When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.
These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this
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@thomasfuchs And Nadella wants us to stop calling this slop 🤷♂️
@thomasfuchs $ alias morge="git merge"
@thomasfuchs $ alias morge="git merge"
@thomasfuchs "The Dyslexia of Graphics"
@thomasfuchs you know what this reminds me of? i collect random bootleg items and often times they use flavor text stolen from other things, and then retyped manually by people who don't speak english. so you end up with shit like this:
@thomasfuchs @edeverett Best diagram to explain “continvoucly morging” IMHO
@thomasfuchs The “Time”(?) axis is labelled “Tiꦟ”…?
@thomasfuchs They changed the image on the site, but it’s still available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20260216165612/https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-flow
Omg i was so confused until I read the alt-text
@thomasfuchs what the actual fuck is that! rhetorical question of course, we all know what it is, it is a pile of crap.
@thomasfuchs Does the existence of pictures like this indicate how most people never try to read and understand charts?
When this exists, they will never learn that it's worth making the effort :(
"What do you call yourselves?"
"The Aristocrats"
I'm going to be morging my changes back to the develop branch from now on!
@thomasfuchs appears to have been silently replaced within the last ~10 minutes, i just opened the page again to grab a screenshot and there's a new diagram where that one was
@thomasfuchs if I were @nvie I'd partner up with an attorney specialised in copyright and sue the f**k out of them
@thomasfuchs I've always wondered how plumbuses were made
@thomasfuchs even gitflow is too complicated for most projects, and that doesn't even involve morging
@thomasfuchs When did they release this? And what's Tim up to? I guess he's past the top of the chart? I have enough trouble understanding these when they are well formatted, but um, what's Tim doing up, and arrows pointing down?
@thomasfuchs This looks like a derivative of the original, which I believe is here: https://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/git-flow/
@fahrni
I was just going to post that version - it's stuck in my memory. I can't tell why they even tried to change it? What led to this crazy fuckup? Who ok-ed it?
@thomasfuchs
@fahrni thank you for that link. i was wondering how Tim was involved with any of this @thomasfuchs
@thomasfuchs I love continvoucal integration, i can just morg my featues without worries
@lmorchard only timn will tell if that works
@thomasfuchs did they just take the original (https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/) and run it through an image generator?
@thomasfuchs the longer I look the worse it gets. “Tim” had me laughing but then I looked at where they put release branches and how they ordered the tags… I am so confused.
@thomasfuchs What letter is that? 😜
@bplein If you're lost, you can look and you will find me
Timn after Timn
@thomasfuchs @bplein There should be a passionate Karaoke over this
@thomasfuchs this is what happens when you1 feed git-flow and github's own docs through a plagiarism machine.
microslop ↩︎
I have so many question right now.
Did... anyone at Microsoft approve this chart? How come they didn't notice so many glaring errors that produced by AI?
@NovemDecimal the technical term for this is “not giving a shit”
@thomasfuchs @NovemDecimal They only look at the page count. I've put recipes for making a chocolate cake in the middle of a large, dumb, mandated document and nobody ever noticed.
@thomasfuchs first time I committed the feedback form over there. Like really, wtf‽ Hopefully it will be read by an actual person not another stupid micro$lop AI agent.
@thomasfuchs literally yesterday I found that domain (learn.microsoft.com) and out of curiosity just clicked: in the first second I got a vídeo with an AI generated character, and closed that tab. Enshittification at its best.
@thomasfuchs Automating contemptuous degradation!
@thomasfuchs so much of this "article" is factually incorrect. Literally bottom of the barrel slop.
"A commit is a change to one or more files on a branch."
@paulshryock the weird things is that GitHub already has guides for this https://github.com/git-guides/git-commit
@thomasfuchs what is Tim doing on the left side?
@thomasfuchs I still have that book, probably bought it at the same time as you.
As to the graph, I bet the severe bug was a side effect of that branching.
I think it's a haiku and they wanted to stretch the sillable count so they made up a word. It's a mood thing, a-la jabberwocky.
Bugfix from rel, branch
Continvoucly morged back
into development
All jokes aside continvouclious development is all the rage these days.
Well, first you need two bottles of industrial lube, a goose, and a bag of pretzels.