Still, Amphi should not claim to be 'Open Source'.

(if there's a better place to have this conversation than (ab)using this thread feel free to point the way. Assuming you wish to indulge me at all that is. ;-)

Before that the project was "work with these 25 people and help them open each project and fix the broken paths interactively" (because servers changed).

The script ran at night and everyone's things "just worked" the next morning. It was glorious.

Thanks Bram.

Mind you I only signed up a few weeks ago so can't speak to reliability over time.

A primary software at work is $1,500 to $10,000 a seat (depending on extensions) plus 10% annual maintenance. Our department annual fee is ~$70,000. I have a long list of "vote up this enhancement request or bug to get it fixed" that goes back almost two decades. (It's hard to identify the oldest because the vendor has switched tracking platforms twice.)

Lid is tight and leak proof. I trust it inside my pack. The handle and carabiner are essential components too. Handle hangs over bike handlebars, side of canoe or seat, belt. Carabiner does, well it does what carabiners do!

https://imgur.com/a/5f9rMA2 This pic is from 2014. It's lost the rubber base since then but none of its usefulness.

"Each 5-minute video, or 'cartoon', is the equivalent of 50 minutes of a university-level computer graphics class. ... there was no statistically significant difference in learning effectiveness between [cartoons & lectures] as measured by exam, homework, and project scores. In other words, the cartoons were just as effective as traditional classrooms for teaching the material."

https://g5m.cs.washington.edu/

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWfDJ5nla8UpwShx-lzLJqcp5...

My pet theory is that editors aren't as good as they used to be. Market pressure to publish faster and faster in a vain attempt to keep up with the internet means that fewer of them are given the time and support to get really skilled. Thus resulting in ham fisted edits that jar me out of reading flow, and thence to analysing why.

(This pressure operates the other way too. Many authors' works are pushed out the door when they should have had more editing. )

It is a concern for safety, or at least usually couched that way, but what I hear voiced most often is fear of other humans. From older bullying kids, to hoodlums, to drugs, to predators. In short, Stranger Danger. The "don't talk to strangers" refrain I remember hearing occasionally when I was kid in the 70s didn't seem to have much effect. We just kind of shrugged. Looking around today, I see it took deep root.

((Oh yes, pun intended. It's a beautiful thing when they also perfectly express the thought.))

The reason I bring it up is that in spite of this apparent misfit-to-topic is that it's a superb exemplar of what a local-first application can operate like. It does not sacrifice network presence and utility. I wish for more projects to work like Fossil does, only tackling different problem domains. (My personal vote is for blog or CMS.)