Dear Lennart Poettering,
As the (arguably) most hated and yet quite adored Linux developer you are known to come up with new low-level solutions that streamline desktop experience. I hereby urge you to invent fontd. Here is why.
On top of that previous post there’s just one more thing that I think is worth talking about with regards to free software projects vs. corporations. It’s something I keep seeing every day: selfishness on both sides.
Did you ever think that there should be a reason why a lot of people think that free software developers are a bunch of jerks? I dare say, there are multiple reasons for that, and at least one of them signals a certain low level of maturity on the community’s side.
Since October 18, 2011, Google encrypts all search queries made by people who are logged into their Google accounts and had chosen HTTPS connection (the default). The net outcome is that web masters get a less precise picture, what key phrases bring visitors to their pages (the information is still somewhat available in Google Webmasters Tools).
At Libre Graphics World the percentage of “not provided” keywords has grown from ca. 8% in October 2011 to an average of 55% in November 2012, topping 61% at rare December 2012 days.
Do I give a damn? No, and here is why.
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I have to admit I admire Robin Rowe’s stubbornness. I really do. The guy’s got THE backbone. Attempting to keep alive the project that even its original developers considered to be a technical dead-end seems like a serious challenge for real men. I stand in awe whenever I recall that Cinepaint is still out there somewhere.
Apparently last week Robin made quite an amusing statement about CMake:
Autotools and CMake are just too exotic to expect anyone but an expert to support, a barrier to new programmers joining CinePaint.
Good gods, and to think that earlier this year KDE project celebrated yet another successful Google Summer of Code, having had 60 students? Clearly, there’s something fishy going on. All that youth must be CMake experts :)
Earlier this week Smashing Magazine published an article by Paul Boag titled “The Inconvenient Truth About SEO”. The author made quite a few good points which can be summarized as “Don’t be silly, do integrated marketing” which is exactly the way to go. Unfortunately, Paul also demonstrated a rather questionable understanding of SEO. Here is why.
It’s somewhat depressing to see how fairly intelligent people start writing bullshit and spreading FUD. But it’s even more depressing to see other intelligent people falling for it.
Previously I already wrote about some very basic rules of doing a good job at journalism. But what can readers do? Well, you can develop critical reading.