My previous employer used to plan "express checkout" weeks for developers. In between two larger projects, you'd get the chance to spend two weeks doing nothing other than picking low-hanging fruits off the bug-tracker tree.<p>It worked miracles, with minor-but-irritating bugs getting solved much faster, and with features for niche groups getting implemented as opposed to laying in wait for a bigger project it would thematically fit in.<p>Some devs even went out of their way to spend those two weeks on a single, irritating, deeply-rooted bug that nobody in their right mind would even want to fix.
I didn't know this person before:<p><a href="https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/category/emacs/" rel="nofollow">https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/category/emacs/</a><p>A banking CTO who contributes a lot in emacs.<p>I really like the image editing he did. Thank you for posting this. Made my day.
Idea for famous billionaires: support FOSS software and bug squashing streaks like this.<p>It automatically ensues positive image and accelerates advancement of humanity in science and tech, especially for programs that are core to everyday life of developers, like editors.<p>Someone tag Mr Musk.
I find it inspiring to see how a interpreter that outlives me has such passionate and skilled contributors keeping it alive or rather, rejuvenating it with new life. Also impressed by the notion that someone could obtain such a strong command of, what I would consider, a somewhat "intimidating" codebase to own.<p>Happy Emacs user here and excited/grateful to see how well the ecosystem is currently doing.
Heh! He closed one of mine!<p>Emacs bugs I've reported can vary from "I'd like this behaviour" to "something ain't right here" to "docs are borked on <subject>". Emacs is so stable there's not many crashing bugs to report.<p>Emacs devs are great btw, tolerant of occasional n00bishness and very responsive.
Why would you want an image-manipulation feature in a text editor (unless you were a developer who thought that it'd be a fun thing to work on)? That sounds like bloat of the worst kind...
I really dont like the first chart that shows only data between 1900 and ~2600. For me it is "lying with statistics 101".<p>I much prefer the full chart. Of course one could say that they dont see the details in the full chart, but it is not the situation here.<p>Also good work.