Niklas Buchfink

Design Engineer 👨🏻‍💻 & House DJ 🪩

[Niklas Buchfink @niklasbuchfink]

@samuelstroschei What was your VS Code Markdown preview plugin again that provides a preview with component rendering? I really like this because you can write everything without a running process and of course Copilot. Recommend it in the docs 😉

[Niklas Buchfink @niklasbuchfink]

@andreasklinger The only reason I opened the comments and I wasn't disappointed 😄

[Niklas Buchfink @niklasbuchfink]

It's been a long time coming, but now you can experience the @lixCCS change control system with it's own file manager

[Samuel Stroschein @samuelstroschei]

First public demo of the @lixCCS change control system

[Niklas Buchfink @niklasbuchfink]

@0xhbam We had the same insight when building @lixCCS that version control and AI automation are a excellent match. AI automation can suggest changes, you can review the differences and accept or reject them. Bonus: There is always a way to revert the changes

[Niklas Buchfink @niklasbuchfink]

@samuelstroschei @lixCCS That fantastic 👏

Reproducibility makes or brakes open source software. Everyone can hand in a bug with a broken file.
Everyone can fix the bug with the broken file.

[lix @lixCCS]

💡 Change graph as main interaction point to make history discoverable.

We were busy this week exploring concepts for the Lix File Manager, guided by the question: How can a user observe changes?

Answer: The change graph.

[Niklas Buchfink @niklasbuchfink]

From sketch to website in one week ✅

@_NilsJacobsen and I built the new @lixCCS website last week. From the sketch (left) to the design (right) to the finished website (https://t.co/ngYTTEr0Bs).

[Niklas Buchfink @niklasbuchfink]

@flornkm I think @felixhaberle and I still have https://t.co/B5YAikGVAO, but nothing on it 😅

[Niklas Buchfink @niklasbuchfink]

We build history tracking, diff views and commit management into Fink2.

🌍 Try the demo: https://t.co/bLuXf0OS9n
📖 Read the blog about our learnings: https://t.co/ZUOiLPlRue

[Niklas Buchfink @niklasbuchfink]

Final thoughts
The concepts demonstrate how change control features could be implemented in apps like Fink. To enhance collaboration across different departments involved in the translation process, these concepts could be generalized and integrated into the apps used by designers, developers and other stakeholders. With change control integrated into the translation project, every app can open the project so that users can review, edit and commit changes within their own environment.

If you now work in a team and ask yourself who changed something and what it was before, you know what is missing: change control.

[Niklas Buchfink @niklasbuchfink]

🧵Knowing what, when and how data changed is vital to collaboration. Yet most applications offer no change control. We asked ourselves: How would change control look in Fink?

Fink is our localization/CAT (computer-assisted translation) editor. You can check it out yourself here:
https://t.co/91AHw58pKp

Read below 🧵 or on Substack: https://t.co/AsXCEBGNmk

[Niklas Buchfink @niklasbuchfink]

Change History
Alongside each message, we display the historical data about recent changes and their context, including who made them and when. For more details, users can explore the full history of a single message. This detailed history highlights the differences between all changes. And if that’s still insufficient, they know whom to ask about the reasons behind a message change. Additionally, this information allows filtering messages to find recent changes or those committed by a specific user.

[Niklas Buchfink @niklasbuchfink]

I have changed my Twitter handle from @NBuchfink to @niklasbuchfink. This should be easier to find and remember 😉

[Niklas Buchfink @niklasbuchfink]

@mfts0 @gitbutler Me and the whole @inlangHQ/@lixCCS team will be there ✌️

[Niklas Buchfink @niklasbuchfink]

@flornkm @nilseller Yes please 🙏

[Niklas Buchfink @niklasbuchfink]

New DJ set with house & disco is out now 🪩

https://t.co/KcjgKBUObq

Thank you Waldzauber Festival, for giving me the opportunity to contribute a spell 🪄

[Niklas Buchfink @niklasbuchfink]

@nixcraft Who is the liar here?