsense file, you use the native .gitignore functionality.

".gitkeep" is just a human thing; it would work the same if you called it ".blahblah".

So their pitch is that if you want to explicitly keep the existence of the directory as a committed part of the repo, you're better off using the actual .gitignore functionality to check in the .gitignore file but ignore anything else in the directory.

I don't find it amazingly compelling; .gitkeep isn't breaking anything.

This still confuses me. Do you mean to say "use the .gitignore functionality, and check in the .gitkeep file"?

No. Use a .gitignore instead of .gitkeep. Instead of checking in build/.gitkeep, check in build/.gitignore.

I don't know that I like this approach. It certainly works, but it's not specifically what (people expect) a .gitignore file to be used for. That confusion isn't good: https://thecodelesscode.com/case/222 and https://thecodelesscode.com/case/223

.gitignore is the officially recommended way to do this: https://archive.kernel.org/oldwiki/git.wiki.kernel.org/index...

Granted, naming is hard. Routinely using a file named .deleteme or .rememberwalkthedog because it's recommended instead of a more readable solution, is not a compelling reason to switch.

Is it your fault when someone puts a bad file on the Internet that the LLM reads and acts on?

I'm shocked that SRAMs would be considered a luxury item for open silicon. They're essential for building anything that would be commercially viable, since area is far from free.

`time` is a shell command that you can use to invoke other commands and track their runtime.

Alexandr Wang is 28 years old, the same age as Mark Zuckerberg was when Facebook IPO'ed,

A business where the distinguishing factor was exclusivity not technical excellence so it tracks.

They probably used some of the money for this: https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/10/02/meta-buys-rivos-to-a...

I use atime to identify archives that can be retired. It's common for circuit designer to release a lot of large files for their peers to analyze or incorporate into a parent/grandparent simulation. They will use that data for as long as it is still relevant, which means different things for different types of data, and the only consistent thing we've found is that if the data hasn't been accessed in awhile, then we can retire it.

I believe that was the author's intent.

I guess maybe it’s the nonstandard sMEL chunk that bumps the size of the PNG file up so high. Seemed more to me that they were talking about an image of random noise though.

Sandvik 14c28n is common for budget knives. It would be nice to see it on this list.

will add, thanks