One thing that bothers me about today's diffs: we often read changes in a format that patch can consume!
Diffs are largely read by humans, but we have to mentally parse "@@ -40,7 +40,9 @@". Which line is line 40? Is it the first visible line, or the first changed line?
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LLMs seem to handle dependency upgrades really well.
The task is well-specified, there's usually a build/test suite to check correctness of the modifications, and there's often a changelog they can consume too.
https://twitodon.com/ is a neat tool for finding Mastodon people that you were already following on Twitter. It generates a CSV that Mastodon can consume.
Of the 3,154 folks I follow, it found 117 Mastodon accounts. AIUI it requires other users to use the service.
A wonderful property of link aggregators is that they don't limit themselves to current affairs.
For example, HN regularly links to content that wasn't published this year (with a label to show the content is older).
It's too easy to largely consume content that's very new.
