Pelle Wessman
Swedish web developer, open source maintainer, creator, non-influenser, #nodejs user, anti-bullying
🌎: voxpelli.com
🐘: mastodon.social/@voxpelli
👨💻: github.com/voxpelli
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- Pondering a new information campaign.
- It’s kind of problematic that so much of communication and coordination within many current day OSS movements are happening in closed forums like Discord where they can’t be searched or accessed from the wider web.
- I think this is the respectful and welcoming way we should go about things in the community. We should support maintainers and users both and we should pick the right avenues for each and also be careful with critique as that tends to come across as unwelcoming, disrespectful etc.
- Mentioned the acronym KISS in a Slack thread right now, but “Keep It Simple Stupid” is quite toxic really while the principle itself is good, so I explained it as “Keep It Simple Sweetheart” – can we start referring to it as that?
- Reposted by Pelle WessmanScott Riley tested free and open source design tools out when researching his course, Mindful Design. They actually worked out better than Figma ever could, as he explains in this article with loads of options for you. piccalil.li/blog/the-ope...
- This is huge! Finally TypeScript by default will actually be fully typed? No more non-strict null checks where “undefined” is ignored throughout the type system. No more implicit any where the lack of an explicit or infered type implies that any type goes. Many devs will have to learn new skills
- Reposted by Pelle WessmanThis is very popular, yet WILDLY poor advice: “Be constructive, don’t complain about problems if you don’t have a solution” If you hear someone say this, please consider slapping them with a large trout. Being aware of problems is *incredibly valuable*, whether you have solutions or not! [1/n]
- Really sad to see maintainer-hostile features like this being celebrated and applauded when the maintainer is given no chance for a rebuttal to the “community” claims. If we want to create a sustainable environment for open source maintainers we can’t endorse semi-bullying campaigns like this.
