This is something I see so much with people critiquing open projects.
“It has bad UX.” “It feels incomplete.”
Okay, cool. _How so_? There’s just under a million people using it currently. Like help us grow (unless that’s not your motive - just negative critique).
After having used Nix, Scheme, Bash and Tcl a lot, I still have a hard time having to add commas everywhere in Python.
Even after using it daily for months I still get annoyed at them, even though I seldom forget them. In oneliners I sometimes do things like [int(x) for x in "1 3 53 27 4 79".split(" ")]. Whitespace is a much neater separator.
At least I've finally stopped forgetting to use explicit return in functions.
Between DrRacket and Scribble, I am quite transfigured. The yak is clean shaved. This is everything I’ve ever wanted in a programming language but never known. It’s a little like love. 💕
It’s written in python/flask/vuejs and I need help because of health issues I’m unable to work a lot on it anymore, if you are interested to help me on some of the issues and more specially the ActivityPub part, you can contact me through:
I make #synthesizers and am very interested in #synthdiy. I made a big modular #synth from scratch and want to help others do the same. I like to dabble in code, especially where #technology and #music meet.
Not to be a dick, but has anyone received a @purism Librem 5 yet who isn’t either involved with the development or able to publish a review? Aka a normal person who paid for it? I’m really interested to see what those people think of the product they paid for three years ago. Seems like every time I see a “I got my Librem 5 today!” post it’s always from someone who either publishes reviews or helped develop it somehow.
Sometimes, I see tweets by such brilliant, complicated and wonderful people and I miss Birdland.
Then I remember actual thoughtful people on there are a minority group and Birdland leadership is just culling talent to steal their shit and sell it for its own benefit.
Yeah. I'm good. I just have to work harder to get those people over here.
It worries me that the free software community gets the "how" for making GPL-licensed federated equivalents to popular web services, but they rarely understand the "why".
This is evidenced when new services pop up with poor/missing moderation controls and no ability for users to downloading & migrate their data.
If users who don't or can't self-host are expected to swap one unaccountable group for another, and the community is no better, then there is no benefit to them for making the switch.
Do we still use Geoclue heavily on free desktops? I’ve been looking for something that could connect to my location server so I didn’t have to ping Mozilla for my current location (like I know where I am, lol). (https://v2.jacky.wtf//post/ac804cdd-0854-4b0f-9778-1ba3707793f0)