Recently I found this developer who has published dozens of small, useful extensions for firefox. Nothing groundbreaking that I know of but everything looks to have been made with care to efficiency and minimal permissions to do one thing well. Each has its own github repo where the developer responds to issues....
The new #github based on #react is an abject failure to improve the user experience. On every count it is objectively worse than previous iterations.
Page load time is poor, interactivity is gated seemingly on very large JS loads. Initial page layout is broken on mobile and randomly resizes the width of the viewport after loading. The number of micro-annoyances seem to be adding up daily.
This is like an object lesson in what not to do to your successful webapp.
Do you have a project on GitHub? Does it use GitHub Pages for documentation or other purposes? Would you like to archive a copy of those GitHub pages in the Internet Archive automatically whenever you release a new version?
I wrote Waystation, a simple and free GitHub Action, exactly for this purpose:
#Stract is a new, #opensource, #nonprofit#search engine. It has a lot of interesting functions. For example, users can exclude known copycat sites from search queries, focus on indie blogs, or do fediverse search only.
> "Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot."
Look, I respect the heck out of the technical implementation of LLMs, but let's be honest: statistically they produce average code at best and misunderstood/invalid code most often. They re-implement old bugs and obfuscate programmer intent and anyone who is leaning on them for more than a pair assist is making software harder for the rest of us.
#NotOnGitHub: Tell us about your favourite #OpenSource / #FreeSoftware projects that are not available on mainstream platforms, whether on a self-hosted cgit or available as an archive download only.
"The source code to yet another classic video game has just been released online, thanks to a combined effort between 3DO fans and the original developers....
The #GitHub#Copilot announcement makes sense when you realize that this positions Microsoft even further to monetize the act of #coding itself.
When you handicap #developers and make them so dependent on LLMs to write code, that (eventually) they no longer know how to do so without it, then suddenly the days of working in a free editor are over.
That probably don’t make sense to a lot of people, and I need to think about it more
But here’s the basics of it
The CVE data is so comically bad, nobody actually doing #vulnerability work can use it. The ID is all we use. We have to look in other databases and collect or own facts
Automated tools rely on sources like #GitHub, #GitLab, and #OSV. Other than the ID, CVE doesn’t really matter anymore
💡 Today is a perfect day to exercise your independence from #BigTech, and #GiveUpGitHub.
☣️ #GitHub is the equivalent of #Twitter and #Facebook for software development -- creators of the most enticing proprietary walled garden ever made for #FOSS developers.
Don't be stuck with Microsoft decides to change the rules on you.
If you use firefox, check out these 55 single-function addons to improve life (all same dev; not me)
Recently I found this developer who has published dozens of small, useful extensions for firefox. Nothing groundbreaking that I know of but everything looks to have been made with care to efficiency and minimal permissions to do one thing well. Each has its own github repo where the developer responds to issues....
The Source Code To Star Fighter 3DO Has Been Released Online -- Time Extension (www.timeextension.com)
"The source code to yet another classic video game has just been released online, thanks to a combined effort between 3DO fans and the original developers....