I work in technology sector. And I do round a clock, not only from 9 to 5. It is my bread and butter, it is my hobby, it is the fascination of my life. And with the current rate of change particular in information technology (IT), there is always something new to learn, to try, to talk about. I often post news, thoughts, and reviews. And when I do, this is the category I use.
Via this rant, I learned about this report, which shows who contributes the most to the Gnome project. Â I knew that Red Hat was doing a lot of Gnome, but I never knew how much it actually was.
Red Hat are the biggest contributor to the GNOME project and its core dependencies. Red Hat employees have made almost 17% of all commits we measured, and 11 of the top 20 GNOME committers of all time are current or past Red Hat employees. Novell and Collabora are also on the podium.
Way to go, Red Hat!
Sometimes I find wisdom in the most unexpected places.  Not that Matt’s blog is such a place, but I wasn’t expecting to find anything that enlightening in the comments to such a simplistic blog post – about centered backgrounds for Twitter.  The quote that I think more people should know is:
it’s hard to anticipate the complexity of something you didn’t write
Here is a beautiful screenshot for too.
A few times I found myself in the situation that I couldn’t even explain the complexity of a change that seemed so simple from the outside. Â And for some time now, when I hear the question “Why can’t they just do it? It’s so simple”, I have the answer ready – “They probably have more than one good reason for not doing it”.
Most of the times, when I donate money, I don’t really expect anything back. Â I don’t see them as an investment to the future of the person or organization, but rather a gratitude and appreciation for the past. Â It was also how I saw my support of Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Â Today I received a press release from EFF, which made me proud to be a member and also a little extra happy about the money I donated over the last few years. Â It’s a big win over Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which is one law that I never liked too much. Â Here is a quote to get you started:
San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention provisions today, carving out new legal protections for consumers who modify their cell phones and artists who remix videos — people who, until now, could have been sued for their non-infringing or fair use activities.
“By granting all of EFF’s applications, the Copyright Office and Librarian of Congress have taken three important steps today to mitigate some of the harms caused by the DMCA,” said Jennifer Granick, EFF’s Civil Liberties Director. “We are thrilled to have helped free jailbreakers, unlockers and vidders from this law’s overbroad reach.”
Continue reading the full press release and supporting documents.
As a side note, once again I am amazed at how much influence some American law has on my life, which happens to be far away from the United States territory. Â Being a daily user of many services provided by Americans and from the United States soil, I am impacted by rules and limitations faced by those people who provide those services.
I must have seen this video a trillion times by now. Â It entertains me on so many levels, that I think it’s absolutely genius. Â There is a lot of English swearing, so if you are easily offended, you’d better skip this one. Â Not Safe For Work (NSFW), unless you work in some cool technology company.
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Anyone who has been running a blog even for a couple of years, knows how annoying archives can get. Â Each year brings twelve monthly archives, and the more years you work, the more archives you have. Â And they just keep multiplying until there is no easy way to use them any more. Â For anyone who is suffering from this problem while using WordPress platform, I recommend a solution – Compact Archives plugin. Â If you are not on WordPress, chances are there is a similar plugin for your content management system, but even if there is none, creating one shouldn’t be a huge problem. Â See how it beautiful it is – in action on my newly re-created Archives page, or on the screenshot below.
Simple, intuitive, and scalable – just the way it should be.