mcneely @mcneely@librem.one

It’s #TransgenderAwarenessWeek, so here’s your reminder that much of the open source software you love was made with the help of transgender people—including elementary OS! Shoutouts to all the trans folks in our community 🏳️‍⚧️

In honor of Transgender Awareness Week, we recognize our transgender contributors and we stand with all transgender people.

#TransgenderAwarenessWeek runs Nov 13 - 19, leading up to Transgender Day of Remembrance on Nov 20.

Carnegie Mellon's open source programs office is hiring a community manager. This is an exciting opportunity to help build a new model for community engagement at universities: https://cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CMU/job/Program-Manager--Open-Source-Programs-Office_2018917

The new Web Weekly is out.🙈

This time you'll learn about:

✅ Forgiving CSS selectors
✅ How to "manage up"
✅ A new "Flash of" acronym (FART) 💨
✅ aria-label and why it can be considered a code smell
➕ Github repos, TIL posts & some music.

Enjoy!😊

https://www.stefanjudis.com/blog/web-weekly-85/

Gerroa NSW, Long exposure creating an almost alien landscape look.

#photography #photo #landscape #sea #seascape #sunset #dusk #longexposure

i aggregated a list of the 500 most defederated instances from publicly available block lists. i think it's a good base for instance admins to curate their own block list. #fediblock #data

https://gist.github.com/yetzt/32c754fbe87009f8c161f40541147c70

I have stopped
the microservices
that were in
the infrastructure

and which
you were probably
using
for authentication

Forgive me
they were 1000+
so many
and so wasteful

new Deno works well with the npm packages that I tested

its been a looooong time coming but this could mark a reason to evaluate switching our backend for real

Mastodon users: accessibility is a core principle of the community's culture

Mastodon UI: A 1:21 contrast ratio for scroll handles is good enough

If you do not schedule maintenance, your systems will schedule it for you.

The Vala Discord community is organizing a casual online meetup during the first weekend of December (3rd~4th)

It's a great opportunity to meet other Vala programmers, showcase your projects, get to know about other people's projects, prepare a presentation for a conference, or just stay up to date with what's happening in the community and have fun!

#vala #event

If you’re looking for a non-coding way to get involved, I just created a project for improving the metadata we show for our apps in AppCenter. Check it out: https://github.com/orgs/elementary/projects/112

3 steps to prepare for the future:

1) Integrate Plausible into your site
2) Import your historical GA stats
3) Ditch Google Analytics 🚀

If you're an #academic studying complex collaboration (multiteam, networked and non-hierarchical, interorganizational, group dynamics, etc.) I'd love to talk. Currently looking at doing the deep dive and joining #academia to study the psychology of it.

✨ Our new https://pixelfed.org website is now live! 🎉

"The internet’s town square should never have been one specific website with its own specific rules and incentives. It should have been, & should be, the web itself.

Having one entity own & police that square could only deform the worldwide conversation" https://inessential.com/2022/11/13/after_twitter

You can’t solve social problems with technology but my god can you make them far far far far worse