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Releases for XFCE

So it’s not that I’ve been quiet and lazy – I was actually busy preparing some releases and hacking on stuff. So here’s an update on what’s been going on and what’s to come.

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Announcing NPM 6

In coordination with today’s announcement of Node.js v10, we’re excited to announce npm@6. This major update to npm includes powerful new…

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Futures of distributions

Seems Debian is talking about why they are unable to package whole categories of modern software, such as anything using npm. It's good they're having a conversation about that, and I want to give a broader perspective.

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I'm moving my projects off GitHub

It's time for me to leave GitHub behind and move to another forge. I'm not necessarily advocating for anyone else to do the same, but if my reasons resonate with you then you may want to consider it. I also don't expect this post to... matter, if that makes sense [1] . I'm not a major open-source maintainer or…

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Open Source as We Know It Is Dead

I've been part of open source for most of my life. This year, the projects I love started closing their doors to outside contributors, and I don't blame them one bit, but it makes me sad. A personal look at how AI is changing open source as I've known it.