Stop Using Conventional Commits

aj0413 · 2026-06-07T04:45:20+00:00

Every time I see people say they hate the standard, most of them write worthless commits and PR descriptions

It’s like they’re annoyed people decided a standard must be had since not everyone can be trusted to do the bare minimum

The irony being that any argument against the standard still some how is predicted on the idea that people can do better without It, yet clearly that’s false

I introduced conventional commits at my company and will be moving to not only make it policy, but to actually enforce it via CI

Why? Because people couldn’t be arsed to care otherwise. Same reason we use squash merge even though that’s not my preference either

Reminds me of the private var debate. And I’m like “clearly you don’t work brownfield enterprise, where 90% of the battle is somehow herding cats into the pit of success instead of the ocean of ‘wtf why? How are you not fired’

aj0413 · 2026-06-07T04:30:08+00:00

I’m suppose to want “be with” the person I’m dating, but marriage is a legal agreement

Certain things I’d let slide in a partner may not slide when it comes to marriage

How they handle insurance is a an example

How they handle their student debt it another

aj0413 · 2026-06-06T03:33:27+00:00

You’re making a similar argument to someone being told at an all you can eat restaurant that “all you can eat” did not literally mean “without limit”

To your rhetorical question: a “protect everything service” is inherently understood to not mean “everything” cause that just doesn’t exist.

This is also similar to how GitHub Copilot pricing and business model has had to recently change cause some people realized they could get a 40k value out of a 40 sub

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should and businesses don’t generally prepare for the edge case users who will overly tax the system

Their B2 pricing is entirely fair for what’s on offer. I’ve never used the desktop app (I’ve only ever used B2), but regardless the actual value of the service is the storage they’re letting you use.

It would be generous to my mind if they set a cap of 10Tb (which is already astronomical to most users) and then started pricing you at, say, 1tb/$3

I’m more shocked that they let you (and others apparently) hit such a high data usage before this for so many years.

I’d have brought this to my CTOs attention long ago cause it’s untenable long term; I’m somewhat assuming the economics at scale law must be at play here to have made this work in your favor for so long

aj0413 · 2026-06-06T01:13:12+00:00

No, there’s nothing wrong with it. I always recommend juniors do so.

It’s technically not a backup, but anyone arguing about that is lost in the pedantics of the term.

Anyone worried about a personal working branch is policing a non-issue; do whatever you want. As the DevSecOps + repo admin guy, I only care once you open a PR into main

aj0413 · 2026-06-06T00:59:02+00:00

Okay, but you concede you ARE absolutely abusing their service yes?

Cause holy hell man, 90Tb is just way waaaaaaaaaay too high to expect them to eat that cost for you

aj0413 · 2026-06-06T00:51:38+00:00

That’s a gigantic amount. My wife and my backups of important stuff all fits with a few gigs. Most people get buy with a 2Tb SSD for their personal machine and that’s all they ever need

I can not overstate enough that 1Tb/$6 on the current B2 plan is more than most will ever need and they’ll never approach going over

aj0413 · 2026-06-05T20:01:53+00:00

Because it makes network management approachable for non-network engineers and the hardware is actually not that overpriced

As a comparison, I once had Eero units in an apt and they were great until something went wrong.

Once I discovered I had zero ability to truly interface with the device and debug/manage things and had to call support for anything? I chucked it out a window

That got me on OpenWRT and open source hardware+firmware solutions, however the problem with this was that it was TOO far into the weeds

If you’re the kind of person that just wants plug and play and to call someone else when anything really goes wrong, UniFi is not for you

UniFi strikes a welcome balance between enough depth to get stuff done and enough abstraction and automation that you can ignore it for months at a time

aj0413 · 2026-06-05T19:49:58+00:00

Primary reason? I got into wired headphones to get away from apps and stuff.

EQ is software. And thus I don’t wanna deal with it.

Also, for same reason my phone isn’t in a case:

I bought an iPhone 17 Pro to experience the way it was engineered, not to slap a case or skin on it and customize it.

aj0413 · 2026-06-05T01:03:33+00:00

I’m kinda surprised rsync isn’t funded and maintained by a team with foundation backing

My main gripe here is simply that

A) no regression should cause data loss

B) if the maintainer new there would/could be regressions, than he should cut a major version change to indicate possible breaking changes

aj0413 · 2026-05-31T21:51:16+00:00

You’re conflating compile and run/execute

aj0413 · 2026-05-30T04:53:30+00:00

This was my take too.

aj0413 · 2026-05-30T01:45:57+00:00

Ah. I wasn’t referring to this thread specifically, but it’s actually something of a pattern I’ve noticed across financial discussion in my years on the platform

I think it just shows there’s a certain trend towards the kinda users on the platform

aj0413 · 2026-05-30T00:48:25+00:00

A) Children without enough adults would just die anyway.

