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Waldir Pimenta 4d ago

I really enjoyed this episode of the #BetweenTheBrackets podcast featuring @Wittylama about the past, present and future of #Wikipedia at its 25th birthday: https://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-200-liam-wyatt

The themes of reduced (direct) readership, shifting habits of information consumption, AI crawl-bots and long-term sustainability via explicitly symbiotic partnerships, were touched upon with clear thought and insightful remarks. The Wikimedia movement is lucky to have Liam in the #WikimediaEnterprise initiative!

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast: Episode 200: Liam Wyatt

🕑 1 hour 14 minutes It's the (belated) 25th anniversary of the founding of Wikipedia - and the 200th episode! For this special episode, we have the return of Liam Wyatt (username Wittylama), a longtime Wikipedia volunteer and commentator, the first-ever Wikipedian-in-residence, and now a Senior Technical Partnerships Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation, to talk about Wikipedia's past, present and future. Links for some of the topics discussed: at Internet Archive (video) (November 2025 Diff blog post) (January 2026 blog post) (November 2025 GLAM-Wiki talk by Liam) (May 2025 presentation by Giuseppe Lavagetto) (January 2026 essay by Christophe Henner)

Waldir Pimenta 6d ago

Liberapay 6d ago

Today is the 10th anniversary of Liberapay's launch!

In its first decade, Liberapay processed donations worth a total of around 5 million euros, from more than 40k donors in more than 110 countries to more than 3500 recipients in more than 80 countries.

Thank you all.

To keep making the world a better place, everyone who uses Liberapay to collect donations, including Liberapay itself, needs *your* support. Browse the website. Donate if you can. Spread the word.

→ https://liberapay.com/

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We help you fund the creators and projects you appreciate.

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Waldir Pimenta Feb 2

It's interesting how this maps to Wikipedia's #WikiGnome editors, who fix typos, format citations, clean up templates, etc. Not as flashy as WikiDragons writing whole new articles from scratch, or doing massive refactors, but the encyclopedia couldn't function without the quiet behind-the-scenes work of the gnomes.

Waldir Pimenta Feb 2

I really liked @vsauce@physi.cc's remark in https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxKN6ENEU2fVIi-F3fBZ6zodTwahjeJx38?si=DRAJw5SyOkk9D5uY about the notion that "genius takes a village" — i.e. how every great discovery stands not just on the shoulders of giants, but on "invisible shoulders" too — of ordinary, unremarkable, infrastructural work that unlocks the opportunities and conditions for progress leaps to emerge.

✂️ Genius takes a village — Michael Stevens & Hannah Fry on how every great discovery stands on "invisible shoulders"

47 seconds · Clipped by Waldir Pimenta · Original video "The Letter That Changed Mathematics" by The Rest Is Science

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Waldir Pimenta Jan 30

Hurray! The micro CLI text editor now (since v2.0.15, released 31 Dec 2025) supports easily toggling options — including with keyboard shortcuts!

To get an effect similar to VS Code's Alt+Z shortcut, open the editor, press Ctrl+E to open the command bar, type "bind Alt-z command:toggle softwrap" (without the quotes) and press Enter. Enjoy! ✨

Thanks to GitHub user cutelisp, who implemented this in pull request https://github.com/micro-editor/micro/pull/3783

Add toggle & togglelocal command by cutelisp · Pull Request #3783 · micro-editor/micro

This adds toggleandtogglelocal` command as requested here #2086. Not sure if this is the most correct approach, I found settings code a bit confusing and with non-intuitive variable names and behav...

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Waldir Pimenta Jan 30

It's a great complement to the `git delete-squashed` alias described in https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/git-delete-squashed, or the equivalent `git dams` script, whose motivation blog post is worth a read: https://whitep4nth3r.com/blog/how-to-delete-all-squash-merged-local-git-branches-with-one-terminal-command/

GitHub - not-an-aardvark/git-delete-squashed: Delete branches that have been squashed and merged into main

Delete branches that have been squashed and merged into main - not-an-aardvark/git-delete-squashed

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Waldir Pimenta Jan 30

If you're like me and are anxious about deleting local git branches without making sure they've been fully integrated into the main branch (e.g. after a squash merge, integration of suggestions from reviewers/maintainers, etc.), check out this alias: https://gist.github.com/waldyrious/dd9ce48bd320351fed9c1e96094ba427

Git merge-diff alias

Git merge-diff alias. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Waldir Pimenta Jan 29

Open Source Pledge Jan 29

Please welcome Railway as the newest member of the Open Source Pledge 🎉

They rely on OSS projects like @vite, TanStack, Drizzle and Tailwind, and they're doing their part to sustain the ecosystem, from which we all benefit.

Read all about it:

https://blog.railway.com/p/funding-open-source?r=1

Railway Runs Open Source, Now We're Funding It

We're funding the open source tools our community deploys every day, backed by the system where maintainers get paid.

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Waldir Pimenta Jan 28

I'm certainly happy for #cplusplus finally getting a less verbose hello world syntax: https://youtube.com/shorts/k4F2V_BXMlI

But I can't help feeling cheated with all these languages (C++, Java, PHP, etc.) gaining ergonomic features years after I stopped using them 😭

"Hello World" has CHANGED in C++!

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