Git with your friends

This week we invited our friend Mat Ryer to join us for some good conversation about some Git tooling that’s been on our radar. You may know Mat from Go Time and also Grafana’s Big Tent, which we help to produce. We speculate, we discuss, we laugh, and Mat even breaks into song a few times. It’s good fun.

Discussion

2023-02-11T08:33:31Z ago

This has to be the most unique podcast that I have heard on here. I appreciate the length of the episode (long ones are good too), though I really don’t know what to say about Matt’s songs. There’s definite talent there, but … well… hmm…. Loving the variety though and the whole comedy of this episode. This must be one of my favourites.

2023-02-11T14:14:35Z ago

Happy to hear you enjoyed it! We want to do more hangout style shows like this…

As for Mat’s songs, “Rust Away” was literally made up on the spot, so give him some grace there. He actually wanted to remove it (or record a better version for us to splice), but we wouldn’t let him.

“Keyboard Wizard” he wrote awhile back, but still sung off-the-cuff. Here’s a video of Mat performing it that sounds better than the one on the show.

2023-02-12T05:00:49Z ago

Hi Jerod. Thanks for your reply! Ha, don’t worry, I actually thought that Rust Away was very good for a first attempt, I just like to tease. As for ‘Keyboard Wizard’, thanks for that link. I’ve even subscribed to Mat’s channel for more goodness. :) As for the episode format, it was good, I liked it. I hope that the additional length though doesn’t make the participants less forthcoming though (due to the extra work required). I guess if the length is naturally selected by the participants, it shouldn’t be too much of a strain for you all.

2023-02-12T08:18:53Z ago

Glad you enjoyed the format. In this case, we had a hard time ending it.

2023-02-11T23:54:46Z ago

More Matt

2023-02-12T00:12:41Z ago

Also, reviewpad has competition?

2023-02-22T15:08:07Z ago

Very interested in LinearB ever since we spoke with Yishai Beeri at All Things Open!

2023-02-13T14:34:23Z ago

I agree with your hesitation to do pip install so I just use a virtual env and symlink from somewhere on my $PATH

2023-02-22T15:07:06Z ago

Sounds like a good move. Do you have a write-up on the process?

2023-02-22T15:29:40Z ago

Not as such, but the process is basically this, if I want to install a pip project called Whammo:

$ mkdir ~/Projects/Whammo
$ cd ~/Projects/Whammo
$ python3 -m venv .venv 
$ source ./.venv/bin/activate
$ pip install Whammo
$ ~/bin # or somewhere on your $PATH
$ ln -s  ~/Projects/Whammo/.venv/bin/Whammo .

Very occasionally might need to skip that last step and instead put the following in $HOME/bin (as Whammo (chmod + x Whammo)

#!/bin/bash
cd ~/Projects/Whammo
source ./.venv/bin/activate
Whammo

2023-02-22T16:54:12Z ago

$ ~/bin

should be

$ cd ~/bin

2023-03-22T00:22:13Z ago

I’m a new listener and this is the first episode I chose. I really enjoyed it; you covered interesting git tooling, but mostly it was fun. Lots of laughs; the 3 of you played off each other really well. Mat was a great guest.

2023-04-27T12:41:20Z ago

I listened to this with a delay, and I write this with yet another delay, but it has to be said: unique and awesome episode. The amount of fun that was obviously had is tremendous. And I had a lot of fun too 😊
Please continue to do episodes like this guys, it was awesome. And last but not least, I love Adam’s story about the presure washer, and not just the story, but also the delivery of it 😄