Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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The Register UK ☛ SuperHTML: Live syntax checking for HTML
SuperHTML is a language server that talks to compatible code editing apps over the Language Server Protocol (LSP). What that means is that you can plug it into Visual Studio Code – or many other LSP-compatible editors, from Emacs to Kate to Vim. Or, if you prefer, run it as a standalone tool from the command line. It can also reformat your HTML for you.
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Clayton Errington ☛ Upgrading 11ty to v3
I don’t know why it too me so long to do the upgrade, as the upgrade plugin is pretty helpful. If I’m being honest some is the ESM vs CommonJS modes, models, I get confused. Once I get something working, I’m good to go.
To test the upgrade process, it might be a good idea to make a branch for the upgrade to confirm how to upgrade your project, then either merge that back into your main branch, or if simple enough, redo the updates.
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Content Management Systems (CMS)
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LWN ☛ WordPress retaliation impacts community
It is too early to say what the outcome will be in the ongoing fight between Automattic and WP Engine, but the WordPress community at large is already the loser. Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg has been using his control of the project, and the WordPress.org infrastructure, to punish WP Engine and remove some dissenting contributors from discussion channels. Most recently, Mullenweg has instituted a hostile fork of a WP Engine plugin and the forked plugin is replacing the original via WordPress updates.
In the beginning of the Automattic and WP Engine spat, many people hoped that the companies would ratchet down the hostilities—or at least leave it to lawyers to sort out while leaving the larger community out of it. Those hopes have gone unrealized.
WP Engine did try to opt for the legal-only route. The day after the "reprieve" on the WordPress.org ban ended, October 2, WP Engine filed a 62‑page complaint against Automattic and Mullenweg personally, and asked for a jury trial. The suit's claims include contractual interference, computer fraud (for blocking its access to WordPress.org), attempted extortion, libel, and slander. In addition, the suit asks for declaratory judgment that WP Engine is not infringing on or diluting the WordPress, WooCommerce, and other trademarks that Automattic named in its cease‑and‑desist letter.
That is, of course, a move that was unlikely to rebuild any burned bridges between Automattic and WP Engine. It was predictable that the WordPress.org ban would remain in place, that Automattic would respond to the suit, and perhaps countersue WP Engine. However, to date, there has been no indication of a countersuit or response to WP Engine's lawsuit. Instead, Mullenweg is using other means to cause problems for WP Engine—and those tactics have spilled over to the wider WordPress community in troubling ways.
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Education
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APNIC ☛ APNIC fellowship: A journey through Internet Infrastructure and governance
This post shares how returning as an APNIC Fellow and participating in APNIC 58 and the Pacific Islands Internet Governance Forum (PacIGF 2024) in Wellington strengthened my knowledge of network automation, cybersecurity, and Internet governance, helping advance my professional contributions.
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Open Access/Content
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Society for Scholarly Publishing ☛ Guest Post - Upholding the Integrity of Open Science - The Scholarly Kitchen
The open access movement emerged in the early 1990s with the rise of the internet. Online scholarly publishing became a reality, rooted in the vision of providing universal online access to academic works without financial or legal barriers. Interestingly, preprints predate the open access movement. Offline preprints, in the form of physical mailed copies, have existed since at least the 1960s. The establishment of arXiv in 1991 ushered in the online preprint server movement, which created a new and easy way of sharing and discovering pre-peer review records.
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