1. 24 points Dec 17, 2025

   Put SSH keys in .git to make repos USB-portable

   43 comments dansjots github.io
2. dansjots Dec 14, 2025

   What an incredible article. More than its impressive documented scope and detail, I love it foremost for conveying what the zeitgeist felt at each point in history. This human element is something usually only passed on by oral tradition and very difficult to capture in cold, academic settings.

   It’s fashionable to dunk on “how did all this cloud cruft become the norm”, but seeing a continuous line in history of how circumstance developed upon one another, where each link is individually the most rational decision at their given context, makes them an understandable misfortune of human history.

3. dansjots Dec 13, 2025

   I wonder if you can hack a LocalStorage sync feature via ATProto PDS, since you can put arbitrary JSON records via /xrpc/com.atproto.repo.putRecord and not just Bluesky posts.

   The only drawback I can think of is that all of your commits are broadcast on a megaphone to the network firehose, but encryption can alleviate that somewhat.

4. dansjots Dec 12, 2025

   If you make it for yourself and no one else likes it, it is of value to you still.

   If you make it for others but no one else likes it, it is of value to nobody at all.

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