Week 27 of 2022

Weeklies are my notes of things not big enough for a blog post but worthy of being mentioned and linked to. Find all of my Weeklies at /weeklies.

This week I moved to a new country and that's taken most of my time and I have read way less than usually. And due to not having local mobile subscription yet, I've been mostly reading offline stuff rather than hanging out in the webs.

• Microsoft To Ban Commercial Open Source from App Store by Denver Gingerich and Bradley M. Kuhn

  Open source world had a few interesting news this week. First one came from Microsoft that decided to ban profiting from open source apps from their app store. Software Freedom Conservancy wrote a good article about why and how it's a problematic decision.

• Python Package Index starts requiring MFA for critical projects

  Another story from the open source world was Python Package Index – PyPI – requiring multi-factor auth for "critical projects", meaning 1% of the most downloaded ones. It caused a lot of discussion and strong opinions from both sides of the opinion.

• The Overlap of Screen Readers and Keyboard by Marcy Sutton

  Accessibility is a topic I'm always eager to learn more and this short example by Marcy Sutton about making sure to keep your interactions and state changes accessible to screen readers was a great read.

• vetovoima by Matias Klemola

  Matias built a fun game with Rust where you're in charge of gravity and movement of a block, attempting to manipulate the environment through changes in the intensity of the gravity to successfully navigate to your goal.