Analysis of Mozilla's public AI paper, highlighting the benefits of small, open-source language models for efficiency, privacy, and global access.
Mitchell Hashimoto announces a $300,000 personal pledge to support the Zig programming language and its software foundation.
A critical opinion piece arguing for the removal of Matt Mullenweg from WordPress leadership due to recent actions and conflicts of interest.
The Big Book of R adds five new free, open-source books covering R programming for production, survey analysis, causal inference, biodiversity data, and natural resources.
Introducing the OpenSauced Pizza GitHub Action, a tool to automate repository management tasks like updating CODEOWNERS within GitHub workflows.
Explores funding models for open source software, including foundations, donations, and venture capital, and their impact on sustainability.
Introducing GestureButton, a new open-source SwiftUI component for handling custom gestures in iOS development.
A retrospective analysis of the Rust-for-Linux project's progress, challenges, and developer burnout, two years after its initial proposal.
Learn how to use a GitHub Action to automatically update your GitHub profile with an OpenSauced Dev Card showcasing your open source contributions.
Author reflects on being named a Python Software Foundation Fellow, highlighting community contributions and shared recognition with Adam Johnson.
The author explains why their PHP framework, Tempest, will require PHP 8.4 as a minimum version, citing future-proofing, community advancement, and managing adoption.
A blog post about the author's contributions to the awesome-standalones GitHub repo, a curated list of framework-agnostic web components.
A software engineer reflects on formative internships at Corel and OTI/IBM, working on Linux, Wine, .NET, and the Eclipse SWT toolkit.
Explores Polaris, an open-source catalog service for managing Apache Iceberg tables in data lakehouses, covering its architecture, entities, and security.
A developer restores and open-sources the old JetBrains Omea information management app, making it run on modern Windows.
Analyzes the economic challenges for businesses trying to monetize open source software, highlighting the inherent conflict between collaboration and competition.
A .NET product manager explains the compliance-driven shutdown and transfer of several personal .NET microsites to Microsoft.
A talk from EuroPython 2024 exploring the various ways developers can contribute to the Python community and its ecosystem.
Explains how Cryptomator, a free open-source tool, provides end-to-end encryption for files stored in cloud services like Google Drive or Dropbox.
Explores the nuances of open-source licensing, the 'open core' model, and the distinction between 'free as in speech' vs. 'free as in beer'.
