Gitter’s big adventure from GitLab to Matrix

duf does for du what htop did for top.

In addition to the eye candy output you see below, you can also call it with the --json flag and pass the output to other programmer-y things.

This font is derived from the x3270 font, which, in turn, was translated from the one in Georgia Tech’s 3270tool, which was itself hand-copied from a 3270 series terminal. I built it because I felt terminals deserve to be pretty.

By switching from Node.js to Rust, we improved some memory issue and embrassed the concept of ownership. Which is according to The Rust Book, Rust’s most unique feature.

At Airbnb, we made it a goal to unify our visualization stack across the company and in the process, we created a new project that brings together the power of D3 with the joy of React.

The library boasts small bundle sizes due to package splitting, is un-opinionated about integrations like state management and animations (if that’s a feature for you), and is explicitly not a charting library.

As you start using visualization primitives, you’ll end up building your own charting library that’s optimized for your use case. You’re in control.

This is like having a nice, OS-integrated GUI for all of your common scripts and tasks. It has a bunch of functions built in and scripting support is coming soon so you can add your own as well. $9 cheap or if you’re really cheap you can build it yourself from source. 😉

If you plan on using Tailwind and building with React or Vue (or Alpine coming soon), it’s a no-brainer to start with these free UI components by the Tailwind team.

We’re big fans of what Hacktoberfest represents, but maybe it’s time to rethink the model. The burden falls primarily on maintainers, as Domenic Denicola outlines in this post – going as far as to describe Hacktoberfest as “a corporate-sponsored distributed denial of service attack against the open source maintainer community.”

For the last couple of years, DigitalOcean has run Hacktoberfest, which purports to “support open source” by giving free t-shirts to people who send pull requests to open source repositories.

In reality, Hacktoberfest is a corporate-sponsored distributed denial of service attack against the open source maintainer community.

So far today, on a single repository, myself and fellow maintainers have closed 11 spam pull requests. Each of these generates notifications, often email, to the 485 watchers of the repository. And each of them requires maintainer time to visit the pull request page, evaluate its spamminess, close it, tag it as spam, lock the thread to prevent further spam comments, and then report the spammer to GitHub in the hopes of stopping their time-wasting rampage. … The rate of spam pull requests is, at this time, around four per hour. And it’s not even October yet in my timezone.

This screenshot of issues on whatwg/html labeled as spam was taken moments before posting this.

What’s linked is the official PyTorch implementation of a paper published in April of this year called Bringing Old Photos Back to Life.

We propose to restore old photos that suffer from severe degradation through a deep learning approach. Unlike conventional restoration tasks that can be solved through supervised learning, the degradation in real photos is complex and the domain gap between synthetic images and real old photos makes the network fail to generalize. Therefore, we propose a novel triplet domain translation network by leveraging real photos along with massive synthetic image pairs. Specifically, we train two variational autoencoders (VAEs) to respectively transform old photos and clean photos into two latent spaces.

The results are impressive!

If building URLs to make API requests is something you do commonly in your JavaScript code, this little dependency might be worthy of a position in your package.json. It’ll help you turn code like this:

const requestUrl = `${API_URL}/users/${id}/blogs/${blogId}/posts?limit=${limit}&offset=${offset}`;

Into code like this, which is more ergonomic and less error prone:

const requestUrl = urlcat(API_URL, '/users/:id/posts', { id, limit, offset });

This is not a tutorial on using Git! To follow along I advise that you have working knowledge of Git. If you’re a newcomer to Git, this tutorial is probably not the best place to start your Git journey. I suggest coming back here after you’ve used Git a bit and you’re comfortable with making commits, branching, merging, pushing and pulling.

The Hacktoberfest team has responded to the concerns of Hacktoberfest hurting open source, saying…

We apologize for the impact this spam is having on the community. We often talk about intent versus impact and this is a classic example. Hacktoberfest aims to celebrate open source with positive engagement between contributors and maintainers alike. Unfortunately, the actions of some participants led to unintended consequences for all. They’ve overwhelmed maintainers and steamrolled other participants in an effort to receive a T-shirt they didn’t really earn.

Despite this, we are confident that, with your help, we can make things better. We’ve already started making changes to the program to help reduce spam and there is much more work planned in the days ahead.

And specifically to maintainers…

We’re sorry that these unintended consequences of Hacktoberfest have made more work for many of you. We know there is more work to do, which is why we ask that you please join us for a community roundtable discussion where we promise to listen and take actions based on your ideas.

Mimesis… provides data for a variety of purposes in a variety of languages. The fake data could be used to populate a testing database, create fake API endpoints, create JSON and XML files of arbitrary structure, anonymize data taken from production and etc.

Data generators like Mimesis are fun to use (and I imagine fun to code as well):

>>> from mimesis import Person
>>> person = Person('en')
>>> person.full_name()
'Brande Sears'
>>> person.email(domains=['mimesis.name'])
'roccelline1878@mimesis.name'
>>> person.email(domains=['mimesis.name'], unique=True)
'f272a05d39ec46fdac5be4ac7be45f3f@mimesis.name'
>>> person.telephone(mask='1-4##-8##-5##3')
'1-436-896-5213'

If you’re new to DevTools, this is a must-read. If you’re an old pro, you might still learn a thing or two. Like did you know they have multi-cursor support?! DevTools are slowly turning into a full-in development environment…