98: I Have Good Branch Hygiene

We discuss complexity and progressive disclosure, garbage collection, and the impenetrable nature of Git.

• Chris Lattner on Accidental Tech Podcase
• Simple Made Easy
• Garbage Collection was a feature of Objective-C 2.0
• The listen gem breaks my laptop
• Go GC: Prioritizing low latency and simplicity
• Modern Garbage Collection which calls out the tradeoffs of Go's approach
• WebKit’s Retreating Wavefront Concurrent Garbage Collector
• The Joel Test
• Tig: text-mode interface for Git

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