OpenTF announces they're forking Terraform and joining the Linux Foundation. Meta introduces Code Llama. Matt Mullenweg shares WordPress.com's 100-year plan. Paul Gichuki learns that default behaviors stick. Marco Otte-Witte argues for using Rust on the web.
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OpenTF, an open-source group, has forked Terraform and joined the Linux Foundation to maintain its openness and vendor neutrality.
Thinkest discovered the impact of example choices in UI design, emphasizing the need to sweat small details and present multiple examples to users.
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OpenTF joins Linux Foundation to ensure open source and vendor neutrality
OpenTF, a group created to ensure Terraform stays truly open source forever, has announced that they have joined the Linux Foundation. By making the project part of the cloud native computing foundation, they aim to maintain the tool's openness and vendor neutrality. OpenTF completed all necessary documentation for the collaboration and has four companies committing engineers to the initiative, with more expected to join in the coming weeks.
Using examples in UI design: the impact of minor choices
Thinkest, a product design company, recently discovered the significant impact that example choices in their UI design can have. They used the string 'SUM prefix' as an example in a DNS configuration setting, and to their surprise, two out of every five users selected 'SUM prefix' as their subdomain. This revealed a pattern where users tend to default to the examples provided. Thinkest plans to address this by showing multiple prefix examples. This case highlighted the importance of sweating the small details in UI design and the need to carefully consider the examples presented to users.
OpenTF announces they’re forking Terraform and joining the Linux Foundation, Meta gets in the LLM-for-codegen game with Code Llama, Matt Mullenweg announces WordPress.com’s new 100-year plan, Paul Gichuki from Thinkst learns that default behaviors stick (and so do examples) & Marco Otte-Witte makes his case for Rust on the web.
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