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Erlang Solutions: Here’s Why You Should Build Scalable and Concurrent Applications with Elixir
In today’s world, when dealing with high levels of system requests, you need applications that can handle them without slowing down. Here’s where Elixir comes in. Elixir is a programming language that is designed to create highly scalable and concurrent applications. Built on Erlang’s virtual machine (BEAM), it has been used for decades to build highly reliable … ⌘ Read more

** Accessibility and the product person **
This post is a slightly modified version of a talk I presented to the product practice at my work. It presents a few ways that product designers and managers can help to move accessibility forward. It is a little bit different than what I normally share, here, but, I thought it may be interesting to some folks.

[![Picture of a slide with the title “Why though?” It also includes a quote from Kat Holmes’ book Mismatch. The quote reads: “There are many challeng … ⌘ Read more

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In reply to: Oatmeal - week notes

The worst kind of blogging is blogging about blogging, so, I’ll keep this blogging about blogging short!

I’ve made some minor updates to the design of the website that have improved it’s usability a wee bit, and are a step in the right direction toward upping my accessibility game. The major remaining accessibility issues are around color contrast and some structura … ⌘ Read more

Isode: Icon-5066 3.0 – New Capabilities
We are thrilled to announce the latest update to our STANAG 5066 server, Icon-5066. With this new release, we’ve incorporated a host of exciting features and enhancements, designed to not only add new functionality to your deployment but also increase the performance of your HF Radio Network.

The below is a list of the changes, and updates that can be found within Icon-5066 v3.0.

This major new feature enables management of ALE conf … ⌘ Read more

Announcing the launch of the All In for Maintainers DEI Resource Hub
The DEI Resource Hub is a vetted collection of resources, tools, and best practices designed to help open source maintainers create and maintain inclusive and diverse open source communities. ⌘ Read more

logs: new blog post on visual design in software and first photojournal entries of 2023

Intel 8008: The wild tale of the first 8-Bit CPU
Not technically the first… and not actually designed by Intel. ⌘ Read more

GitHub and the Ekoparty 2022 Capture the Flag
Learn about the design behind, and solutions to, several of GitHub’s CTF challenge for Ekoparty’s 2022 event! ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org: Thank you, it’s really nice to hear that! Sometimes I think I’m a moss, because I really love northern nature :D Pixelfed is very slow indeed, and also buggy. @prologic@twtxt.net: I plan to add an RSS feed for the photography page instead of cross-posting to twtxt.txt. Maybe I should post updates of my website here? For example, I made a fancy New Year’s design of https://kolesnikov.se (which makes @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org’s eyes hurt, haha)

@prologic@twtxt.net: I understand the benefits of using hashes, it’s much easier to implement client applications (at the expense of ease of use without the proper client). I must say that I like the way the metadata extension is done. Simple and elegant! It’s hard to design simple things!

“The Sidecar” – Adding advanced networking, and a Linux shell, to a Psion palmtop
One of the coolest designs I’ve seen for extending older computers via the serial port. ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: #DRM isn’t just an annoyance – it’s a violation of your right to use the items you own as you see fit. Learn more about our Defective by Design campaign at http://defectivebydesign.org, and follow our campaign account at @enddrm
#DRM isn’t just an annoyance – it’s a violation of your right to use the items you own as you see fit. Learn more about our Defective by Design campaign at defectivebydesign.org, and follow our campa … ⌘ Read more

Git Commit Uruguay: Lowering barriers to make software development more inclusive and diverse
We delivered two different courses specifically designed to help students in the lowest-income neighborhood of Montevideo, Uruguay learn how to use GitHub and understand the value of open source. ⌘ Read more

The journey of your work has never been clearer
In July, we launched the general availability of GitHub Projects, and now we are excited to bring you even more features designed to make it easier to plan and track in the same place you build! ⌘ Read more

This is by design due to Google culture. The only way to get promoted into the higher pay scales is to ship a new product. So you have people shipping what worked before without regard to how it will exist within the product ecosystem. Also, why they seem to die off so quickly after launch. see allo and duo for example. The person that launches gets promoted to a higher level and off the original team and so it is left to wither and die.

9 Tips for Containerizing Your Node.js Application
Over the last five years, Node.js has maintained its position as a top platform among professional developers. It’s an open source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment designed to maximize throughput. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient — perfect for data intensive, real-time, and distributed applications.  With over 90,500 stars […] ⌘ Read more

The GitHub Universe 2022 agenda is live
Explore 80+ content sessions delivered by over 120 different speakers, across two days and four content tracks, all designed to level up your skills. ⌘ Read more

Working on a creative project? Unleash your originality and start to tinker with the Aspiring Creatives Experience
Develop your design and collaboration skills to get your clever intentions off the ground. ⌘ Read more

Expand your open source contributions during Hacktoberfest 2022
Give back to open source projects during the month of October! This year, we’re encouraging more than code contributions: writing, design, advocacy, and financial donations. ⌘ Read more

Tigase Blog: Tigase XMPP Libraries

Actually nothing new and nothing surprising here. We want to have as much of a reusable code as possible. And this
reusable code should have a simple but powerful API to be useful for quickly creating software.

That’s it.

And this is how we design and develop our XMPP libraries. Check them out.

Documentation to all our projects is available online and sample codes? Take a look at our XMPP Chat apps which are
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Erlang Solutions: Implementing Go Fish to Learn Elixir
A walkthrough of how we implemented GoFish as a way of learning Elixir and the concepts of the BEAM and OTP.

