I like #comics, #food, #FOSS (#opensource) and #web things.
I am a co-maintainer of #Kresus but I also try my best to make existing projects more usable through plugins, like for #Firefox, #FreshRSS or #Roundcubemail.
| Kresus | https://kresus.org |
| Liberapay | https://liberapay.com/nicofrand/ |
| Blog | https://nicofrand.eu |
| ThreePanesView (FreshRSS plugin) | https://framagit.org/nicofrand/xextension-threepanesview |
TypeScript 6.0 is now available!
This release brings better type-checking for methods, new standard library features, new module features for Node.js, and more!
But most important, this release brings us one step closer to the upcoming native-speed 7.0!
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-6-0/
At Thunderbird, we firmly believe in the strength of listening to our community’s needs and wants, and balancing it with our resources and capabilities. While this has always been part of our ethos, we want to start 2026 by making our goals easier to read and comprehend at roadmaps.thunderbird.net, where you will find our roadmaps […]
The LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has discovered a new particle consisting of two charm quarks and one down quark, a similar structure to the familiar proton, but with two heavy charm quarks replacing the two up quarks of the proton, thus quadrupling its mass. The discovery, presented at the ongoing Moriond conference, will help physicists better understand how the strong force binds protons, neutrons and other composite particles together. Quarks are fundamental building blocks of matter and come in six flavours: up, down, charm, strange, top and bottom. They usually combine in groups of twos and threes to form mesons and baryons, respectively. Unlike the stable proton, however, most of these mesons and baryons, which are collectively known as hadrons, are unstable and short-lived, making them a challenge to observe. Producing them requires smashing together high-energy particles in a machine such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). These unstable hadrons will quickly decay, but the more stable particles that are produced as a result of this decay can be detected and the properties of the original particle can therefore be deduced. Researchers have used this approach many times to find new hadrons, and the new particle just announced by the LHCb Collaboration brings the total number of hadrons discovered by LHC experiments up to 80. “This is the first new particle identified after the upgrades to the LHCb detector that were completed in 2023, and only the second time a baryon with two heavy quarks has been observed, the first having being observed by LHCb almost 10 years ago,” says LHCb Spokesperson Vincenzo Vagnoni. “The result will help theorists test models of quantum chromodynamics, the theory of the strong force that binds quarks into not only conventional baryons and mesons but also more exotic hadrons such as tetraquarks and pentaquarks.” In 2017, LHCb reported the discovery of a very similar particle, which consists of two charm quarks and one up quark. This up quark is the only difference between this particle and the new one, which has a down quark in its place. Despite the similarity, the new particle has a predicted lifetime that is up to six times shorter than its counterpart, due to complex quantum effects. This makes it even more challenging to observe. By analysing data from proton–proton collisions recorded by the LHCb detector during the third run of the LHC, the LHCb Collaboration observed the new baryon with a statistical significance of 7 sigma, well above the threshold of 5 sigma required to claim a discovery. “This major result is a fantastic example of how LHCb’s unique capabilities play a vital role in the success of the LHC,” says Mark Thomson, CERN Director-General. “It highlights how experimental upgrades at CERN directly lead to new discoveries, setting the stage for the transformative science we expect from the High-Luminosity LHC. These achievements are only possible thanks to the exceptional performance of CERN’s accelerator complex and the teams who make it all work and to the commitment of the scientists on the LHCb experiment.” Further information: LHCb presentation at Moriond is available here. LHCb news article.
New side project: I'm making WebBee 🙈
It is a conversational web-dev agent – one that doesn't burn the planet or steal other people's code. They can turn English language into structured English language. Add components, install packages, scaffold pages, run framework CLIs. All that without requiring a ton of RAM or scraping open source :)
WebBee is a little silly, but fully deterministic, and you can teach them routine tasks.
De très nombreuses communes ont un maire "sans étiquette".
Je propose de les étiqueter en fonction de leur vote aux sénatoriales.
Ça permettra de compter les droitos qui ne s'assument pas 🤔
TypeScript
Planet Mozilla
mleduc
Geoff 🏴
Lea Rosema
John Shaft
Laurent Magréault