Discovered that for integers in Python, hash(x) == x (most of the time). Seems elegant, but I was not expecting it!
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https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-02-27-why-we-designed-tigerbeetles-docs-from-scratch/ has an interesting distinction between "physical" and "logical" hash of a tarball.
By storing the hash of the decompressed tarball contents (i.e. the logical hash), they can verify the validity of files without needing to keep the tarball around.
It's weird that GitHub shows time since the last commit, but not time since the first commit. It's a nice way of seeing how mature a project is.
It's rare to see ANSI escape codes for URLs in the wild, but cargo has it!
This example links to https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/profiles.html#default-profiles, describing the different profiles.
Considering releases vs debug is a source of confusion for new users expecting better performance, this seems wise.