Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore — and I spent two years launching tiny projects

Issue #771 — May 19, 2022

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Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore rubenerd.com \| points: 612 \| comments: 209

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I spent two years launching tiny projects tinyprojects.dev \| points: 566 \| comments: 123

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Why billing systems are a nightmare for engineers getlago.com \| points: 447 \| comments: 243

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Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it ixns.github.io \| points: 429 \| comments: 393

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Please Stop Using Grey Text tangledweb.xyz \| points: 379 \| comments: 331

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Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals xn--rpa.cc \| points: 355 \| comments: 164

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NaturalSpeech: End-to-end text to speech synthesis with human-level quality speechresearch.github.io \| points: 348 \| comments: 141

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Accelerated PyTorch Training on M1 Mac pytorch.org \| points: 335 \| comments: 102

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Oauth2 support for GMail pmail.com \| points: 313 \| comments: 109

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Netflix lays off about 150 employees reuters.com \| points: 300 \| comments: 339

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Solar-powered desalination device wins MIT $100K competition news.mit.edu \| points: 278 \| comments: 145

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U.S. court rejects Tether’s bid to conceal reserve records from the public finbold.com \| points: 267 \| comments: 177

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How to feel engaged at work: a software engineer’s guide jasont.co \| points: 244 \| comments: 136

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Heroku CI and Review App Secrets Compromised news.ycombinator.com \| points: 240 \| comments: 85

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Python 3.11 beta vs. 3.10 benchmark github.com \| points: 234 \| comments: 117

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Thoughts on OKRs joeblu.com \| points: 224 \| comments: 128

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Plagiarized in a plagiarism atonement essay plagiarismtoday.com \| points: 211 \| comments: 179

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The Big Six Matrix Factorizations nhigham.com \| points: 209 \| comments: 64

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Sunset of libspotify developer.spotify.com \| points: 204 \| comments: 221

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Gimp 3 Beta Released gimp.org \| points: 204 \| comments: 139

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