April

Industrial Logic frames code quality as a set of seven “virtues” — qualities like clarity, simplicity, and testability — rather than a checklist of rules. It’s a useful vocabulary for code review conversations, giving teams shared language for why a change feels better or worse beyond “I don’t like it.”

via Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social): Attached: 1 image

Someone fed the text of the MIT License into Suno’s AI music generator with the prompt “sad girl with piano” and got back a genuinely affecting piano ballad. The highlight: it nails “WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY” with an Imogen Heap-style glissando, then immediately mangles “FITNESS” into “fistiff.”

via Ethan Sholly (@shollyethan@fosstodon.org): Today I’m launching a project I’ve been working on for several months - a browsable directory of self-hosted software:

Ethan Sholly of the This Week in Self-Hosted newsletter has published his entire database of self-hosted software projects as a browsable directory. You can filter by tags and by the commercial services they replace, and sort by repo stars, recent development activity, or name — with the whole thing refreshed daily from the database he maintains for the newsletter.