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We have a new post up on the BRIC newsletter about how we're using tools like Docker Desktop to solve some problems specific to science: sharing your work with other researchers to replicate, and navigating getting the software running in the first place when each institution is different.

bric.digital/newsletter/contai

The BRIC Newsletter · Containerized ScienceAn introduction to how BRIC is using software containerization in the service of science.

Why are developers obsessed with putting ticket IDs in the subject line (first line) of a commit message?

Things like:
"[FCK-123] Make some change"

Or like:
"Make another change (#123)"

In what use cases is this superior to keeping them at the very bottom of the commit message? And once they are there, why not have a full link to the issue tracker?

Like:

"Make some change

Explain more...

xttps://github.com/team/project/issues/123
"

Today I received my first pull request fixing a small bug on a piece of software I do maintain. That was a really special moment to me.

I felt really happy that someone did show interested in one of my projects and took the time to fix a issue with the current implementation. Hopefully it will improve the piece of software will improve the workflow of others as well.