Selectively ignore lines in git diff | LornaJane I have a things-as-code project that outputs mostly text-based formats, but a lot of them. To keep an eye on consistency, I rebuild all the outputs and dump them into a local git repository so I can very easily diff to spot any changes - which was fine until we added a build timestamp, so every file

I've been using git so long but somehow missed the -I (uppercase "i") option to ignore lines matching something. Blogged it so I'll remember how to do it next time I need it #thatsWhatBlogsAreFor

A brief reprieve from the US-Israel-Iran war news to share some photos from Lviv, because the western Ukrainian city was absolutely glorious today, on this first day of spring. Signs point to the long, horrible winter and freezing cold being over. The Russian attacks, however, are likely to continue

UN Human Rights Council Castigates The EHRC For Their Proposed Trans Exclusion The Council has released a statement severely criticising the EHRC for their desire to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces in the UK

I'm very aware of the radio silence from the big mainstream media outlets on this story.

Almost like they don't want to acknowledge it.

Do they fear it will humanise trans people?

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I think I do this the other way around when I make my technical things pink and sparkly. I'm doing tech but there are no rules that we all have to use the primary colours configuration!

When D3 was released in February 2011, it transformed how we build data visualizations for the web and ushered in a new age of unbridled creativity in information design, data journalism, and beyond. Today, it remains the backbone of modern, interactive data viz.

Happy 15th birthday, D3 🎂
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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they…

This is interesting - AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It - couple of things that stand out to me as problems organizations need to tackle 1) one person's productivity can be another's slop, and 2) cognitive overload hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

Put an end to being the “go-to” engineer  Being the individual people run to in a fire may feel great short-term, but the negative effects can pile up.

"Being the go-to engineer is a double-edged sword" I had some pause for thought reading this article from LeadDev leaddev.com/culture/put-... #linkTuesday

I recognise myself, but also got some strategies to try.

it’s really true. if you haven’t tried steam on linux in a while, give it a shot. it’s really good now

Git renames are not renames I consider myself pretty git-confident, I've worked with it a lot, taught it, been a git consultant, run engineering and various things-as-code teams. This week I had a spectactular git problem where…

I know git doesn't track renames. I know it constructs them from adds and deletes. I know my repo has lots of similar (not identical!) files ... I was still surprised that a bunch of directory renames produced phantom changes on merge!!

Here's the blog post: lornajane.net/posts/2026/g...

I didn't enjoy it either but really good article. Thanks for sharing!

Help us support Girlguiding and the Women’s Institute to remain inclusive Girlguiding and the Women’s Institute say that they have been left with no choice but to exclude trans people, even though they don’t want to. This is outrageous – and we want to defend them. Both org...

Help us support Girlguiding and the Women’s Institute to remain inclusive:
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You can vibe code your way to a working prototype. You cannot vibe code or one-shot your way to a competitive product that works at scale. The hard part isn't writing code; it's the architectural supervision.

Lynn Conway.

#ResistanceRoots

Lynn Conway was born on this day in 1938 in Mount Vernon, N.Y. She was a computer scientist, electrical engineer and prominent transgender rights activist whose work at IBM and Xerox PARC fundamentally reshaped the architecture of modern computing and the semiconductor industry. /1

1. Russia isn’t winning in Ukraine.

documentation: it's good both for your human and robotic colleagues!

same for observability.

Is NHSE forcing young people to detransition? The minutes of a meeting, leaked to NWBylines, strongly indicate NHSE does not want the prescribing of puberty blockers at WellBN to continue

Please help me get this story out to a wider audience.

Please share everywhere.

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OpenSAFELY team awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize for Higher and Further Oxford’s OpenSAFELY team wins the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for revolutionising secure NHS data research, protecting patient privacy while unlocking life-saving health insights.

I'm delighted to say we have won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education with our work on OpenSAFELY, inventing new methods that let researchers analyse NHS GP data while protecting everyone's privacy, and with complete transparency, in a hugely productive platform!
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PUBLISHED TODAY: ‘Noise & Nuance: What the public really thinks about immigration’ – new findings from the British Future/Ipsos Immigration Attitudes Tracker, which has studied public opinion on immigration and asylum since 2015 [🧵]

Gender-affirming care saves lives

The BBC was founded to “provide impartial news”. If it's going to be the UK's biggest media organisation, it has to do its job right.

Hold the BBC to account 👇
https://action.goodlawproject.org/tell-the-BBC-to-stop-attacking-trans-people?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=socials

🚨🚨 " The BBC is far from perfect but it remains the most trusted news source in the world. To live up to its promises, it needs more independence, not less. More secure funding, not less. It needs to be set free, not shackled; defended, not attacked." Great stuff by @chrischirp.bsky.social

Zohran Mamdani in New York
Catherine Connolly in Ireland
Rob Jetten in the Netherlands
Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly

The rise of the far right is not inevitable.
If we work together, we can dare to hope.

Worth noting that the flu jab at Superdrug is only £9.95 if you sign up for their loyalty card.

The Trump Action Tracker has had an update! Finer-grained domains, easier filtering, better views on a phone, to help make sense of 1600+ actions

This is an amazingly useful analysis of what is happening in US under Trump - and spilling into the rest of the world.
Thank you for your time and expertise, @chrischirp.bsky.social

The Trump Action Tracker has had an update! open.substack.com/pub/christin...

it's just so so mad and evil, as I pointed out yesterday!
Clearly, I wasn't interpreting it wrong.

38. Ordinary people have no idea how much progress we’ve made. Tell people at parties that UK carbon emissions in 2023 were at their lowest level since 1879, for example. Most developed economies are now reducing carbon emissions without lowering quality of life.

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OpenUK needs some additional Non-Executive Board members to join our strategic Board at a critical time in the future of open technology. Find out more openuk.uk/openukboard/...
#openuk #boardrecruitment

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.