@geant@mstdn.socialeduGAIN is expanding across Africa! 🌍
Five new countries: 🇹🇬 Togo, 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso, 🇲🇼 Malawi, 🇬🇭 Ghana, and 🇹🇿 Tanzania have joined, bringing the total on the continent to 14. 🎉
At the heart of this progress is eduID.africa (by UbuntuNet Alliance & WACREN under #AfricaConnect3), and now more researchers and students can now access global services with one trusted identity.
@todbot@mastodon.socialThe new audio effects libraries in CircuitPython are super fun. Here's a quick "taster" showing off some of them, part of my impending "Synthio Tutorial". Thanks Mark & Cooper for making them!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyv7XlQ1d00
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1. Looking for libraries/examples in a given language for a specific purpose.
2. Sometimes I'm searching for code that uses a certain library/API to understand how others use it.
3. Sometimes I misuse an API and then look for other projects that made the same mistake and need fixing.
4. Sometimes I search for code that uses one of my l…
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@jonippolito@digipres.clubBy popular demand, UMaine's Digital Curation graduate program is once again offering two summer courses on metadata. This is your chance to learn more about how standards for describing files can improve access to libraries, archives, laboratories, and businesses—no prereqs. https://DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu
@timelfen@assemblag.esJust read Plantin & Thomer's article, on the changes Figshare for Institutions introduces into the provision & organization of data-management labor in libraries. The authors worry that this commercial SaaS platform for institutional & data repositories, while fulfilling a number of library needs, will have detrimental effects. While it's a good piece of infrastructure-studies research, I question some of the analysis & conclusions.
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@castarco@hachyderm.ioRant about PHP
You know a technology is declining when the most basic questions about its most bizarre quirks are left completely unanswered for years.
#PHP is like that. Every day I have many of these questions. I look for them. No one asked them before, no one wrote about them before.
I'm baffled by the lack of curiosity and proactivity of its community.
I know it sounds like me piling up on people I don't know anything about, but I used to invest a lot of time programming in PHP. I went to conferences, I made some open source libraries for it, like a PHP kernel for Jupyter Notebooks, I even made a library to work with dataframes, tensors and matrices in PHP (although I lost this one because my laptop was stolen before I released... and I didn't had it in me to rewrite it again).
Then, the ones who I admired the most in that space, like Nikita Popov, started leaving it to work in more intellectually vibrant communities... and it shows.
I'm sure Nikita Popov would be much more gracious than me when talking about it. I can only speculate about his motivations, but at least I can tell you about mine: It was precisely about that same lack of curiosity and creativity that I mentioned before, it felt unbearably grey and sad.
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@pimterry@toot.cafeStyled components has officially moved into maintenance-only mode: https://opencollective.com/styled-components/updates/thank-you
That's the bell I think, the era of runtime css-in-js libraries is now definitively over. So long and thanks for all the …
@jonippolito@digipres.clubHow should libraries respond to the deluge of AI-generated book submissions, sometimes dozens at a time? My Tuesday talk for the MLA considered:
- An outright ban
- Restriction to a specific "AI shelf"
- A required % of human authorship
- Restriction to certain genres (fiction yes/medical advice no)
- Community vetting
What would you do?
#Collections
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@rperezrosario@mastodon.socialStartup CTO, writer and coach Dr. Milan Milanović shares a love letter to C# in 2025, and why its adherents believe it's such a good choice. He discusses, amongst other topics:
1. Language Features
2. The .NET Ecosystem
3. Tooling
4. Libraries and NuGet
5. Documentation
6. Community
7. Popularity
8. C# vs Other Languages, and
9. The Future of C#
He also shares a brief history of the language.
"Why C#?"
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@Xexyz@mastodon.me.ukDensetsu no Stafy: spin spin spin
When renewing my subscription to Nintendo Online it was only marginally more to upgrade to the expansion pass, which has given my sons access to the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC, will provide me with upgrades for Tears of the Kingdom on the Switch 2, and also gives me access to the N64, GBA and MD libraries. Tempted as I was to immediately start playing through Streets of Rage 2 again, I instead had a look for anything new and interesting.
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@alethenorio@fosstodon.orgI absolutely love coding in Go. When I started about 8 or so years ago, it had simple ideas and concepts but somewhere along the way it seems people lost track of what made it good.
I've rarely wanted to reach for something like a mock library and every time I did I could get away with something simpler yet some people insist on using mock libraries. No, you don't need a mocking library.
@castarco@hachyderm.iorant on software dev practices
What is it with P5js and virtually all its ecosystem (like Q5js) that, still today, didn't manage to _properly_ package their libraries to be distributed and used via package managers?
Same with their insistence to push global resources and state everywhere... and of course virtually not documenting any of the truly delicate details, just the trivial stuff that could be auto-discovered by relying on auto-complete tools.
I kind of understand wanting to keep the vanilla experience alive, making it "easy" for novices... but that shouldn't be at odds with more "professionalized" production pipelines, at least *not that much*.
For example, with Q5js:
- The NPM packages could be mentioned in their documentation (they are not, even though they are official)
- The NPM packages could define proper exports (same for the JS modules themselves), not forcing us to rely on relative paths to files in node_modules... 🤦
- Globals could be at least namespaced... of course, it would be much, much better if they didn't exist at all.
I'm writing this in 2025, not 1993... and I'm... "triggered".
At this point I'll have to check if I have any other neuro-condition beyond ADHD that makes me "obsessed" with technical flaws, because it seems to be a "me problem" when either virtually nobody sees that as a huge collection of fatal design flaws... or they see it and don't care at all.
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