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Jacobinski

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Jacobinski··on Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub
True. It should however be noted that the most active maintainer of AnkiDroid will be joining the new entity:

> We’re currently talking to David Allison, a long-time core contributor to AnkiDroid, about working together on exactly these questions. His experience with AnkiDroid’s collaborative development is invaluable, and we’re grateful he’s willing to help us get this right. We’re incredibly excited to have him join us full-time to help propel Anki into the future.

Jacobinski··on Air quality reporting on iOS
The air quality index displayed is based on the current location that you have set to view the weather. If you want to switch to a different scale: add a new saved location, switch to it, and the view the AQI map.
Jacobinski··on Gopher Wrangling: Effective error handling in Go
In the last example, it is preferable to use `if errors.Is(err, context.DeadlineExceeded) {...}` instead of the given `if err == context.DeadlineExceeded {...}` since the `errors.Is()` function will recursively unwrap error chains to find the specified error.

https://go.dev/blog/go1.13-errors

Jacobinski··on Federal judge sanctions Seattle officials for deleting texts
How do these types of settlements usually work? Do the offending officials help pay for the settlement or are all the costs paid for using taxpayer money?