Replying to @Floppy@mastodon.me.uk
@floppy @concretedog notice they didn’t index any AGPL licensed projects 😉
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Replying to @sschuberth@social.tchncs.de
@sschuberth @ort merged, the kiss thing seems pretty dead though
Replying to @johnm@genomic.social
@johnm that’s pretty much the only thing stopping me moving there!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/116974498919761167
This one really touched a nerve, I’ve had a number of emails from real maintainers today sharing their stories that end up being way too similar 🥲
Andrew Nesbitt@andrewnez@mastodon.socialInterview with a Maintainer
https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/24/interview-with-a-maintainer.html
Replying to @imichka@mastodon.imichka.me
@imichka ah the old brew switcharoo
Seems that Google AI Overviews still doesn't quite understand satire.
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I could not write this homebrew thread as a satire piece if i wanted to, real life is much more cursed: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/289444#issuecomment-5050717674
GitHubGemini-cli improperly deprecated · Issue #289444 · Homebrew/homebrew-corebrew config AND brew doctor output OR brew gist-logs <formula> link ○ → brew config bHOMEBREW_VERSION: 6.0.3 rORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew HEAD: 5c38c6b3fc42281af432cda526dd0509172f681b...Replying to @sschuberth@social.tchncs.de
@sschuberth @ort happy to merge a pr
This is like the mother of all escape hatches: https://github.com/dtolnay/semver-trick
GitHubGitHub - dtolnay/semver-trick: How to avoid complicated coordinated upgradesHow to avoid complicated coordinated upgrades. Contribute to dtolnay/semver-trick development by creating an account on GitHub.Replying to @Bubu@chaos.social
@Bubu re-reading it again this morning, I'm also pained by it
Replying to @Floppy@mastodon.me.uk
@floppy 24pr, hacktoberfest, gsoc , I saw it a lot on popular projects
Interview with a Maintainer
https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/24/interview-with-a-maintainer.html
Andrew NesbittInterview with a MaintainerEpisode 214 of Green Squares.Replying to @nemo@recurse.social
@nemo GHS payouts show up in OC ledgers as ADDED_FUNDS from the github-sponsors account (~$4.8M all time), and the $42M only counts direct contributions, so there's no overlap. About 5% of GitHub's $100M ends up in collective budgets via OSC.
The packages.ecosyste.ms database migration is complete, but now have 1.2M jobs in the queue to chew through 😅
Replying to @fanf@mendeddrum.org
@fanf @bellinghman what makes me think that is the lighting given how low the sun is, plus it looks way to perfect for any uk station I’ve ever been to
Replying to @vlad@mastodon.vlad.website
@vlad I was fighting with the iOS keyboard 😅
Replying to @veganstraightedge@ruby.social
@veganstraightedge if I’m looping through a big dataset and incrementing counters for undefined number of strings, I use the string as the key in the hash with an initial value of zero, and increment from there. Then by the end I have a hash with string keys and int values
Replying to @veganstraightedge@ruby.social
@veganstraightedge oh I get you, I’m a fan, the only thing that would break for me is using them mechanically as autogenerated dictionaries
Replying to @veganstraightedge@ruby.social
@veganstraightedge :"test test" is a symbol, would you just end up with some to_sym under the hood?
Replying to @fanf@mendeddrum.org
@fanf I don’t think it’s real