Quantifying Gnome contributions by frequency, tenure, and affiliated companies:
https://hpjansson.org/blag/2020/12/16/on-the-graying-of-gnome/
Whilst the methodology can't be perfect, it's a nice way of measuring contribution trends.
miniblog.
I've been tinkering with some garbage collection approaches for a toy language.
Comparing refcounting with mark-and-sweep, the latter seems less error-prone. 'Values in list X but not in Y' is less scary to implement than 'every incref should have a decref'. Agree/disagree?
Fleck is a Clojure-ish lisp inside bash, based on the Make-A-Lisp (MAL) project!
MAL is a really fun project to play with, but this is the first time I've seen someone build a project on top of it.
https://github.com/chr15m/flk
On livestreaming programming: https://numenta.com/blog/2019/05/14/numenta-live-streaming-research-meetings-on-twitch/
"Conventional commits" https://www.conventionalcommits.org/ encourages a convention of prefixing your commit messages with e.g. "fix: problem", "feat: button".
I've been playing with it, and it's really nice to easily see what features/fixes happened since the last release.
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