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The site that got me into programming as a teenager was called "FromZero" and explained how to write programs in C for non-developpers. From installing the IDE, to how to open the console, it carefully explained each step, sometimes saying "don't worry about Snarfus, we'll get into that later". It was amazing, and I owe this website my career.

That being said, I agree writing doc is time consuming and it might not be your priority, in this case partial docs is better than no docs at all. But if your target is beginner developpers, imo you should consider them as non-developpers, as you correctly descibed them.

It seems you're all missing the point here: it's not about storing useless data, it's about destroying the environment in the process. I understand you all want to keep everything, just in case, because it's cheap and you don't see the externalities. But there are externalities, and they are big.

It won't change much if only small groups of citizens starts taking individual action to mitigate their environment footprint. But I strongly believe that it is nonetheless a mandatory step towards global awareness.

It is not "the magical solution", but I don't see any solution that don't starts with individuals taking action to start trends.

Political action will start only when the people electing government starts caring. And that starts by individuals convincing the others.

Now you are staring into the big bang in all its glory; make sure to wear safety squints.

Wait what? That's not true right? All the light we see is concentrated in one point but it's not really the big bang that we see, it's an illusion, is that correct?

You are correct, and this highlights the biggest challenge of our time (in my opinion): people are not ready to make compromises on their lifestyle, even if it is proven that this lifestyle is unsustainable and threatens the future of humanity.

A good reminder that when you want to be anonymous on the internet, don't use any email / username / ip adress that can be linked back to you.

It's quite easy to create a throwaway email and send your review from a public wi-fi.

I first thought it was some kind of april fool's joke. Many people who care about climate change are taking their bike to go to work, or avoiding taking a plane for their holidays, and then there's this. I am genuinely shocked.

A developer at GH made the same mistake. It clearly means the UI is not working the way intended.

On one hand, there's a UI change GitHub could implement that would greatly prevent this situation from happening again. On the other hand, one could try warn every github users that this situation can happen and to be carefull... Well I have my opinion on which would be most effective.