Free Applications and Free Software
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Thunderbird ☛ Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest: October 2024 - The Thunderbird Blog
An important member of our team left recently and while we’ll very much miss the spirit and leadership, we all learned a lot and are in a good position to carry the project forwards. We’ve managed to unstick a few pieces of the backlog and have a few sprints left to complete work on move/copy operations, protocol logging and priority two operations (flagging messages, folder rename & delete, etc). New team members have moved past the most painful stages and have patches that have landed. Kudos to the patient mentors involved in this process!
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Baldur Bjarnason ☛ A bit of a redesign
Generally speaking, I don’t think redesigns or rebrands are constructive. Change tends to jazz up interest and rebrands and redesigns are no exceptions, but I’m strongly of the opinion that brands genuinely don’t matter that much – whatever positive associations a brand has comes from consistency – and if companies invested the same time and effort into actually serving their customers, they would see the same effect.
But because we don’t exist in a multiverse, you can’t A/B test a rebranding or a identity redesign.
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Libre Arts ☛ LibreArts Weekly recap — 3 November 2024
Even though the newer official Fujifilm app is surprisingly usable (I can’t say that about the original one), there’s probably a place for an unofficial open-source one, too. This is what fudge is: an early Android application for remote capturing with your Fujifilm cameras. Here is a demo of an earlier version:
Newly released version 0.2 (and its bugfix update) comes with new features and QoL improvements, such as a gallery for downloaded images, mass file importing, better WiFi connectivity, and more. See here for details.
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Tim Janik: JJ-FZF - a TUI for Jujutsu
JJ-FZF is a TUI (Terminal-based User Interface) for Jujutsu, built on top
of fzf. It centers around the jj log view, providing key bindings for common
operations on JJ/Git repositories. About six months ago, I revisited JJ,
drawn in by its promise of Automatic rebase and conflict resolution.