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Episode 3:09: The Pico-Sized History of Nano

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  1. Dropping out of the fediverse
  2. The tiny text
  3. Mozilla Watch
  4. The community holds us ransom
  5. Our app is faster than light

    6. 0:00 Cold Open

    2:26 Press 'F' to Pay Respects
    9:47 The Elm Mail System
    10:56 Enter, PINE
    11:44 PICO, the PIne COmposer
    13:17 TIP Is not PICO
    14:23 NANO's ANOther editor
    14:57 "Lightning and the rest of 2000
    17:37 2001, and the release of 1.0
    18:49 2002-2015, Allegretta's gone and back again
    21:37 The Drama in 2016
    24:17 2016 to 2022, and my, how boring things got
    25:13 About nano, and What's Next
    31:26 Mozilla Watch
    38:44 Feedback!
    46:59 Community Focus: The Ransomware Files
    48:57 App Focus: Warp
    53:39 Next Time: Kali Linux
    56:31 Stinger

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    • Dan moves on Mastodon because the instance he is on is going away.
    • So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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        • History Series on Text Editors - GNU Nano
        • GNU Nano
        • Dave Taylor's Elm Mail System
        • Laurence Lundblade and his cohorts were looking for something that had ease-of-use written all over it.
        • Enter, Pine. The [freeware-like](wayback.archive.org/web/20001201215500/http://www.washington.edu/pine/overview/legal.html) answer.
        • "freeware-ish" label wasn't good enough. So, in 1999, Chris Allegretta, made changes to address that.
        • TIP, which stood for TIP Is not Pico, 0.5.0 README.
        • 2016 Looking for a new maintainer.
        • Still looking
        • Nano leaves GNU in 2.6.0
        • Debian acknowledged and accepted the change.
        • Come back to GNU in 2.7.0.
        • Latest release August 2, 2022.
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            • Mozilla Watch
            • Firefox 106 is out!
            • .pdf support keeps getting better and better
            • private browsing shortcut
            • Firefox view
              • Housekeeping

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                        • Community Focus
                        • The Ransomware Files
                          • App Focus

                          Warp

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