There was a roast my github profile site going around recently so as a counter to that someone made a praise my github profile. Enter your profile and get an AI complimenting you

Theres been some weekly posts in some communities for people to share updates (weekly thread in !rust@programming.dev and screenshot saturday in !gamedev@programming.dev ) so figured would try to run a generalized version in the main programming community!

If youve worked on something this week feel free to share it below. If you have a project to show off in general we also have the !showoff@programming.dev community in the instance that you can post in

Currently supports any instance running a lemmy compatible api (lemmy, pangora, etc.)

Lets you generate and then copy shields.io style badges to show different stats exposed by the api

For example for this community I can generate badges such as

Subscribers

Monthly Active Users

etc.

Theres a system built in that lets you customize how they look and then generate them again with those looks. Supports badges for instances, communities, or users

Link again just in case your software doesnt handle the first one

For anyone interested, advent of code is about to start! (first puzzles dropping at midnight ET which is in around 11 hours)

We have a community in the instance at !advent_of_code@programming.dev for discussion about the event and that will have solution threads where you can post and compare against other people

Advent of code is a programming puzzle advent calendar where new puzzles drop every day until the 25th. They can be done in any language and puzzles are released on the AoC site

https://adventofcode.com/

Hello everyone! I've pushed out a public alpha build to https://beta.pangora.social for people to start giving feedback on the design before it becomes more fleshed out

Feel free to check it out and say what you like or dont like in the comments here.

The UI there is currently pointing to the programming.dev instance

⚠ Warning: This is an alpha, things are still very unfinished. You cant use this as an alternative to lemmy-ui yet since things such as logging in aren't supported

⚠ Warning 2: If you attempt to use this on mobile currently it will be very broken

I constructed the UI by seeing what people liked from lemmy-ui, alexandrite, and photon and trying to match it up to how lemmy-ui is built so that it would be an easy switch between them

Main site mechanics that is different from lemmy-ui

• Comments from cross-posts show up when looking at a post (will be changed in the future to only communities that community has whitelisted to do it for once I mess around in the backend more)
• Comments and posts that have 0 or less score in terms of upvotes/downvotes will be collapsed by default
• Clicking on a post in the post feed makes it show up overlayed on top of the feed similar to alexandrite's system instead of sending you to a new page. (hitting the name of the post when in this preview state will send you to the actual page)

Images:

https://pangora.social/join

Hey everyone! I recently finished up an instance selector similar to join-lemmy. There are a couple issues with join-lemmy with it sending the majority of people to the general purpose instances instead of growing the niche instances, as well as giving people way too many options at once which can turn into choice paralysis.

The selector will be the default when people visit the pangora site and people can also use it to select lemmy instances instead of using join-lemmy since im keeping pangora and lemmy as close to each other as possible.

How it works:

• Users are presented with 10 main categories (technology, sports, art, etc.). They can choose one which will be the category of content they primarily look at
• ~~If a category has no subcategories they will then be sent to a random instance for that category (e.g. if they choose sports they get sent to fanaticus)~~ Update: If a category has no subcategories they are shown a preview of a random instance for that category (e.g. if they choose sports they get a preview of fanaticus to look at and then possibly click visit)
• Else if a category has subcategories they are then shown those to pick from (e.g. technology when selected will show programming, radio, etc.) (and when selected repeat previous step)

I added almost every active instance to the site so feel free to use it to check out some other instances for various topics

Hope you enjoy :)

site: https://pangora.social/join
source code: https://github.com/PangoraWeb/pangora.social

Hey everyone! Figured I would do a post about this bot here to get the word out that it exists. I recently brought back online and updated my remindme bot to 1.4 to make it comply with the lemmy.world bot guidelines.

This bot works across the fediverse but is primarily aimed at Pangora, Lemmy, and Kbin communities.

It functions on an allowlist in terms of what communities it participates in so if you want your community to be able to use it put a request by creating an issue in in the repository and itll get added

This bot aims to give people an easy way to remind themselves about an event on the fediverse. For example if theres something releasing in a couple months people can set a reminder using @RemindMe@programming.dev 2 months and they will get a reply to that message 2 months from then reminding them about it so they can check it out. (reminders are handled by replies so that it functions in kbin communities, and so that users from platforms such as mastodon can also use it in the communities)

Bot is fully open source so feel free to make pull requests with new features if you want or customize it to adapt it for your community if you want to self host.

Hope you enjoy it :) (note bot does not work here since this community isnt in the allowlist currently but theres a crossposted post in programming.dev that it works in if you want to test it out)

Repository: https://github.com/PangoraWeb/remindme-bot
Matrix Space for Pangora: https://matrix.to/#/#pangora:matrix.org

Hey everyone! I'm Ategon one of the admins over in programming.dev

I noticed theres been a lack of a bridge of communication between the various fediverse platforms. Lemmy has our own little matrix space that people in lemmy have been talking to each other in, kbin also has their own, and mastodon doesnt really have a central location for pure communication

As such ive started up a Fediverse Hub matrix space so that we can all talk to each other and get on the same page. Hopefully from this we can also work together and discuss to get the cross platform federation working better between the various platforms (instead of things like the mess that is the current Mastodon & Lemmy interactions)

