The Smalltalk Blue Book https://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook.pdf is great (introduces the language, explains usage) but also has this cute mouse explanation!
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@krinkle@mastodon.technology I don't know of anyone using difftastic by default, including me! (I use it >50% of the time though.)
I toyed with background colours but I didn't find anything that I really liked. Contrast is hard, and depends on the user's theme.
Background colours look bad with syntax highlighting (e.g. red background with blue comment text).
It also looked silly due to ignoring whitespace between symbols.
It's an interesting space and I'm still experimenting :)
My new go-to placeholder CSS colour is `teal`. It's way less garish than red or blue, and it's short to type.
Backdoored versions of popular software being distributed on GitHub: https://www.zdnet.com/article/researchers-uncover-ring-of-github-accounts-promoting-300-backdoored-apps/
Perhaps it's only a matter time before we see blue checkmarks on repos? I suppose the star count does help distinguish real repos.