1st August 2024
TIL
Back-dating Git commits based on file modification dates
— I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole this morning. In trying to figure out [where the idea of celebrating World Wide Web Day on August 1st](https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/1/august-1st-world-wide-web-day/) came from I ran across Tim Berner-Lee's original code for the WorldWideWeb application for NeXT on the W3C's website:
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