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janalsncmyesterday at 8:06 PM5 repliesview on HN

“Just” is a four letter word and a trap our industry repeatedly falls into.

https://sgringwe.com/2019/10/10/Please-just-stop-saying-just


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nine_kyesterday at 10:00 PM

But sometimes it's applied properly! https://github.com/casey/just

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chrysopraceyesterday at 11:10 PM

I hadn't read this article until now, but I started catching myself using the word at work a few years ago and I've actively been trying to avoid using it for the reasons laid out in this post.

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hamburglaryesterday at 8:57 PM

If all you want to do is host repositories, “just” is the appropriate word here. For lone wolf work, all I care about is having a remote that mirrors all the changes and branches I create locally. It’s just redundancy. A git bare repo and SSH are all that’s needed.

I don’t do pull requests to myself, and I don’t need a bug tracker or CI.

sincerelytoday at 12:50 AM

edit: totally wrong

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doctorpanglosstoday at 4:04 AM

i used to feel the same way, but with coding agents, the Justers are surely having the last laugh