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1. Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2017 01:32:41 UTC Hallå Kitteh
   Two well-written and interesting articles that both touch on path dependence in the evolution of software:
   
   http://adamierymenko.com/privileged-ports-are-causing-climate-change/
   
   https://redfin.engineering/two-commits-that-wrecked-the-user-experience-of-git-f0075b77eab1
   
   Good discussions going on where @dthompson shared them:
   
   https://toot.cat/users/dthompson/updates/36745
   
   https://toot.cat/users/dthompson/updates/36819
   
   The redfin post ends up recommending https://people.gnome.org/~newren/eg/ , which reminds me I still haven't had a look at http://gitless.com/ , which is the same but different.
   
   
   Speaking of git, wouldn't it have been great if I could have just made this a Merge Reply to both of Dave's posts? Now I just made an independent post, because I don't think it belongs more to either discussion.
   
   Of course the UI considerations of Merge Reply are daunting. Or maybe they aren't: #pleroma is doing a pretty good job of handling complex reply trees by flattening yet providing context links and popups. In that kind of interface, just adding another parent link isn't a biggie.