Mark

Free Software enthusiast and information junkie. (Web Software Engineer by trade. Former Chair, Electron Ecosystem WG. I tweet for myself, not others.)

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

There are competitors that try to compete by tearing others down and there are competitors that compete by building themselves up. The former group is always a bunch of clowns and a huge red flag. The latter gets my respect. (This isn't a subtweet to anyone)

[Electron @electronjs]

Electron 28 has shipped! 🚢 In this release:

🍾 Added ESM support (a highly requested feature)
🌎 Updated to Chromium 120.0.6099.56
🛠️ Bug fixes & improvements

More details and release notes:
https://t.co/sApnceOIMr

[Electron @electronjs]

🎉 Electron turned 10 years old yesterday! To celebrate this milestone, we wrote a few words on the journey thus far:
https://t.co/pXkP0iOJzm

[April King 🌀 @CubicleApril]

me as a junior engineer: ugh, i am so tired of coding, can i please talk to someone for a few hours?

me as a staff engineer: ugh, i am so tired of talking to people, can i please code alone for a few hours?

[Mark @malept]

This has been a very long time coming. Thanks so much to the rest of the Electron Ecosystem WG for getting the stable release out! I wish I could have helped out more during this last push, but I'm so happy to see Electron Forge become an official Electron tool!

[Electron @electronjs]

🎉 We're excited to announce that Electron Forge v6.0.0 is now available!

This is the first major release of Forge since 2018, and aims to make packaging and distributing your Electron app even easier.

Read more about the v6.0.0 release here: https://t.co/adsu8pxalM

[Mark @malept]

@cassidoo The Electron Forge docs have a couple unopinionated guides: https://t.co/O7bUCl1z0n or https://t.co/DkrRsVs26q depending on whether you want to/use TypeScript

[Charity Majors @mipsytipsy]

i recently wrote a piece about the essential compact between engineering and management, and some basic guidelines to crafting an on call policy that doesn't suck.

(oncall being the topic that never dies 🧟‍♀️)

https://t.co/wqdCLyrTfW

[Charis Hill | they/them | 🇵🇸 😷 @BeingCharisBlog]

Shout-out to the other neurodivergents who use parentheses too much (to add context to make sure nothing is misunderstood) (because parentheses clarify our directness) (I hope this tweet makes sense).

[Mark @malept]

@jaredallard "Context canceled"

[Mark Imbriaco @markimbriaco]

Hot take: Anyone dunking on Atlassian about the fact that an outage like this could happen should not be trusted near production environments because they're either lying or don't have the experience to know what they're talking about.

[Devon Govett @devongovett]

My pet peeve in GitHub issues: “When can we expect a fix for this?”

Don’t do this. If you paid nothing, you can “expect” nothing in return. Doesn’t mean the issue won’t be fixed, just that you can’t expect it on your timeline. Use the project for free as is, or contribute!

[Cher Scarlett 🌌 @cherthedev]

🎉Washington will require all job postings to have salary band information posted on them on January 1, 2023.

Colorado has faced exclusion from software jobs because of this law, but good luck doing the same for coveted Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Apple engineers.

[Electron @electronjs]

🌌✨ Thank you for 100K stars on GitHub! https://t.co/GLWjbjGYCb

[Mark @malept]

@bitandbang I literally linked to that tweet for folks to use as a workaround while I was busy replacing dependencies. 😅

[Mark @malept]

@anaisbetts Well, that is a reason why we're working on better IPC documentation. Hopefully that will get released in the new year.

[Mark @malept]

@anaisbetts That generally doesn't make any sense to me, mostly because many of the changes are just config options which changed to secure-by-default.

[Mark @malept]

@anaisbetts I'd say the most interesting things that have changed (apart from typical API additions) are security & IPC related.
https://t.co/5JxB84Mdgg
That reminds me that I need to review a draft of our new IPC guide.
Also, Electron Forge has pretty much been completely rewritten.