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Git Patch Stack 7.0.0

by Drew De Ponte ‐ 17 min read

A deep dive about the 7.0.0 release of Git Patch Stack and how it differs from previous versions.

Pullwalla - More Workflows

by Drew De Ponte ‐ 3 min read

Hello! We just released v3.7.0 (51) of Pullwalla to both macOS and iOS platforms. Quick Filters One of Pullwalla's primary goals has been to help people quickly discover the pull requests they are interested in. Quick Filters continue to be a key mec…

Git Patch Stack Goals

by Drew De Ponte ‐ 9 min read

An exploration of the goals and intent behind the Git Patch Stack project.

Git Workflows

by Drew De Ponte ‐ 19 min read

An exploration of the Feature Branch, Classic Continuous Integration, Stacked Branch, and the Patch Stack workflows.

Inversion of Control

by Drew De Ponte ‐ 16 min read

An exploration of Inversion of Control and I think about it and I how I identify control flow code and Inversion of Control opportunities.

Making Code Reusable

by Drew De Ponte ‐ 6 min read

An exploration of how we can make code more reusable.

Journey to Small Pull Requests

by Drew De Ponte ‐ 16 min read

We were struggling to deal with our pull requests. We weren't getting quality peer reviews from our peers, we were having a hard time reverting commits when necessary, and had a hard time understanding our Git history. So we decided to dig into this …

SwiftUI: Composable Button Styles

by Drew De Ponte ‐ 4 min read

One frustrating/annoying things about SwiftUI Buttons for me has been the mechanism for styling them. In order to get information about the state of the button (e.g. if it is pressed, not pressed) you have to build a struct that implements the Button…

How we should be using Git

by Drew De Ponte ‐ 27 min read

Git was created by Linus Torvalds out of a need. At the time the Linux Kernel team was using a proprietary Distributed Source Control Management (DSCM) system. However, due to licensing issues the Linux Kernel team could no longer use this proprietar…

Pullwalla - A New Era

by Drew De Ponte ‐ 2 min read

Woot woot! The first couple releases of the year are out 🎉. These releases include major features as well as important bug fixes. iOS Pullwalla iOS has always helped you discover and examine pull requests you want to review across all your accounts &…