When programming.dev became practically unusable most of the time in the last several days I was considering moving elsewhere. No post or announcement even acknowledging the issue here in meta didn't make me hopeful in the issues subsiding at all. (I've experienced instance death before on feddit.de.)
It's intended to become a spiritual successor to ThiefMD.
What does it want to or already do different or better than ThiefMD?
I see the release has a flatpak. A Windows binary or installer would be great too, attached to the release, so it doesn't require cargo toolchain and build to use.
Wait. Does it even support Windows? I guess not? I read Rust and GTK and assumed it would.
At work, I don't have to work with node projects at all.
Outside of work, some drive-by contributions or where I contribute or would have liked to contribute. For example, on OpenTermsArchive, or the Nushell website (where it doesn't work with their vuepress, unfortunately).
What do you mean by "instead of watching"? OP links to a text article.
I still prefer your MDN link though. Concise, and a more readable layout. Dunno why OP felt the need to increase the font size that much into a wide layout.
I refuse to install nodejs on my personal PC. Too big, too pervasive, not observable. These tools, Deno and Bun, allow me to work on node/js/ts projects. At least, when they are compatible, which sadly they are not always.
When I explore or consider alternatives, I don't think of or ask myself about design principles, but consider and weigh what could and would make sense where I am.
More than principles, the guiding goal is Maintainability - Readability, Graspability, Consistency, Correctness, Robustness. Weighted against constraints.
I guess separation of concerns is a big one I use implicitly. Like many others.
This reads like such diffuse nothing-speak. "We will do less but remain committed." It's a contradiction. Doesn't help that one person gives a speech then the company makes clarifications which read like pulling back or lying/delaying about where leadership is pushing towards.
The article does a decent job exploring what it could mean.
Neither closed core nor malicious runtime-platform switches are in the spirit of open source, or can be called truly or fully open source.
They should have made a concrete plan first, and then announced and implemented that. But I guess we can be thankful we can see signs of where they may be headed, and that could push negative feedback or make people more cautious and aware of their practices and changes.
I've become disillusioned. After projects did not respond, not even with timely hacktoberfest-accepted labels on PRs, I don't consider it likely the investment will be used in the projects or attributed to me during Hacktoberfest. The last two times I participated, finding projects was quite the hassle too.
I enjoyed the early years. I got shirts, which are my favorite shirts. Great fabric.
This could prevent the developer verification from coming to reality.
This is about the Epic Games court case regarding competing app stores and payment processors, not the Google developer registration requirement. A halt on previous rulings in the case was denied.
… requires Google to allow users to download rival app stores within its Play store and make Play's app catalog available to competitors. Those provisions do not take effect until July 2026.
… Google must allow developers to include external links in apps, enabling users to bypass Google's billing system. That part of the injunction is due to take effect later this month.
Interesting. I'm definitely missing a decent PDF editor.
Looks like they support a lot of PDF features, but not PDF 2.0 yet.
I was also interested in what underlying PDF library they are using. Looks like their own library is part of the project or if not, based on Qt if they provide anything.
The licensing is a bit confusing. The website talks about being LGPL, then about goal of being more permissive then GPL, but in the repository README, it talks about how the project was relicensed from LGPL to MIT, and license file is MIT. Seems like it was just the website intro missing an update. So: MIT.
In what way is this !programming@programming.dev? I don't think "I made this" should quality, or we would lose programming focus/scope of the community. This would be a better fit in gamedev or gaming or personal project communities.
The comment claimed "alternative to GitHub". I pointed out that it's an alternative for only a subset of use cases/projects. Without that clarification, someone may explore or follow through and be disappointed.
When programming.dev became practically unusable most of the time in the last several days I was considering moving elsewhere. No post or announcement even acknowledging the issue here in meta didn't make me hopeful in the issues subsiding at all. (I've experienced instance death before on
feddit.de.)Great to see this development.
Thank you for your continued work and efforts! 👍