Conciseness July 26, 2022 on Drew DeVault's blog

Conciseness is often considered a virtue among hackers and software engineers. FOSS maintainers in particular generally prefer to keep bug reports, questions on mailing lists, discussions in IRC channels, and so on, close to the point and with minimal faff. It’s not considered impolite to skip the formalities — quite the opposite. So: keep your faffery to a minimum. A quick “thanks!” at the end of a discussion will generally suffice. And, when someone is being direct with you, don’t interpret it as a slight: simply indulge in the blissful freedom of a discussion absent of faffery.

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hare-update assists in addressing breaking changes in your code

We’re working on a new tool to release along the next upcoming stable release of Hare (likely Hare 0.25.2, or 0.25.3, following our release policy) – hare-update. The coming Hare release includes a number of small breaking changes, as per usual during Hare’s…

via Blogs on The Hare programming language June 11, 2025

Open Source: Deceptive Power or Collective Governance?

In October 2024, it emerged that WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg has extensive power over the entire WordPress ecosystem, which 43% of all websites on the internet run on. When he exercised this power by seizing control of code that runs on tens of thou…

via Vlad's Website June 6, 2025

Summary of changes for May 2025

Hey everyone!This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May. 100r.co, updated Oquonie and water. Modal, the interpreter was ported to Uxn! Uxntal, the documentation has been completely redone! Hakum, added p…

via Hundred Rabbits May 31, 2025