Git Good

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S1E25 14:18 2026-02-21

The AI That Cleaned My Repos

A Swedish developer with 32 Git repos discovered 4 had zero backups and half contained uncommitted work — until an AI audit revealed how solo developers actually use version control.

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S1E1 14:31 2026-02-21

The Copy-Paste Catastrophe

In the 1980s, programmers filled folders with files named project final version two John's edits — until one wrong character in the wrong copy nearly crashed an airplane, sparking a two-decade hunt for a better way to track code.

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S1E24 18:28 2026-02-21

The Education Problem

Fifteen million developers have panicked over the same Git question — here's why the tool everyone uses daily remains mysteriously broken to those who depend on it.

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S1E3 29:45 2026-02-21

The Linux Kernel Crisis of 2005

In March 2005, Andrew Morton was processing hundreds of kernel patches daily by email — and the system was about to break.

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S1E19 25:35 2026-02-21

Trust and the Supply Chain

On March 29, 2024, engineer Andres Freund noticed SSH logins were half a second slower than normal — and uncovered a deliberate backdoor hidden inside a compression library trusted by millions.

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