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[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 26 points 1 day ago

A relatively uncommon but reasonable, good approach to issue management.

Discussions allow for different formats, including explicit voting, which is useful for things like feature requests.

 

Users are not allowed to create Issues directly in this repository - we ask that you create a Discussion first.

Unlike some other projects, Ghostty does not use the issue tracker for discussion or feature requests. Instead, we use GitHub discussions for that. Once a discussion reaches a point where a well-understood, actionable item is identified, it is moved to the issue tracker. This pattern makes it easier for maintainers or contributors to find issues to work on since every issue is ready to be worked on.

This approach is based on years of experience maintaining open source projects and observing that 80-90% of what users think are bugs are either misunderstandings, environmental problems, or configuration errors by the users themselves. For what's left, the majority are often feature requests (unimplemented features) and not bugs (malfunctioning features). Of the features requests, almost all are underspecified and require more guidance by a maintainer to be worked on.

Any Discussion which clearly identifies a problem in Ghostty and can be confirmed or reproduced will be converted to an Issue by a maintainer, so as a user finding a valid problem you don't do any extra work anyway. Thank you.

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago

Video shows them opening the hackaday website and pressing “accept all” on the “share and sell personal data with and to third parties” dialog. 🙈

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just gotta close it off on both ends<===>

(parens for round ends didn't look good)

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[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

I don't get what your bridge example is supposed to show, nor what normalizing substandard practice has to do with politics or lack thereof.

Depending on where you look there's plenty of shoddy construction work and cutting corners for cost, big projects are notorious for taking longer and costing more in the end. Construction had more time to develop and be regulated, and has more physical limitations compared to software development. Both, in the end, can be (theoretically) held accountable before court.

is to be able to communicate this effectively with management

Isn't this politics? Why are you saying politics has no place in engineering principles?

Software engineers are much more replaceable than construction engineers/architects, both in-discipline and with less expertise.

I do my part in what I can influence and control, delivering good and sound products, but it's obvious depending on individuality doesn't work across our whole industry.

/edit: The linked article talks about how in-company politics are necessary to coordinate and deliver features. I don't see that addressed here either? How would you deliver - taking the example from the article - Latex in Markdown on GitHub without politics?

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

And link to the project homepage, not the release note. Or maybe both.

Did you open the link? The release notes have a project description, not just a change log.

 

On January 1, 2026, GitHub will reduce the price of GitHub-hosted runners by up to 39% depending on the machine type used. The free usage minute quotas will remain the same.

On March 1, 2026, GitHub will introduce a new $0.002 per minute GitHub Actions cloud platform charge that will apply to self-hosted runner usage. Any usage subject to this charge will count toward the minutes included in your plan, as explained in our GitHub Actions billing documentation.

Runner usage in public repositories will remain free. There will be no changes in price structure for GitHub Enterprise Server customers.

We are increasing our investment into our self-hosted experience to ensure that we can provide autoscaling for scenarios beyond just Linux containers.

Historically, self-hosted runner customers were able to leverage much of GitHub Actions’ infrastructure and services at no cost.

 

This talk focuses on that evil little term “UX/UI,” which is responsible for so much confusion and tension in open-source projects. Not only does it unnecessarily pit programmers against designers, but it also limits our vision of what we could be doing.

In this talk, Scott Jenson gives examples of how focusing on UX -- instead of UI -- frees us to think bigger. This is especially true for the desktop, where the user experience has so much potential to grow well beyond its current interaction models. The desktop UX is certainly not dead, and this talk suggests some future directions we could take.

Scott Jenson has been a leader in UX design and strategic planning for over 35 years. He was the first member of Apple’s Human Interface group in the late '80s, and has since held key roles at several major tech companies. He served as Director of Product Design for Symbian in London, managed Mobile UX design at Google, and was Creative Director at frog design in San Francisco. He returned to Google to do UX research for Android and is now a UX strategist in the open-source community for Mastodon and Home Assistant.

They present a bit of history, terminology, and current and alternative approaches to human interfaces.

 

about the new and interesting changes and additions in .NET networking space. This time, we are writing about HTTP improvements, new web sockets APIs, security changes and many distinct additions in networking primitives.

 

It is with great pleasure that we announce the new Jenkins Bug Bounty Program! The European Commission (EC OSPO) has partnered with YesWeHack to launch bug bounty programs for several open source projects. The Jenkins project was selected as a valuable asset for public administration across the European Union.

  • Initial scope: Jenkins Core and its main components, and four plugins related to security
  • Reward: Up to €5,000 for valid critical findings!
  • Platform: Jenkins Bug Bounty Program on YesWeHack
  • Funding: European Commission
[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 3 points 4 weeks ago

This proposal is an early design sketch by Blink Layout Team in Google to describe the problem below and solicit feedback on the proposed solution. It has not been approved to ship in Chrome.

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Let’s walk through why that history powers Visual Studio and why changing a shortcut like Ctrl+W is such a challenge.

This is about them changing keyboard shortcuts [defaults], not the user changing their keyboard shortcuts.

This walked you through the process we followed to map Ctrl+W to close the current tab in Visual Studio 2026. For C# profile users, we held off on this change to avoid disrupting existing workflows, especially given potential conflicts with sequenced shortcuts. If you’re using the C# profile and want Ctrl+W to close tabs, you can easily set it up yourself in the keybinding settings.

 

AI models have a knowledge cutoff and do not have access to your personal or company data by default.

While context engineering is a broader topic, this post will focus on enabling access to high-quality data through data ingestion pipelines.

… we’re excited to announce the preview release of data ingestion building blocks for .NET.

… how these building blocks empower the .NET ecosystem to build composable data ingestion pipelines for their AI applications.

 

Over the past week, we've identified and tracked an unprecedented 23 extensions which copy other popular extensions, update after publishing with malware, manipulate download counts, and use KNOWN attack signatures which have been in use for months. Many of these relate to Glassworm malware, but there could be mulitple campaigns at work also.

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sharing, because I had to look up Abstract Wikipedia

Abstract Wikipedia is an in-development project of the Wikimedia Foundation. It aims to use Wikifunctions to create a language-independent version of Wikipedia using its structured data.

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Microsoft actually cut off Israel’s access to Azure…

After months of pressure and trying to silence internal criticism.

I had to look it up to make sure "months of" is correct. Wikipedia has the infos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft#Israeli_military_support 2023-2025, various employees fired

“Microsoft actually cut off Israel’s access to Azure” doesn't really cover or adequately represent their behavior regarding this topic.

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That comment doesn't say anything about what I'm asking about here.

 

When Zork arrived, it didn’t just ask players to win; it asked them to imagine. There were no graphics, no joystick, and no soundtrack, only words on a screen and the player’s curiosity. Yet those words built worlds more vivid than most games of their time. What made that possible wasn’t just clever writing, it was clever engineering.

Beneath that world of words was something quietly revolutionary: the Z-Machine, a custom-built engine. Z-Machine is a specification of a virtual machine, and now there are many Z-Machine interpreters that we used today that are software implementations of that VM. …

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