Posts with tag opensource
  • Open source is a promotion tool

    7 minutes to read
    Big tech companies invest a lot of effort to sell us the point that every good programmer must have their own open source project. Many programmers have open source side projects, but quite few of them can explain why they waste their time on it. As a result, they work for free, to make big tech rich. Actually, open source can't make money for programmers, but may be useful as a promotion tool for them.
  • The web-browser is the most used program for me and for most users of the internet, so it is important for browser to work efficiently during daily use. Altough most browsers have embedded translation features and there exists a lot of browser extensions providing translation capabalities, I have found them to be not good enough and unacceptable for intensive use. This is why I have created Linguist - the ultimate browser extension for translation.
  • Write detailed description for each pull request

    2 minutes to read
    How often you start code review and can't understand how this changes fix the problem and even don't understand is reliable this changes or not? If it periodically happens, you should start write detailed description for each pull request.