Programming: Motivation, NetBeans, git-annex and Perl

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Developers Are Coding for the Love of It (Plus the Money)
You know what they say about building software: It’s not just a job—it’s a passion.
Okay, nobody really says that.
Nonetheless, it’s true: when developers and other tech pros leave their jobs, they keep coding through the night and on weekends. Based on data in the annual Octoverse report, which breaks down the activity of 31 million developers on the Github platform, contributions to public and open-source code repositories dip but don’t flatten out on Saturday or Sunday, even as activity on private repositories plunges.
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According to Stack Overflow’s (extensive and essential) Developer Survey, more than 80 percent of developers code as a hobby outside of work. Not only that, but those developers with extensive non-programming responsibilities, such as parenting or an affinity for the outdoors, were “slightly more likely to code as a hobby than other groups.”
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Apache NetBeans 10.0 Released With JDK 11 & PHP7 Support
The Apache NetBeans 10.0 release is now available as the latest release for this integrated development environment under the Apache incubator umbrella.
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git-annex and funding update
git-annex v7 was released this fall, the culmination of a long effort to add some important new features to git-annex. Rather than go into details about it here, see this LWN article comparing and contrasting git-annex with git lfs.
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Calling subs and typing in Perl 6
This is the ninth article in a series about migrating code from Perl 5 to Perl 6. This article examines the subtle differences in visibility of subroutines between Perl 5 and Perl 6 and the (gradual) typing core feature of Perl 6.
This article assumes you're familiar with signatures—if you're not, read How subroutine signatures work in Perl 6, the fourth article in this series, before you continue.
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'Update perl to 5.28.1'
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