If youre a developer of a fediverse platform, an admin of a fediverse instance, or want to check to see whats going on feel free to join

https://matrix.to/#/#fediverse-hub:matrix.org

Hey everyone, the content vote ended and here are the results of what people voted for

Reminder that voting was single transferable vote. If two options were tied the one with a worse average placement in all votes was eliminated

(if someone didnt give a second choice then no other options get their vote)

Crosspost community was eliminated first with no first place votes, then main community (second place votes represented in dark blue), then general community (second place votes represented in light blue)

The overall most voted option was Option 2: People catching community. This means that for the community all content relating to the instance is allowed but people will be directed towards more specific communities relevant to their post in the replies. This should then let people be able to post here with no friction and then get filtered down into the proper communities to help make them more active

As there was significantly less votes than the amount of subscribers in the community I will be running a follow up poll in a week to see if people like how the community is being run or if we need to do another poll to change the instance content again.

Linker Bot

Ive been making a bot for the instance called Linker that posts links to communities in the replies when someone posts a non relative instance link. That feature got implemented into lemmy itself in v18 (it will give autocomplete options when you start typing !insertcommunitynamehere on web) so ill be adapting the bot to fit this community to help with the people catching. The bot api is a bit broken right now so it unfortunately wont be able to work for a bit but until then it would be a huge help if you guys do links to mentioned communities in the comments (it only has to be done once so it doesnt spam the replies)

The format im using for bot messages is something similar to

Hey! Here are some possibly relevant communities in the instance based on what was mentioned

- Link to community 1
- etc for any other communities

I am a bot and this message was created automatically

Feel free to adapt that or make your own

Community Request

Just wanted to do a quick advertisement for the community request community here in the instance at !community_request@programming.dev . The community is always open to suggest communities to be added to the instance and make sure to upvote ideas there you want added to show the interest in them. Since the discussion community option didnt win if you feel the discussion posts are getting buried by the other content you can suggest a new community for that (or for whatever topic the discussion is about if its general enough)

Mods

If anyone is interested in helping mod the community feel free to reach out to me. Ideally want at least one other person to moderate this community so I can stop moderating and focus on some more admin tasks around the instance including developing some new features for it

Hey everyone

Theres been some discussion recently about the content allowed in this community so I wanted to make a quick poll to gauge what is wanted in terms of what people see here

The current description of the community is a bit ambiguous so this will determine whether everything is allowed here or if only more general programming topics are

You can just dm me with options ranked based on your preference (its ranked voting) to vote and ill share the results in a day of the overall vote tallies

1: Allow all posts relevant to the instance (main community)

This will let pretty much any post be able to be posted in here whether that be a help question, discussion, news, etc.

Allowed:

• What is your favorite music to listen to while programming?
• Has anyone else seen this interesting “challenge site” when googling a programming topic?
• Intellij and docker on vm memory issues
• [HELP][Python] How to use Selenium correctly
• Announcing TypeScript 5.2 Beta
• Discussion ES6 Classes. Good or Evil?

Disallowed

• Things not relevant to the instance

2: Allow any posts and direct people in the comments to more specific communities for their future posts (people catching community)

This will also let any post be able to be posted in here like the previous option but will guide people towards the more specific communities in the future to make them then post the content in those

Allowed:

• What is your favorite music to listen to while programming?
• Has anyone else seen this interesting “challenge site” when googling a programming topic?
• Intellij and docker on vm memory issues
• [HELP][Python] How to use Selenium correctly
• Announcing TypeScript 5.2 Beta
• Discussion ES6 Classes. Good or Evil?

Disallowed

• Things not relevant to the instance

3: Only allow topics that arent limited to one language, library, etc. (general topic community)

This will let posts such as: what is your favorite music to listen to while coding? or Here is some details about functional programming be able to be posted while something like a library for python will instead be posted in the python community

Allowed:

• What is your favorite music to listen to while programming?
• Has anyone else seen this interesting “challenge site” when googling a programming topic?

Disallowed

• Things not relevant to the instance
• Intellij and docker on vm memory issues
• [HELP][Python] How to use Selenium correctly
• Announcing TypeScript 5.2 Beta
• Discussion ES6 Classes. Good or Evil?

4: Dont allow questions of how to do X in X language but allow actual discussions or news about the language in addition to general topics (general & discussion community)

Like above but also allows conversations about specific languages in the community as long as its not a question on how to do X in the language

Allowed:

• What is your favorite music to listen to while programming?
• Has anyone else seen this interesting “challenge site” when googling a programming topic?
• Announcing TypeScript 5.2 Beta
• Discussion ES6 Classes. Good or Evil?

Disallowed

• Things not relevant to the instance
• Intellij and docker on vm memory issues
• [HELP][Python] How to use Selenium correctly

5: Only allow crossposts into the community with things like news being posted in the specific community first (crosspost community)

This will ONLY let crossposts be made. All other options also allow crossposts but this makes it so that the post will fill up the specific community while c/programming is a main post feed for people who want to see many different topics from the specific communities

Allowed

• anything as long as its crossposted

Disallowed

• anything not crossposted
• things not relevant to the instance

You can find some past discussion here https://programming.dev/post/388375 to see some points for the different options

Based on whats voted some other communities may be created or adapted to fit the new niche of people

(ill reply to your dm when your vote is counted, if I havent responded in awhile I may not have gotten it or im asleep)