Every developer talks about Git. But if you're just starting out, it can feel overwhelming. Let me break it down simply. What is Git? Git is a tool that tracks changes to your code over time. Think of it like a save system in a video game. Every time you hit save, Git remembers exactly what your code looked like at that moment. If you break something later, you can go back to any previous save. W…
I ran five Claude Code agents in parallel one morning this week. By the time the dust settled I'd had three separate git collisions, one branch with two unrelated tabs' commits tangled together, and a recovery that needed a force-push I had to explicitly approve. Everyone's work survived. But the lesson cost me an hour I didn't plan to spend, and it comes down to a single file. This is a follow-u…
The 20,000-line PR that was actually 47 lines: building ClearPR Some time back, a teammate opened a PR. The diff said 20,847 lines changed . I clicked, my MacBook fan kicked in, and GitHub started painting the page in those familiar green and red blocks. I scrolled. Scrolled some more. Then a bit more. Eventually I got to the part where I realised what had happened: someone had run Prettier on th…
