It’s OK to make money from your open source

As of today, Citadel only offers basic task tracking through a Kanban board, but sometimes you find that just that is just enough and a lack of other features becomes a feature in and of itself.

But have no fear, feature creep enhancements are part of the plan!

Poodle’s features include:

• Register your web services and endpoints easily.
• Use variables in endpoints definitions.
• Painless debugging and interaction with APIs.
• Search web services and endpoints interactively.
• Edit services and endpoints easily (config is just a TOML file).
• Sync services via Gist automatically.

Eduards Sizovs:

People rarely talk about it, but in many companies, code review makes developers feel like sh%t. This is a practical guide on how to create a code review process that developers love.

Click through for 8 recommendations from Eduards on making code review an effective, encouraging, and positive activity.

dijo is a habit tracker. It is curses-based, it runs in your terminal. dijo is scriptable, hook it up with external programs to track events without moving a finger. dijo is modal, much like a certain text editor.

Writing is hard. Technical writing can be even harder. This piece by Sandy Maguire has lots of help in it:

Here’s the biggest thing to keep in mind: your reader doesn’t really care what you have to say. You get maybe four sentences to convince them that your essay is worth their time. If you haven’t made your case by then, you’ve probably lost them to the next tab they binge-opened.

You’re still gonna want Nmap, but RustScan drastically speeds up the first step (scans all 65k ports in less than a minute) and then pipes its data to Nmap.

You might be asking yourself… “is CSS a programming language now?!” Turns out it is, thanks to the Space Toggle trick (which I’m still trying to grok as I write this).

I predict that, unlike its two predecessors (PTB and OpenAI GPT-2), OpenAI GPT-3 will eventually be widely used to pretend the author of a text is a person of interest, with unpredictable and amusing effects on various communities.

If you’re going to read this post, make sure you stick around until the end.

🎶 Universal binaries because written in Go. A command-line interface to your favorite show. Install it with curl simply pass the right strings. These are a few of my favorite things 🎶

Orta Therox, making the big announcement on behalf of the Svelte team:

We think it’ll give you a much nicer development experience — one that also scales beautifully to larger Svelte code bases — regardless of whether you use TypeScript or JavaScript.

Up until now TypeScript was usable with Svelte, but not officially supported by the project.

I know a lot of people have been waiting for this. Congrats to all involved on a big release!

A new study from North Carolina State University and Microsoft finds that the technical interviews currently used in hiring for many software engineering positions test whether a job candidate has performance anxiety rather than whether the candidate is competent at coding. The interviews may also be used to exclude groups or favor specific job candidates.
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What’s more, the specific nature of the technical interview process means that many job candidates try to spend weeks or months training specifically for the technical interview, rather than for the actual job they’d be doing.

Be careful out there.

Addy Osmani:

Native lazy-loading for images landed in Chrome 76 via the loading attribute and later came to Firefox. We are happy to share that native lazy-loading for iframes is now standardized and is also supported in Chrome and Chromium-based browsers.

<iframe src="https://changelog.com" loading="lazy" width="600" height="400"></iframe>

YaS!! Lazy load all the things 💚

A nice primer on Nextcloud, which is worth a second look if you haven’t kicked the tires in a couple years.

I recently revisited Nextcloud and was amazed by all the changes I saw. The project has evolved into a complete solution that can replace big-name solutions like Google Drive and Microsoft 365. Nextcloud’s new feature set, especially Nextcloud Hub, is outstanding, offering collaborative documentation editing, file version control, integrated chat and video calling, and more.

Oh, and ICYMI our conversation with Nextcloud’s Frank Karlitschek ~> #383

If you’re a subscriber of Brain Science, then you’re going to love my upcoming talk at Heartifacts in August. The conference is online and virtual (of course) which means our entire global audience can attend. Registration is $75 with swag or $50 swag-free. We’re giving away three (3) free passes, so keep reading to learn more.