Those video lectures changed the way I think about programming and I soon found Clojure after watching them!

Googling can also help you learn what is idiomatic for that programming language and/or framework regardless of what problem you are solving.

Torvalds wrote git because he was frustrated with the existing tools of the day. The Linux codebase was stored in CVS and code changes were introduced via patches that were emailed directly to Linus. It's important to note that git was designed to replace CVS and not email patches. Git is designed to support the sharing of commits over email. As others have pointed out; communication between developers is critical, git enables this like no tool that came before it ...and also branching!

I'm not sure if this is my lived experience but it was certainly an entertaining read 🤣

Small commits (without squashing) makes for a more effective 'git bisect', should you ever need to trace a bug down to a single commit. Note that every commit should pass the project's test suite. There's nothing sweeter than tracing a regression down to a single line of code using git bisect!

I use backbone on existing projects and will do on future projects. The reason is more a philosophical one, I agree with their principles and where my philosophy forks it is dead easy to fork the code.