250: Stuff, Things, WIP: Commit Messages

Do commit messages even matter anymore, or did pull requests kill them? Ben works one commit per PR and thinks the commit message is the PR description. Carol and Tim put all the context in the PR and treat commits as disposable breadcrumbs. Adam's somewhere in between — when he's not pushing thirty knife emojis and "nope, still not working" to QA. Meanwhile, Tim's back from emergency eye surgery with a gas bubble floating around his eyeball. Links Ben Nadel's Blog Conventional Commits Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Thursday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .

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250: Stuff, Things, WIP: Commit Messages is an episode from Working Code by Adam Tuttle, Ben Nadel, Carol Hamilton, Tim Cunningham.

This episode is 47:32 long.

This episode was published on Mar 6, 2026.

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