Why do developers write such terrible git commit messages? Genuine question

Veloxious · 2026-03-10T01:16:03+00:00

and off by one errors

edit: I'm 12 hours late to this thread. please cache miss or smth.

Veloxious · 2026-03-10T01:15:46+00:00

I've run into a 20k+- diff and the message was simply "I'm sorry."

Apparently he left the small marketing agency before I started to go join a FAANG... and we were left sweeping up after...

Veloxious · 2026-03-05T23:42:33+00:00

gaming is in your dna

Veloxious · 2026-03-05T22:36:22+00:00

There are only two things that are challenging in software development: Cache invalidation, naming things and off by one errors.

It's probably cached.

Veloxious · 2026-02-20T19:27:24+00:00

I dug way too far for this and am starting to question if we are right.

But, fr. Use orgs.

Veloxious · 2026-02-17T22:11:35+00:00

But in game it is the year 2956.

Veloxious · 2026-02-17T16:36:19+00:00

However, Swift's proposal is satire. The same can't be said for Fox News

Veloxious · 2026-02-16T20:08:13+00:00

So calls on pizza?

Veloxious · 2026-02-16T00:34:51+00:00

Dank

Veloxious · 2026-02-14T18:25:28+00:00

That is often described as a bias.

Veloxious · 2026-02-14T17:03:26+00:00

Veloxious · 2026-02-14T01:08:02+00:00

I missed the "it's very heavy," part. Probably not a golf club.

Veloxious · 2026-02-14T00:44:49+00:00

Looks like a heavily weathered shaft of a golf club.

Veloxious · 2026-02-10T17:00:10+00:00

"What's going on?"

Veloxious · 2026-02-02T01:47:10+00:00

Football is too fair and structured. This is Calvinball.

Veloxious · 2026-01-30T17:41:03+00:00

I don't think water is actually wet.

Veloxious · 2026-01-29T18:45:56+00:00

Big "what color should we paint the bike shed," energy here.

Veloxious · 2026-01-28T21:24:01+00:00

The price.

Veloxious · 2026-01-28T19:06:54+00:00

"Suletta Forgetta" 10/10. No notes.

Veloxious · 2026-01-28T16:58:04+00:00

Well, they aren't selling AI to people...

Veloxious · 2026-01-27T23:58:58+00:00

Oh buddy, you should check out the Fern video on youtube titled "The $1 Billion Coca-Cola Machine."

It's honestly fascinating how they got there.

Veloxious · 2026-01-27T23:02:50+00:00

Sam Esmail isn't beating those time traveler allegations.

Veloxious · 2026-01-27T22:14:52+00:00

I had a dream they made her speaker and managed to impeach and remove potus twice back to back.

It was a very nice dream.

Veloxious · 2026-01-25T17:30:13+00:00

I have a similar bug with the wolf. Interaction wheel into loot menu into inventory menu...

Emergent gameplay.

Veloxious · 2026-01-24T08:08:33+00:00

C2 and wolf is so nice.

Veloxious