I was migrating an #Android project to #Gradle 8 at work. It was painful and underestimated. But the weekends are more pleasant after such a shitstorm at the end of the week. Happy weekend everyone!
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@bsletten I’m mentoring my kid. He wants to become a professional software developer and quickly learning that it’s not just about “coding.” Also, it’s teaching me new things along the way.
#software #development #teaching #learning
Coding is like taking a lump of clay and slowly working it into the thing you want it to become. It is this process, and your intimacy with the medium and the materials you’re shaping, that teaches you about what you’re making – its qualities, tolerances, and limits – even as you make it. You know the least about what you’re making the moment before you actually start making it. That’s when you think you know what you want to make. The process, which is an iterative one, is what leads you towards understanding what you actually want to make, whether you were aware of it or not at the beginning. Design is not merely about solving problems; it’s about discovering what the right problem to solve is and then solving it. Too often we fail not because we didn’t solve a problem well but because we solved the wrong problem.
When you skip the process of creation you trade the thing you could have learned to make for the simulacrum of the thing you thought you wanted to make. Being handed a baked and glazed artefact that approximates what you thought you wanted to make removes the very human element of discovery and learning that’s at the heart of any authentic practice of creation. Where you know everything about the thing you shaped into being from when it was just a lump of clay, you know nothing about the image of the thing you received for your penny from the vending machine.
February may be the shortest month, but the Thunderbird desktop team filled it with updates, improvements, and important conversations. Including:
* What you can find in the new monthly Release channel
* Talks on privacy and security
* What's landed in the Calendar rebuild work and in EWS support on Daily
* The new Account Hub, which you can test this week in Daily!
* Global Message Database and In-App Notification news
#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Development
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/03/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-february-2025/
The Thunderbird Blog · Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest - February 2025 - The Thunderbird BlogMonthly releases are here, the Calendar UI rebuild is underway, more Exchange support features land in Daily - and much more!
In the latest issue of the Intellectual Property Forum, Dr Olugbenga A Olatunji has written a generous review of our Edward Elgar Publishing collection on intellectual property and the sustainable development goals edited by Bita Amani Caroline B Ncube and myself - 'An in-depth exposition of the 17 sustainable development goals (“SDGs”) adopted in 2015 through the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 (“UN SDA”). Across 25 chapters, seasoned intellectual property scholars appraise the stage of implementation of these SDGs with particular emphasis on the cataclysmic role that IP plays in slowing down implementation.' #IP #SDGs #development #sustainabledevelopment https://lnkd.in/g--Zpqz4
GitLab CFO, Brian Robins, says they are “aligned with the goals of DOGE, because the company’s software tools aim to help people do more with less. What the Department of Government Efficiency is trying to do is what GitLab does.”
You either support fascism or you don’t. It’s binary. There’s no gray area or “aligning.”
Considering GitLab? Don’t. Use @Codeberg.
(Hat tip @aphyr)
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Andy is only publishing his games on F-Droid and not the Google Play Store from now on, and he tells us why.
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I would not start my own Fedi site, but I would buy Fosstodon, just so people who enjoy Foss Projects, could enjoy following Foss Projects.
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Both Fosstodon and Mastdon Art, have to be moderated by ex-Reddit mods.
They blacklist so many damn Fedi sites, that they nearly defeat the purpose of the Fediverse.
Fosstodon really pisses me off.
Anytime I try to move to a Fedi site, I have to double-check to see if that site ACTUALLY connect to Fosstodon.
They're nearly as bad a Mastodon Art.
You do not, make the Fediverse, fun.
Waller County has approved a tax abatement agreement with Tesla for its proposed 1,500-employee battery factory in Brookshire, a town west of Houston.
The web was always about redistribution of power. Let's bring that back. via @ben #Development #Webdev #Tech #Socialmedia
Many of us got excited about technology because of the web, and are discovering, latterly, that it was always the web itself — rather than technology as a whole — that we were excited about. The web is a movement: more than a set of protocols, languages, and software, it...
https://werd.io/2025/the-web-was-always-about-redistribution-of-power-lets-bring
Werd I/OThe web was always about redistribution of power. Let's bring that back.It's time to rekindle the movement.
If I could pay someone to extend the Mastodon source code with some sort of subscription management in order to enable instance admins to provide an easy way for their instance dwellers to financially contribute who should I ask, and what would be a reasonable price to develop it?
Perhaps integrate initially with a few "ethical" payment providers?
Purpose: Create incentives and tools to help people pay for their Fediverse experience.
Alternatives to US tech platforms #Development #Webdev #Tech #Politics #Socialmedia
With the US rapidly devolving into a failed state with the endorsement (both full-throated and tepid) of many tech leaders, I’d urge you to reconsider your use of any tech platforms and tools offered by companies based here. Donating to a fascist’s inauguration isn’t a shrewd business decision, it’s a demonstration that you’re...
https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/alternatives-to-us-tech-platforms
Last week we had our first! Thunderbird + Rust office hours with our back-end developer @brendan and Sr. DevRel Engineer @linuxflower giving us a great introduction to the past, present, and future of oxidization in Thunderbird. Watch the recording on our @tilvids channel and find out how to get involved!
"Many bugfixes" (with no list following) is my favourite part in changelogs.
Because it's a two words long detective story.
The sheer number of questions it raises can keep users entertained for weeks.
Like:
- which bugs were fixed?
- which bugs were promoted to features?
- did anyone even read MY bug reports?
- were bugs, which I've reported, fixed?
- and do developers actually know what they're doing?
Don't write changelogs like that.
#ux #it #development #gamedev #detective #sus #af #idiocy
Friends. I’m honored to be part of a team who is archiving data being targeted by fascists: science, health, DEI, climate…all of it.
It’s exhausting, mentally psychologically. But totally worth it.
What @lavaeolus began is now a thriving group effort. There’s a core group of us working feverishly, but anyone is welcome to join us.
Learn how you can get involved:
https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/t/how-to-contribute/308
Safeguarding Research & Culture (SRC) — Distributing Cultural Memory · How to contribute ✊You read our mission-statement at About - Safeguarding Research & Culture (SRC) ? And you want to contribute? How to Participate
I just unleashed the full power of RSS feeds in #Vernissage - now they cover practically every timeline! And honestly? I’m pretty thrilled. I never expected browsing photos this way could be so intriguing. It’s a whole new, completely different user experience. #development #swift
Quick tip for #mobile #app #developers; sudden sounds are a real problem for users, especially on application startup. Software should only make sound when a user takes an explicit action, e.g. pressing play on a video. You don't know the current user context every time someone starts your app so err on the side of caution and stay quiet. #development #MobileApps