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I'm prototyping HTML output from difftastic, and I'm really excited about the initial results. I can provide full syntax highlighting with HTML (in both changed and unchanged regions), and I can have multiple levels of transparency to highlight the changed syntactic elements!

Badges to Acknowledge Open Practices: A Simple, Low-Cost, Effective Method for Increasing Transparency https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002456 'Open Data' badges on scientific papers hugely increased the amount of open data. Reminds me of READMEs with testing badges!

Swift is exploring a cute idea for library transparency: you can distinguish between "this ABI is guaranteed to keep working" and "I want an extra layer of indirection so I can add to data structures without breaking downstream users". https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-library-evolution-for-stable-abis/23026