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Transcript of my #GUADEC talk - Paying technical debt in our accessibility infrastructure - https://viruta.org/paying-technical-debt-transcript.html

Paying technical debt in our accessibility infrastructure - Transcript from my GUADEC talk - Federico's Blog

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Will Thompson
Will Thompson
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Thanks for posting this transcript and for the informative & well-written talk, as ever!

Highlights for me:

- Filling in the gaps in my knowledge of GNOME a11y history
- GitLab has inline code coverage markers on MRs 🤯
- Big recursion energy to fix the a11y of the code coverage tool used by the a11y code
- The Gru's Plan meme reminded me of the first paragraph of this 10½-year-old post by Colin which I think about at least once a month https://blog.verbum.org/2011/12/06/the-gpl-and-distributing-binaries/

The GPL and distributing binaries

Of late I’ve become the “build guy” in GNOME it seems. One thing I want to clear up is I do not actually care about building just because I think it’s fun or interesting in …
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Jordan Petridis
Jordan Petridis
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I had no idea about the inline code coverage markers either till I watched this, lol
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Federico Mena Quintero
Federico Mena Quintero
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Thanks! I remember Colin first telling me about ostree during the walk to the A Coruña lunch site, and me being fascinated by the possibilities.

(Basically I'm a newbie to this reproducible-stuff, but now I understand its value.)
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