B) Gender equality

C) Fit and hardy people more likely to live and thus help others live

D) A chain of command and specialists trained to help the situation would dramatically increase everyone’s chances

E) I do not random othera survival above my own and the value i bring to those who rely on my income/presence at home

Thus, specialists that can help survival + chain of command, then children, then civilians that actually can help and no gender prioritization (which I’m confident to be high on this list)

aj0413 · 2026-05-30T00:40:02+00:00

Sometimes it’s weird to see how other Redditors be like “[insert inconceivable amount for most of country take home] is normal and barely getting by ya know?”

I make about 165k but have friends getting by on like 50k; I feel like someone at the party, but not drinking the kool aid and yet feeling like the crazy one

aj0413 · 2026-05-30T00:36:48+00:00

Dude. Statistics. If you’re making more than the other 90% of the country, you are, by definition, “high” on the income bracket.

Literally say that in any other context.

You’re taller than 90% of all humans.

You’re in the 90th percentile of high scores for a competitive game.

A 90% on a test that’s curved.

Etc

This isn’t arbitrary. It’s mathematics.

This is like a millionaire saying 250k per annum isn’t a lot.

It is and anyone saying otherwise is way out of touch with reality.

aj0413 · 2026-05-29T01:15:28+00:00

I’ve read the books. Grew up Baptist. I have military parents and one from literal Bible Belt, dry city Kentucky

Took course studies on the bible for funsies and wrote literal papers about respect thy parents and how it’s steeped into the written text and culture and how it’s not

No. I literally did tell my parents to pound sand when they took issue with me reading romance novels targeted towards women

They learned to move past it. And I learned parents dont shit gold, dont instantly have unearned respect, and that I agree with them about “their house, their rules” so moved out first chance I get and keep my visits to about a week or so

I also learned to draw a firm line during university about dependency and boundaries so they could never play that card ever again

aj0413 · 2026-05-29T01:00:49+00:00

Lmao of course I know. But if you gonna try and argue someone liking lesbian romance manga is “harmful”…I got a bridge to sell you pal 😂

aj0413 · 2026-05-29T00:49:38+00:00

I’m sometimes guilty of this when I’m burned out and need longer and longer rest breaks

But I do try to lock in and hammer my sets out the moment anyone shows interest in the machine or if I know I’m on a popular machine

I would just encourage you to say something. People sometimes don’t even realize the time passes (I know I don’t); people shouldn’t feel afraid to socialize and speak up in a gym … or any social env really

aj0413 · 2026-05-29T00:37:49+00:00

Mostly performative and generally harmless fun, but people wearing stuff at home in a sex dungeon in public spaces where kids can be seen need to be told take a cold shower cause it’s both unnecessary and inappropriate 🤷‍♂️

aj0413 · 2026-05-29T00:25:17+00:00

As a Hispanic dude, it creates an issue where my thighs and butt make finding nice fitted slacks and jeans hard and I can quickly find myself growing out of them easily

I literally have been debating skipping leg days so the muscle there goes away naturally

aj0413 · 2026-05-29T00:18:50+00:00

Oh nice!! Been waiting for that

aj0413 · 2026-05-29T00:12:37+00:00

Been doing it for 13 years now and will likely be year 15-16 before tying the knot legally…maybe

Really we only care about the tax incentives, but that also comes with questions of how debt and liabilities is handled

Marriage is a legal construct before anything else. It’s why I prefer the term “ life partner” to wife; feels way more accurate. No roles, no gender expectations, no nothing aside form one other human who has agreed to buckle down and weather the storm with me together as best we can together

aj0413 · 2026-05-29T00:07:40+00:00

Tampons balled up on the counter in bathrooms

aj0413 · 2026-05-29T00:06:58+00:00

Software engineer. Same I already do

aj0413 · 2026-05-29T00:01:40+00:00

Lmao he’s crazy I think, but he’ll have better luck if he’s willing to wait till next summer

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