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"In a previous edition of this magazine, we argued that English was so pervasive in our industry, nobody even questioned its use anymore. The same can be said of Git. It is difficult to imagine that merely twenty years ago, the landscape of source control tools was more diverse, and the choice of one such tool was much more complicated than today. Actually, Git was not even on the map yet. Before debating whether the hegemony of Git is good or bad, let us go back in time for a little while."

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Perfection: "I belong to the last generation that grew up offline. The LAST one. Generations that came after me experienced the internet and social media from middle school… or even earlier. The only people who could relate to this are my late grandparents. They were born in a world without television… and then, in their adult years, they discovered this “magical” box that would bring the outside world in their living room."

Raspberry Pi Zero W as a Wifi-enabled USB Memory Stick

very much the same argument Cory Doctorow makes - DRM and platform-specificity break the whole value of ebooks.

TAP, the Test Anything Protocol, is a simple text-based interface between testing modules in a test harness. It decouples the reporting of errors from the presentation of the reports.

Mastinator is a test service that is intended to be used for validating your ActivityPub implementation.

A simple printable calendar with the full year on a single page