+++
title = "Commented Links for 2020-06-18"
date = 2020-06-18

[taxonomies]
tags = ["links", "git", "commit", "messages", "ansible", "cli", 
"feature flags", "rust", "size", "task manager"]
+++

Commit Messages (again), Ansible, CLI Names, Feature Flags, Rust Binary Sizes,
Mongo with Rust, Command Line Task Manager.

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## [How to write good Git commit messages](https://altcampus.io/blog/how-to-write-good-git-commit-message)

About a month ago, I shared a link describing how to make proper commit
messages, and this post talks a bit further about -- and it also cites some of
stuff I usually miss when I need to do some code review.

## [Ansible: Tasks vs Roles vs Handlers](https://roelofjanelsinga.com/articles/ansible-difference-between-tasks-and-roles)

Another "I shared something like that before" link, this one focuses on
Ansible itself instead of some other configuration tool. Although not deep, it
explain most of Ansible "surface" content.

## [The Poetics of CLI Command Names](https://smallstep.com/blog/the-poetics-of-cli-command-names/)

So you decided to create your own command line application to learn a new
language. Congratulations. But the success of your tool depends (partially) on
the name of it and how you consider the "mystic" behind it.

I don't fully agree with some points, though. For example, claiming `cfdisk`
was a bad choice for a curses `fdisk`; `fdisk` is well known, and using the
same name as a part of the new name shows that shows that it is a different
version and also gives information to whoever knows `fdisk` what this
application does. Same case: `top` and `htop`.

## [What Are Feature Flags?](https://launchdarkly.com/blog/what-are-feature-flags/)

Before I changed projects, we had a discussion about the way the projects were
using feature flags. 

Although not discussed here, I do believe that feature flags should, at some
point, be removed, either by the team when a feature goes into full
availability or moved to a user configuration. But it *needs* to get out of
hands of the developers at some point and not live forever as a flag.

## [How to minimize Rust binary size](https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust)

Not that Rust binaries are big -- at least, in release -- but there is always
someone complaining, specially when compared to binaries created in other
languages whose binaries are not static.

But it is always good to have a set of tips on how to reduce them, just in
case.

## [Announcing our Rust Driver: Version 1.0](https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/announcing-rust-driver-version-1)

Still on Rust news, MongoDB, the company, released their official driver for
MonogDB, the database, in Rust.

One thing that I must say, reading the announcement, is how nice it plays with
the existing ecosystem, supporting the top async frameworks and the
serialization framework. A truly "play nice with everything" by the
description.

## [unfog-cli: A simple task & time manager, written in Haskell.](https://github.com/unfog-io/unfog-cli)

I have a personal project for a long time to create a command line version of
[Toggl](https://toggl.com/), but it seems someone had the same idea and did
the project already.