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Re:Patrick Stewart has died on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:16PM (#50296126)
Engage.
My coworker Toby Crawley recently developed this Firefox plugin to randomize the order of files in GitHub PR reviews:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/github-pr-fil...

Re:Pivotal Tracker will shut down on Thursday September 19, 2024 @10:59AM (#41592610)
I help build Shortcut (https://www.shortcut.com/) and I think it fits the bill of light—but not spartan—on customization and day-to-day management.

To set up a new Shortcut workspace:

1. Sign up 2. Invite teammates, group them into teams if desired 3. Activate the GitHub/Gitlab/Bitbucket integration, so as engineers work via VCS their work in Shortcut progresses automatically 4. Set your workspace's timezone 5. Turn on/off Iterations (sprints) based on your process. Unfinished stories can be set to automatically roll from one iteration to the next. 6. Turn on/off point estimation based on your process

Then start writing Stories (tickets/issues) to track work.

Going further: Stories can be grouped into Epics. Epics can be grouped into Objectives (with associated Key Results if that's your thing). You can put Epics on a Roadmap to "share out" what your team is planning to work on. All optional, based on how you work and the size of your org.

Re:Pivotal Tracker will shut down on Thursday September 19, 2024 @10:49AM (#41592512)
Shortcut (https://www.shortcut.com/) is a solid alternative to Pivotal Tracker. I work as an Engineering Manager there and helped build an importer for Pivotal Tracker data into Shortcut (https://github.com/useshortcut/api-cookbook/tree/main/pivota...).

Shortcut as a product is team-oriented with solid GitHub/Gitlab/Bitbucket and Slack integrations.

Re:ClojureScript on Thursday July 21, 2011 @08:54AM (#2789271)
To better understand how different ClojureScript is from CoffeeScript, read the last paragraph on the ClojureScript wiki's Rationale page: https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki/Rationale

It's purpose is not to compile down to vanilla, readable JavaScript, but rather to make it easy to write production-ready JavaScript applications that can easily leverage the "advanced mode" of the Google Closure compiler.