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Oct 27, 2014 at 22:06
Only one of the five most downloaded Emacs themes has screenshots on its web pages / GitHub page. Thank goodness for http://t.co/xkvHghLdIl

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Jan 22, 2026 at 20:11
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The vast majority of libraries have a single maintainer. Even if you weight by downloads, roughly half of downloaded libraries have a single maintainer too.
Open Source is one person
Open Source is one person
The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is getting beat up now to score some internet points. It’s very upsetting. But anyway, let’s look at some receipts. If you’re not real smrt, it seems like pointing out an open source project is written by one person in a country you don’t like is a bad thing. It could be. But it also could be the software running THE WHOLE F*CKING PLANET is written by one person. In a country. But we have no idea which country. It’s not the same person mind you, but it’s one person.
May 20, 2023 at 08:08
GitHub tracks download counts for releases, so I can see that macOS releases of difftastic downloaded are downloaded much less frequently! I don't know if it's proportional to usage though. All these operating systems have several package managers.
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Aug 6, 2019 at 22:17
It's weird how smartphone game design has converged on certain features. I downloaded Tetris (Blitz) and I could spend money on in-game currency, it had daily challenges, and even XP! I'm not sure how much this relates to revenue vs users just preferring this design.