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Centralisation and Mastodon

The founder of Mastodon recently announced that he has started a second flagship instance. Is it a good thing to have flagship instances, or does the centralisation of Mastodon do more harm than good? Many users of the Mastodon network have long said that…

via Kev Quirk June 8, 2020

Add a "contrib" directory to your projects

There’s a common pattern among free- and open-source software projects to include a “contrib” directory at the top of their source code tree. I’ve seen this in many projects for many years, but I’ve seen it discussed only rarely — so here we are! The contrib …

via Drew DeVault's Blog June 6, 2020

Documenting With MediaWiki

Much to my chagrin, I’ve hardly posted anything at all the past couple of weeks. This is partly due to university summer classes starting and partly due to me putting some work into NixNet’s documentation. After listening to Episode 4 of 2.5 Admins, I dec…

via Posts on Secluded.Site June 4, 2020

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