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Robin Stocker
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Backend Dev @ Canva – ex Atlassian (Bitbucket); Java, Rust, open source, Swiss living in Australia https://github.com/robinst
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · Nov 26
Intro post: Have you ever done a `git push` and it printed a nice link for you to create a pull request (see screenshot)?

That was me! One of my first 20% projects when I was working on Bitbucket at Atlassian. GitHub later copied it – glad they did because I use it almost every day :)!
Terminal showing the output of a "git push", with a link to create a pull request
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 11d
Not sure about the annotation, but Javadoc apparently can’t be there, it has to be in a @param on the record itself.
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 14d
A tool I helped create a few years ago. It was pretty straightforward to write (~one week with a few devs) but apparently it’s really useful for certain types of research!

A great collaboration between @atlassian.bsky.social and @victorchang.edu.au.
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Bioinformatics Advances @bioinfoadv.bsky.social · 14d
🧰 Now published in Bioinformatics Advances: "Atlantool: A command line tool to retrieve DNA and RNA sequencing reads from BAM files by the read identifier"   

Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf226 

Authors include: @nibor.org, @egiannoulatou.bsky.social
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · 21d
I had to implement this at work.. Thanks JavaScript/JSON/Java/UTF-16 :/
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · Aug 21
`jj undo`, I love you.

(jj is a git-compatible git alternative. You should try it.)
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · Aug 5
What I like about fooToBar is that it lines up with the types and e.g. put(foo, bar) (and in general how a map is a foo -> bar).

What I like about bar(s)ByFoo is that it puts the more important thing first. And sometimes the "ByFoo" doesn't need to be explicit if it's clear enough without it.
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · Aug 5
For a field with type Map<Foo, Bar>, do you prefer naming it fooToBar, or barsByFoo? (Assuming that e.g. just bars is not clear enough.)
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · Jul 22
This was a really interesting episode about databases but also UX trade offs. (No prior knowledge of DB internals required.)
Implementing Hardware-Friendly Databases (with DuckDB co-creator, Hannes Mühleisen)
Developer Voices · Episode
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · Jul 22
It me
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Mart_the_Gooner @mart-the-gooner.bsky.social · Jul 22
Incoming Robin #Birds #Birdsinflight #SuperBob
A Eurasian Robin aka Robin Redbreast flying directly towards the camera with its wings tucked in.
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · Jun 20
Was the first time using the new Maven Central Publisher Portal, which is the replacement for OSSRH. Followed this guide: central.sonatype.org/publish/publ...

... and it worked on the first try! Seems better than the old system, kudos to the team!
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · Jun 20
Released a new version of commonmark-java 🎉: github.com/commonmark/c...
Release commonmark-java 0.25.0 · commonmark/commonmark-java
Added Include OSGi metadata in jars (META-INF/MANIFEST.MF files) (#378) More documentation with examples for Node classes (#370) Changed GitHub tables: Tables are now parsed even if there's no b...
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · Jun 20
@gork.bluesky.bot is this true?
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · May 28
One of my favorite little tricks to copy some git changes to another checkout is `git diff | pbcopy` in the source followed by `pbpaste | git apply` in the destination.
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · Apr 30
It doesn’t prevent anyone from handing in a blank vote (i.e. an “informal vote”). But yeah, compared to Switzerland, Australia has much less frequent voting, so maybe that helps.
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · Apr 30
I like that Australia has mandatory voting -> ~90% turnout: www.aec.gov.au/Elections/fe...
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · Apr 25
It was a great tool the few times I’ve used it, thanks!

Recently I’ve discovered @duckdb.org for this. While not a direct replacement, it allows processing CSV using SQL, e.g. see
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · Feb 10
Used duckdb.org for the first time today. Just to do an inner join of two CSV files, but I'll try it again next time for some ad-hoc data processing.

This is a single command, but it also has an interactive mode with syntax highlighting and completion:
Terminal command: duckdb -csv -c 'select * from "documents.csv" natural join "users.csv"' > joined.csv
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · Mar 30
Would be great to have it formalized, yeah! Excited for jj and other tools :)
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · Mar 29
I see, so it’s more like “it happens to work” than being explicitly supported at this point.
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · Mar 29
Oh, I didn’t know git allowed custom headers in commit objects, when did that happen?
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Raph Levien @raphlinus.bsky.social · Mar 19
New blog post up on the Rust font loader now shipping in Chrome. I only had a small part in this personally but am proud of the team's work. developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-...
Memory safety for web fonts  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers
Learn how and why the Chrome team has replaced FreeType with Skrifa.
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · Mar 13
Like:
- Conflicts can be resolved later, nice markers (with diff)
- Stable change IDs (and surprisingly short, no need to copy paste)
- jj new (with e.g. --after). Very convenient to work on stacked things in general
- rebase without having to check out
- push doesn’t need force
- log nice and short
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · Mar 13
I’m using it in one out of three of my checkouts (of the same repo).

Most of the initial issues I had have been solved (e.g. pushing and pulling works). Some that remain:
- LFS files need a workaround (just initially, not actively working with them)
- No indication of branch/status in IntelliJ
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · Mar 12
Used `jj absorb` recently and it’s so good!

I had some work that was already in PR, and some work on top for later PRs. I needed to address some feedback for the PR. So just made the changes on top, then absorb -> changes are automatically put into the right commits.
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · Feb 23
Contention
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · Feb 10
I used github.com/BurntSushi/xsv for this before which is great, but having the full power and familiarity of SQL is super useful!
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Robin Stocker @nibor.org · Feb 10
Used duckdb.org for the first time today. Just to do an inner join of two CSV files, but I'll try it again next time for some ad-hoc data processing.

This is a single command, but it also has an interactive mode with syntax highlighting and completion:
Terminal command: duckdb -csv -c 'select * from "documents.csv" natural join "users.csv"' > joined.csv
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