How Tumblr has developed over time, the importance of continued attention by the developers, and the community consequences of seemingly minor features: https://kotaku.com/in-2018-tumblr-is-a-joyless-black-hole-1827294865
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The niche of short, environment-specific scripts, and the consequences for programming language design choices: https://brrt-to-the-future.blogspot.com/2021/03/why-bother-with-scripting.html
New version of difftastic is out!
* Fixed a nasty crash that was relatively common
* Minor display and performance fixes
https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/releases/tag/0.60.0
For hobby projects, I really like software where I can do small features or tweaks. Sometimes I don't have time for anything more substantial.
Website projects are great for this. Are there other areas?