An open letter from independent app developers to the wider GNOME community

In our opinion, the goal of Hacker News (HN) is to find the highest quality submissions (according to its community) and show them on the front-page. While the current ranking algorithm seems to meet this requirement at first glance, we identified two inherent…

I love linters. A linter is a program that looks for problems in code without running it. There is something gratifying about running a linter on a codebase and seeing a big list of warnings and errors. Sometimes it can even be fun to fix them!

A hard look at the motivations for — and inevitable realities of — the Cult of Agile daily stand-up. This toxic workplace ritual is designed to demoralise engineers and perpetuate micromanagement. Stop doing them.

The 2,000-line poem by Scottish physician John Armstrong was written during a time of pandemic, war and increasing public disinformation. What can readers learn from it today?

Use the github.dev web-based editor from your repository or pull request to create and commit changes.

Until recently, a small Wikipedia edition said Dianne Feinstein was San Francisco's mayor. This project could help avoid that sort of out of date info.

RISC-V gets interest from a major player

My code doesn't compile. Why?

The number of times in my career I have been asked a variation on "why doesn't my application work" is shocking. When you meet up with Operations people for drinks, you'll hear endless variations on it. Application teams attempting…

Github Copilot Security Study: Developer Should Remain Awake as GitHub Copilot is Generating Insecure Code In 40% Of Experiments.

Take-Two Interactive has sued several enthusiasts said to be behind the popular re3 and reVC Grand Theft Auto fan projects.

Past, Present, and Future

Forthcoming software from the GP-Write consortium aims to make large-scale genome editing and design more accessible

Apple has delayed the rollout of the Child Safety Features that it announced last month following negative feedback, the company has today...