I'm looking for folks discussing the overall quality of open source software, either from the product, privacy, or design perspective. Any recommendations? Thank you in advance #ux#uxdesign#privacy#ProductManagement#foss#OpenSource
@scottjenson I am partial to various OpenBSD developers in such realms.
e.g. @stsp@jbauer@phessler@op@tedu@miodvallat@brynet (please donate to pizza fund so less hungry/homeless) @AFresh1@benno@djm but there are many more (I don't have them grouped/organized on the FediVerse, maybe I should do that?)
thanks grey but i tend to not write about code, never was a software engineer, just a guy who writes crappy proof of concept code. "oh! i see what you mean. you're code's crap but i see it now. cool!"
@jnazario never let it be said you have no humility! To paraphrase Josh Paetzel (bsdunix4ever elsewhere): "all software is beta" many never even get to a proof of concept stage! IMHO, polish and maintenance are almost completely different disciplines, closer to the Japanese concept of 改善(kaizen, roughly translated as: refinement, continual improvements).
@jnazario Almost no one nails it on a first try (Something like The Hobbit's netcat comes close as it was supposedly Hobbit's first program in C, but after how many years/decades of assembly coding beforehand?)
I first took a formal class in programming over 40 years ago.
I never got an Engineering degree, nor have I ever had "engineer" in a job title and I am OK with that (but then, I was also friends with oldcrow and the 06/17/03 rant I think was on point? From: http://www.oldcrows.net/rant.html ).
Nonetheless, when I think about matrixdump: I used to run that on a machine at work. While for example: https://github.com/matrix-org/gomatrix is more flashy, it's less functional.
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