Newsletter #8 - Making a C library available in Swift using the Swift Package Manager Nov 8 2019

Hello,

So glad that the weekend is here, time to relax. I found this post that you might find interesting. It is about the reason that 80x25 became the standard display.

There are many things we do out of habit and end up forgetting why we started doing them in the first place. One example in my case is that I try to always keep my commit messages in under 72 characters per line. I don’t claim to be 70 years old and got used to it by using IBM’s 3270. What happened is that I read this Tpope’s article on writing good git commit messages, where he explains the reason why 72 characters per line is the ideal. The relevant reason is this: