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Rationale You want to keep your project healthy, approachable, and maintain readable CI/CD pipelines. You want to avoid strong dependencies on specific vendors, technologies, or CI runners, ensuring the flexibility to switch providers if needed. Vendor lock-in is problematic, among other reasons, because: Changes in the cost model Changes in the ToS Feature sets, and the corresponding API surface may change and go in a direction you don’t like Competitors may get better and may be re-considered, new options can appear How With a few simple precautions and sustained attention, you can achieve this:...

I’m often ask which Free Software/ Open Source projects could use some help and are currently accepting cash donations. Here are some ideas! Note that I’m personally involved with the projects marked with *. Projects Sylvia van Os, maintainer of Catima Nick Craig-Wood, developer of rclone Internet Archive Encode Django gbadev* gbdev* Memberships Italian Linux Society*, an organization supporting and promoting Linux and free software in Italy. Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) ondata* - Italian association dedicated to promoting the transparency, openness, and accessibility of public data....

When modernizing your technology/work framework you don’t need to introduce: A full Kubernetes setup Helm charts Complete CI/CD pipelines (and let alone templates) Full fledged scrum cerimonies Production level security requirements to deploy all at the same time. In fact, it may even be damaging long term or counter productive. The cognitive load and the practical new blockers that will inevitably pop up when trying out / implement new tools (especially the ones changing paradigms, e....

Monitor links It may seem obvious, but maintaining links working across every kind of web page of your project is crucial for ensuring your visitors and potential users have a good experience when learning. Broken links can lead to frustration and may discourage users, making them leave sooner than expected. Implement scripts to regularly check the status of links helps to promptly identify any that are breaking. Put those scripts in CIs....

About gbdev “gbdev” is the home of the Game Boy development scene. A community of retro-hardware enthusiasts. Maintaning and developing many projects, including RGBDS, the de-facto standard development toolkit, curated collections of resources, documentation efforts, digital preservation and an open archive of homebrews. Follow the Game Boy Development (gbdev) initiative on Twitter, join us on Discord or check our website at gbdev.io. I serve as community leader and directly mantain some of the projects under the gbdev umbrella....

Context: I’m a computer scientist/engineer and during 2018 and 2019 (while I was 23-24) I started being involved and committed in a lot of side activities, while getting my MS in Computer Science. I’ve been recently asked by a lot of friends and collegues finishing college, transitioning jobs or starting a master how to choose a job and what factors/which positions and employers should they consider in picking activities and contracts....

About the project Girls Code It Better is an Italian project trying to bridge the gender gap in STEM subjects, similar to the after-school clubs organized by Girls Who Code. The class is composed of 14 girls with an average age of 13. Half of them already had coding or technology classes. Lessons are 3 hours long, weekly. Views, thoughts, and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author, and not necessarily to the author’s employer, organization, committee or other group or individual....

The blocking mechanism on Instagram isn’t exactly well-designed: Blocking someone allows you to be unblock-able from that account, while still being able to view its content freely, completely hidden for the other account (unblocking and re-blocking fastly). There’s no way to know if someone is watching your stories or content if they have blocked you, since watching (with a script) for the split second they have unblocked you to see your content will rapidly lead to a rate-limiting error....

How to mix plain markdown and latex and get beautiful results while writing human stuff. (with results being PDF, XHTML, HTML5, docx, EPUB, LaTex and many more). Pandoc allows you to get the best of the two worlds without compromises: readable plain text files with latex expressions and everything offered by latex rendering and packages. You can write code-blocks with specific language syntax highlight, normal markdown and LaTex parts. To place something written in TeX in mathmode, use $ signs to enclose the math you want to display, exactly what you would do in a normal LaTex file....