In this article, we will outline our initial design and implementation of the card game Go Fish in Elixir using raw processes, and then describe how we were motivated to re-implement the project using the GenServer module instead. The first step is to agree upon the rules of the game, then describe the domain mode … ⌘ Read more

https://opengameart.org/ game design pixel texture music sound

**We still didn’t have a (much needed) conversation about how to prepare for the next pandemic, so that next time we won’t end up with such ill-designed contact tracing apps.

But it seems that first we have other conversation we can no longer postpone:

https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-data-switch/**
We still didn’t have a (much needed) conversation about how to prepare for the next pandemic, so that next time we won’t end up with such ill-designed contact tracing apps.

But it seems that first we have oth … ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: A device that is designed for sneaky code execution and is legally off-limits to independent auditing is bad. A world of those devices - devices we put inside our bodies and put our bodies inside of - is fucking terrifying. 26/
A device that is designed for sneaky code execution and is legally off-limits to independent auditing is bad. A *world* of those devices - devices we put inside our bodies and put our bodies inside of - is *fucking terrifying*. 26/ ⌘ Read more

🌠 Boolean Task Queries & Improved Sidebar Controls
Plugin settings design tips & productivity book recommendations. ⌘ Read more

Thanks for the feedback! This site was designed to look perfect on good old 800x600 monitors (I even left a comment next to the meta tag). Maybe I’ll add a mobile-friendly version someday :-) P.S. Nice try with SQL injection, haha. Do you have any plans for XSS attacks? :D

Google’s ‘fast track to surveillance’ sparks backlash from European consumer groups over ‘deceptive’ practices
The Regional consumer organisation BEUC accused Google of using ‘deceptive design, unclear language, misleading choices and missing information’ for extensive data collection. ⌘ Read more

US-led rare earths pact satisfies South Korea’s ‘definite need’ to cut China dependency
South Korea joined the US-led Minerals Security Partnership earlier this month alongside the likes of Germany, France, Britain, Australia and Japan in a move designed to reduce its dependency on China for key resources, including rare earths. ⌘ Read more

Designer perfumes hit by war and weather as vital ingredient becomes ‘liquid gold’
Perfumes by top luxury brands, such as Christian Dior, Estee Lauder and Chanel, will be affected by commodities prices that soared after Russia invaded Ukraine, and heatwave that damaged roses and their oil – a vital ingredient. ⌘ Read more

Chinese firm aiming to break US dominance in chip design software gets IPO approval at home
Empyrean Technology aims to become a global leader in EDA software by 2030, in a market currently led by US firms Cadence, Synopsis and Mentor Graphics. ⌘ Read more

Following Friends in Fitness Apps is Associated with Higher Levels of Physical Activity
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The past few years have seen huge growth in mobile fitness apps globally. Expecting increased revenue to be generated from this category, app designers strive to add features to enhance the user experience and motivate better performance.

Dr HUANG Guanxiong, Dr Crystal JIANG Li, and doctoral student SUN Mengru from CityU’s … ⌘ Read more

US-China tech war: top Chinese scientist envisions forked RISC-V chip design standard to cushion decoupling impact
Chinese Academy of Sciences expert Bao Yungang said the country could handle sanctions better than Russia by developing a ‘RISC-X’ chip architecture to be used by Belt and Road countries in the event of technological decoupling. ⌘ Read more

Exclusive interview: Hong Kong’s leader-designate John Lee says ‘I am a pragmatic person’ and ‘I will be open to everybody’
In a wide-ranging interview, John Lee describes his approach to governing, his views of the civil service and the priorities of his incoming administration. ⌘ Read more

It’s amazing that Framework, a company that designed its own laptop, can’t avoid breaking its RSS feed every 2 weeks. Unsubscribed!

‘I need a room’: overseas Hong Kong students struggling to book quarantine hotels for summer return to city
Bulk of 66 quarantine hotels fully booked until end of July, while some hotels on new list of designated facilities only have availability from middle of August. ⌘ Read more

nirvash is live - blog post details some design decisions and stuff

Nicholas Burns, US ambassador to China, stresses need to find common ground amid tense relations
Nicholas Burns also counters the claim that US policy is designed to keep China down and prevent it from developing. ‘The evidence doesn’t bear that out,’ he says ⌘ Read more

Accelerating GitHub theme creation with color tooling
Learn why the GitHub Design Infrastructure team built a dedicated color tool and how they use it to create new color palettes for GitHub. ⌘ Read more

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Open Source Monthly: June 2022 Edition
June’s Open Source Monthly features Mondos–a community-focused company building software and hardware that designs digital devices with respect for users’ time, attention, and well-being. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: MongooseIM 5.1 Configuration Rework
MongooseIM is a modern messaging server that is designed for scalability and high performance. The use of XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) extensions (XEPs) means it is also highly customisable. Since version 4.0 it has been using the TOML configuration file format, which is much more user-friendly than the previously used Erlang terms. The latest release, MongooseIM 5.1, makes it more developer-friendly as well by … ⌘ Read more

Chaucer on Dynamically Loading Web Pages
The author of “The Canterbury Tales” has thoughts on modern web design. ⌘ Read more

TIL: Antarctica has its own unofficial flag. You could see Graham Bartram’s design in emoji: 🇦🇶

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP & Google Summer of Code 2022: Welcome new contributors!

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The Google Summer of Code 2022 is about to lift off and coding starts soon! The XSF has not just been
accepted (again!) as a hosting organization for XMPP projects, we also can welcome two new contributors who will work on open-source software projects in the XMPP environment! We have updated our [designated web-page](h … ⌘ Read more

A Retro-Modern Linux Terminal with a Round Screen
It’s like a 1960s design of a “Computer of the Future”… running modern Linux. And I love it. ⌘ Read more

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