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interpret how you will

i have a pixel 4, and it looks like i might be stuck with this phone forever if things keep going in the same direction (hopefully they don't). the pixel 4 isn't bad, but even on this i don't have the level of customization that i had back in the day with cyanogenmod etc. on my note 3 or epic 4g touch.

here are some requirements that i can think of:

    - not huge. small enough to use with 1 hand

    - able to root and install custom OS without too much difficulty/annoyance (the manufacturer doesn't actively try to stop you from modifying your own device)
    
    - able to use mint mobile

    - has a trackball (like the htc hero, that thing was fuckin awesome)

    - possibly some hardware buttons

I started an effort a few months ago to mirror some essential git repos from github in case github ever goes down or microsoft decides to do some shenanigans.

What repos would you like to mirrored?

And do you know of any existing good mirrors out there that host good repos?

literal shower-thought i had tonight as i was thinking about how at work we all don't like dealing with our helm charts because the syntax and structure ends up looking so ugly and it just feels wrong (not to mention the multiple different approaches of handling kubernetes resources in multiple different pipelines.

i try to see beyond any initial repulsion to weird looking code because i know that it may be super functional. but it got me thinking: what makes code beautiful? what makes code "high quality"? (other than that it results in a working, performant, and robust software program obviously).

so i'm curious -- can you show me the best code you've encountered? it can be a small snippet or it can be a "slice of a library" or an architecture etc. have you written anything yourself that you are super proud of?

Interested to see if I'm missing out on any better applications. I used to use [0] as a reference, but it doesn't seem to have changed much over the years.

Here's Mine: - text editor: geany and vim/neovim - IDE: vim/neovim, vscode - web browser: firefox - window manager: openbox - taskbar: tint2 - GUI filemanager: thunar - terminal multiplexer: tmux - media player: vlc

[0]: https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/List_of_recommended_GNU/Linux_software

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8gvQLt4k2U

Is there anyone here who works on android at google? What's it like? I'm curious about the new dev verification requirements: https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides

Can you give a rundown on how those rules came about? What do the other developers think about the rules and the future of android?

Also, why did you switch away from the alphabetical naming conventions for the android versions?

I'm posting this because I haven't heard anything about this from anyone who actually works on android. Figure this would be a good place to post.