Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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Modus Create LLC ☛ Writing a formatter has never been so easy: a Topiary tutorial
A bit more than one year ago, Tweag announced our open-source, universal formatting engine Topiary, based on the tree-sitter ecosystem. Since then, Topiary has been serving as the official formatter (under the hood) for the Nickel configuration language. Topiary also supports a bunch of other languages (CSS, TOML, OCaml, Bash) and we are seeing people trying it out to support even more languages such as Catala, Nushell, Nix, and more. While I’ve kind of been part of the project from a distance, I’m first and foremost a happy user of Topiary, which I genuinely find really cool both conceptually and practically. While the technical documentation provides an extensive description of Topiary’s capabilities, it doesn’t include (as of now) a complete step-by-step guide on how to write a new formatter for your own language starting from zero. In this post, I’ll show you precisely how to do that.
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Web Browsers/Web Servers
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Mozilla
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Thunderbird ☛ Mozilla Thunderbird: VIDEO: The Thunderbird Mobile Team
The Thunderbird Mobile team are crafting the newest chapter of the Thunderbird story. In this month’s office hours, we sat down to chat with the entire mobile team! This includes Philipp Kewisch, Sr. Manager of Mobile Engineering (and long-time Thunderbird contributor), and Sr. Software Engineers cketti and Wolf Montwé (long-time K-9 Mail maintainer and developer, respectively). We talk about the journey from K-9 Mail to Thunderbird for Android, what’s new and what’s coming in the near future, and the first steps towards Thunderbird on your iOS devices!
Next month, we’ll be chatting with Laurel Terlesky, Manager of the UI/UX Design Studio! She’ll be sharing her FOSDEM talk, “Thunderbird: Building a Cross-Platform, Scalable Open-Source Design System.” It’s been a while since we’ve chatted with the design team, and it will be great to see what they’re working on.
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Openness/Sharing/Collaboration
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Open Data
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404 Media ☛ Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov
More than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from data.gov since Trump was inaugurated. But analyzing exactly what happened and where it went is going to take some time.
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