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Quite recently I released a small article discussing if you (as a developer) should upgrade to Vista to take advantage of DirectX 10 functionality only available in Windows Vista. Quite simply the answer was “yes” in my article. As a developer you should always take advantage of new technologies, specially if that technology will replace an existing technology.

HotHardware.com has released an article more aimed towards the end-user than the developer which discusses the State of DirectX 10. In this article both performance and image quality are evaluated to give a fair estimation.

It’s 13 pages long but worth the read, check it out at HotHardware.com.

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mkdocs-alias-plugin 0.11.0 Release

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The latest version, v0.11.0, of the mkdocs-alias-plugin is now available here. This new version adds the ability to use interwiki-style links, using the following syntax:

[[w:Hypertext]]
or
[[w:Hypertext|The Article on Hypertext]]
or
[[w:Hypertext#History|The History of Hypertext]]

The prefix (w: in the example) can be configured through the plugin’s options and can point to any external site.

mkdocs-alias-plugin is an MkDocs plugin allowing links to your pages using a custom alias such as [[my-alias]] or [[my-alias|My Title]].

License Laundering a Copyleft Project

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An image of a branch covered in ice. Pretty cold.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer; this is not legal analysis, nor legal advice, just an opinion.

Mark Pilgrim, the original creator of chardet recently opened a GitHub issue on the project after he found that the project he started was relicensed under the MIT license from the original LGPL, a process generally referred to as license laundering. The current maintainer, Dan Blanchard, rewrote the project “from scratch” using Claude, changed its license, and assigned the copyrights to himself, claiming this was an independent implementation done in a clean room environment.

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mkdocs-live-edit-plugin 0.4.0 Release

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The latest version of the mkdocs-live-edit-plugin, v0.4.0, is now available here on PyPI!

Changes:

  • Feature: support for custom documentation file directories through the new option user_docs_dir
  • Bug fix: fix for a TypeError in the plugin config

Furthermore, this latest version enables the usage of the mkdocs-live-wysiwyg-plugin, which, as its name implies, replaces the plain textarea in mkdocs-live-edit-plugin with a WYSIWYG Markdown editor. This plugin uses mkdocs-live-edit-plugin as a dependency; pretty cool stuff!

mkdocs-live-edit-plugin is an MkDocs plugin that allows editing pages directly from the browser.

California AB-1043 Knock-On Effects

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"Justice isn't blind, she carries a big stick" by Jason Rosenberg on Flickr Image Credit: “Justice isn’t blind, she carries a big stick” by Jason Rosenberg on Flickr

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer; this is not legal analysis, nor legal advice, just an opinion.

The way too short and ambiguous California bill AB-1043 seems to have the potential to do real damage to the software industry. It aims to consolidate age-verification at the operating system and application distribution levels seemingly without understanding what either actually are.

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