How to delete all squash-merged local git branches with one terminal command
I wrote a new bash script. And you probably shouldn't use it.
Salma Alam-Naylor
United Kingdom
Salma writes code for your entertainment. She specialises in streaming live coding, and loves helping people get into tech. After a career as a music teacher and comedian, Salma transitioned to technology in 2014, working as a front end developer and tech lead for startups, agencies and global e-commerce. Active in the developer community, Salma is a GitHub Star, Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies, winner of the Jamstack Conf Community Creator Award 2021, and a partnered Twitch streamer where she builds weird websites, roasts your code, and chats about the tech industry every week. She'll also try to make you laugh with tech jokes.
Community Contributions
Why is CSS ::first-letter not working?
I had some misconceptions about this sneaky pseudo element.
Why Women in Tech isn’t enough
Real progress needs systemic change and active involvement from men in positions of power.
Why visual programming didn't take off
Step into 1995: when the web got images, JavaScript, and visual dev tools. This is how it all began, where it went wrong, and how it's still going wrong today.
The promise that wasn't kept (by AI)
AI has always promised to help people spend more time doing valuable work by automating the manual, repetitive, toilsome tasks so that software developers can be free to use their time on ‘something better. Despite this, the 2024 State of DevOps report states that “individuals are reporting a decrease in the amount of time they spend doing valuable work as AI adoption increases”. The maths isn’t mathsing.
The promise that wasn't kept
AI is distracting us from creating real value. While we chase speed and automation, meaningful and human-centered work is getting left behind. Is this progress?
The experience is enough
I wrote about how you can gain a lot from the experience of going to conferences.
It wasn't the idea that failed, it was the execution
Step into 1995: when the web got images, JavaScript, and visual dev tools. This is how it all began, where it went wrong, and how it's still going wrong today.
