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For over two years now I've been working on the revival of a community calendar that was built in the heady days of the sharing economy before Uber and friends extracted every ounce of community goodwill in their thurst for profit.

A FOSS self hosted community ecosystem calendar (like say one for the local indie band scene) seems like a natural fit for the fediverse.

I've been unpacking some ideas for how this might work in the discussions on the code repo.

Would love folks to give it a read and give any feedback.

github.com/koalagator/koalagat

GitHubActivityPub / Mastodon integration - What would be ideal? · koalagator koalagator · Discussion #51We're looking into Activity Pub integration towards increasing discoverability of events and also as a way to support greater sharability and discussions around upcoming events. Im writing today to...

New #ASML harassment story available: dannyvanheumen.nl/post/harassm

This is made possible in part by coordinated harassment practices by #ASML, the #Dutch #government, misguided #religion #religious nutcases, and other people who think persistent years-long abuse and violations of human rights are okay.

dannyvanheumen.nlHarassment: ASML, UX Trojan horse · Timelessness

Once again, GMail is helpfully shepherding me to overcommit myself by *only* providing 'Yes' suggestions when someone asks me to do a thing.

But, here's a secret: I already know many good ways to say 'Yes' to things! Those words already flow out of my fingers very easily.

I would find it far, *far* more helpful and labor-saving if Google would provide a variety of starting points to kindly/politely say 'No' to a request.

The latest issue of #AdvancesInComputing is here!

Highlights you can’t miss:
🔍 A deep dive into self-designing software—a glimpse at the future of autonomous programming.
📉 How did Intel’s “fall from grace” happen?
💡 Plus, handpicked stories from ACM’s Interactions and XRDS magazines.

Dive in and explore 👇
linkedin.com/pulse/self-design

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I wonder how many software teams today are still betting heavily on UI tests, struggling with their nondeterministic behaviour, near-impossible diagnostics, slowness, verbosity and utter lack of design feedback.

There is a better way: small, fast-running test. We know this. It has been stated more than 30 years ago. If only we learn those lessons from the past.

archive.org/details/The_Smallt

#tdd #unittests #softwaredesign

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When explaining the philosophy behind the SmallUnit framework, he mentions the following:

"The most radical philosophy espoused here is a rejection of user-interface-based tests. In my experience, tests based on user interface scripts are too brittle to be useful. Testers spend more time keeping the tests up to date and tracking down false failures and false successes than they do writing new tests.”

#tdd #unittests #softwaredesign

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