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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/smari/statuses/113879242904080114">Smári McCarthy (smari@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 04:10:10 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@smari" title="smari@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/63372-48-20221210004358.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Smári McCarthy" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Smári McCarthy</a></section><article><p>It occurred to me that many of the quality qualms aimed at Free/Open Source are a reflection of an assumption of inherent quality made in the early days of the free software movement that got lost in Eternal September, rather than any inherent flaw in the idea of open, participatory development.</p><p>"Whether it be morality, or a culture of quality, to consider an important value so obvious as to not need stating is to invite that value to be disregarded or forgotten." </p><p><a href="https://smarimccarthy.is/posts/2025-01-23-quality-culture/" rel="nofollow">https://smarimccarthy.is/posts/2025-01-23-quality-culture/</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4434439#notice-8676059">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-01-24T04:10:10+09:00" title="Friday, 24-Jan-2025 04:10:10 JST">about 2 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@smari/113879242904080114" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@smari/113879242904080114">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="https://smarimccarthy.is/posts/2025-01-23-quality-culture/">Quality Culture</a></h5><div></div></header><div>Last year, upon an unintentional nerd snipe from a friend, I spent a weekend writing a pretty performant XML library in Jai. In order to make sure it handled things correctly I used the XML 1.1 test suite as conformance tests, even though realistically it consists to a very large degree of tests of weird encodings and bizarre edge cases. I got most of it done, but for the last year I’ve had this weirdly deep sense of guilt over not having finished adding support for UTF-16.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Smári McCarthy (smari@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 04:10:10 JST Smári McCarthy
It occurred to me that many of the quality qualms aimed at Free/Open Source are a reflection of an assumption of inherent quality made in the early days of the free software movement that got lost in Eternal September, rather than any inherent flaw in the idea of open, participatory development.
"Whether it be morality, or a culture of quality, to consider an important value so obvious as to not need stating is to invite that value to be disregarded or forgotten."
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  Last year, upon an unintentional nerd snipe from a friend, I spent a weekend writing a pretty performant XML library in Jai. In order to make sure it handled things correctly I used the XML 1.1 test suite as conformance tests, even though realistically it consists to a very large degree of tests of weird encodings and bizarre edge cases. I got most of it done, but for the last year I’ve had this weirdly deep sense of guilt over not having finished adding support for UTF-16.

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