{"channel":"tech","content":" https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/give-up-seventy-percent-of-the-way\r\n\r\nI have decided to give up on calling branches \"master\" in Github. ( it was political at one point, the reference to \"master\" seemed like a slavery term.) ( today, << main >> is preferred. it is shorter, it fits a flow of << development -> main -> release >> better archetypically, and it is the current default)\r\n\r\n the past is a foreign country. the question is no longer \"does your text editor handle emoji\". we let the *KEYBOARD* handle this ... ( if you go further back, you get issues about typing Cyrillic - is it a font?)","created_at":"2025-12-03T15:17:22.667779","id":708,"llm_annotations":{},"parent_id":null,"processed_content":"

\u2699\ufe0f https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/give-up-seventy-percent-of-the-way\r

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I have decided to give up on calling branches \"master\" in Github. \ud83d\udcad it was political at one point, the reference to \"master\" seemed like a slavery term. \ud83d\udca1 today, main is preferred. it is shorter, it fits a flow of development -> main -> release better archetypically, and it is the current default\r

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\ud83d\udcad the past is a foreign country. the question is no longer \"does your text editor handle emoji\". we let the KEYBOARD handle this ... \u2699\ufe0f if you go further back, you get issues about typing Cyrillic - is it a font?

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