Contributing is more than just code (and more)
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Contributing is more than just code
When thinking about how to contribute to KDE, many people probably still think that you have to write actual code. While it’s true that C++ and QML is at the heart of our applications, it’s just one puzzle piece of many that make up a successful product. Besides donating money to KDE or developers like me individually, there’s much more you can do to support us: promo work, drawing icons, brainstorming ideas, writing documentation, triaging bug reports or writing new ones, or in this case sending the relevant piece of hardware to a developer. Every single contribution counts!
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Rlang ☛ joint fiddlin
Flip a fair coin 100 times, resulting in a sequence of heads (H) and tails (T). For each HH in the sequence, Alice gets a point; for each HT, Bob does, so e.g. for the subsequence THHHT Alice gets 2 points and Bob gets 1 point. Who is most likely to win?
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Make Tech Easier ☛ 7 of the Best Self-Hosted Alternatives to Microsoft's proprietary prison Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub
Learn some of the best Microsoft's proprietary prison Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub alternatives for your server.
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Bert Hubert ☛ Practical parsing with PEG and cpp-peglib
A very practical introduction to Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs), in which we’ll build a non-trivial parser using the most excellent cpp-peglib single-include C++ library.
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Perl / Raku
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Rakulang ☛ Raduko Weekly 2024.17 abaacab ~~ Xabddcabaacab
John Haltiwanger dove into a very obscure regex issue and managed to trace it back to a MoarVM optimization that was done in 2018. And implemented a fix for it. Kudos, as this really was a weird edge case indeed!
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