🎁 Main Branch: The One With the Prize Winners

Hiya friends,

It’s the last Monday of 2025. Whether you’re catching up on sleep, dodging relatives’ questions about your job, fixing everyones wifi or devices or sneaking in some side project time, I’m keeping this one short.

🏆 We Have Winners

Back in Issue #4, I promised a giveaway for hitting 100 subscribers. Well, we did it, and now it’s time to announce the winners.

• First 100 Subscriber Giveaway: ersinkoc
• All Subscriber Giveaway: bogdan

If you were one of my first 100 subscribers, you had two shots at this. Thanks for being here early and betting on a newsletter about developer fundamentals.

I’ll be reaching out to winners directly. If that’s you, check your inbox.

✨ This Week

Honest question: are you team rest or team hustle during the holidays?

I’m trying to be team rest, but my brain keeps wandering to code I want to write. And the extra credits for what feels like most things, is making it hard to unplug.

Hit reply and tell me which camp you’re in. I’m genuinely curious.

See you next year.

Andrea

P.S. — Stop stashing. Use Git worktrees.

Mid-feature and need to check another branch? Create a worktree instead of losing context.

git worktree add ../my-project-main main
cd ../my-project-main
# Do your thing
git worktree remove ../my-project-main

Three commands. Same Git history, separate folders. Works great for AI tools that run tasks in parallel too.