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How do they do this?
They don’t just slap some guides online and call it a day.
They run trainings. They hold conferences. They get people talking. They do an •unimaginable• amount of work building relationships, talking to people, learning about needs, learning about successes, sharing, trying to make what works reproducible.
It is significant ongoing human labor. That’s something we software folks (especially in OSS) have been tragically dismissive of, allergic too. We’ve got to get over it.
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When I do web dev, I don’t just work in the DOM, I put on a pencil moustache and work in the MANDOM.
Pat didn’t know it when he made the shirt, but it’s a guys’ web dev shirt: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/78574049-mandom
(Or a shifter smut lady book club tank, as it t…

Rookie Mistakes: Measuring Software Quality in Student Projects to Guide Educational Enhancement
Marco De Luca, Sergio Di Martino, Sergio Di Meglio, Anna Rita Fasolino, Luigi Libero Lucio Starace, Porfirio Tramontana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12488

Rookie Mistakes: Measuring Software Quality in Student Projects to Guide Educational Enhancement
When teaching Programming and Software Engineering in Bachelor's Degree programs, the emphasis on creating functional software projects often overshadows the focus on software quality, a trend that aligns with ACM curricula recommendations. Software Engineering courses are typically introduced later in the curriculum, and can generally allocate only limited time to quality-related topics, leaving educators with the challenge of deciding which quality aspects to prioritize. In this decision, the…

iReDev: A Knowledge-Driven Multi-Agent Framework for Intelligent Requirements Development
Dongming Jin, Weisong Sun, Jiangping Huang, Peng Liang, Jifeng Xuan, Yang Liu, Zhi Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13081

iReDev: A Knowledge-Driven Multi-Agent Framework for Intelligent Requirements Development
Requirements development is a critical phase as it is responsible for providing a clear understanding of what stakeholders need. It involves collaboration among stakeholders to extract explicit requirements and address potential conflicts, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Recently, multi-agent systems for software development have attracted much attention. However, existing research provides limited support for requirements development and overlooks the injection of human knowledge …

For those fretting about Microsoft's inevitable further enshittification of the already shit Github, I can report (having ditched it the day Microsoft announced its acquisition) that Forgejo (#libre

Normalerweise schreien sich die Autofahrenden am Nachmittag an. Der und die soll ausweichen und über den Gehwege fahren.
Normalerweise. Nur nicht an den Tagen der Müllabfuhr. Da geht es schon am Vormittag.
Ach Politik, macht doch bitte, was die Verwaltung empfiehlt:
"Die Verwaltung empfiehlt daher weiterhin die Zweiteilung des Wohnquartiers, weil dies – trotz kleiner
Schwächen – die eleganteste Lösung darstellt und v.a. die vielen verkehrlichen Probleme lösen würde…

Thoma Bravo agrees to buy HR software provider Dayforce for $12.3B at $70 per share, a 32% premium to Dayforce shares before reports of a possible deal (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/21/dayforce-hr-software-thoma-bravo

HR software firm Dayforce going private for $12.3 billion
It comes against the backdrop of a weakening U.S. labor market.

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https://justanotherlabel.bandcamp.com/track/aqua-libra-down-beat-mix
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So much of the work we do in software is about asking not just what •does• happen when the developer runs their own code, but what •could• happen when the code is running in the wild, out from under the watchful eye of its author.
That’s really, really hard. It’s a large portion of what makes development time-consuming and labor-intensive.
And it’s something you can only do if you actually understand what the code •means• — both to the computers and to the humans.
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REST in Pieces: RESTful Design Rule Violations in Student-Built Web Apps
Sergio Di Meglio, Valeria Pontillo, Luigi Libero Lucio Starace
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11689

REST in Pieces: RESTful Design Rule Violations in Student-Built Web Apps
In Computer Science Bachelor's programs, software quality is often underemphasized due to limited time and a focus on foundational skills, leaving many students unprepared for industry expectations. To better understand the typical quality of student code and inform both education and hiring practices, we analyze 40 full-stack web applications developed in a third-year Web Technologies course. Using an automated static analysis pipeline, we assess adherence to REST API design rules. Results rev…