An overview of five impactful open-source data projects, including Apache Iceberg and Arrow, that are revolutionizing data management and analytics.
A software engineer reflects on how life changes like marriage, parenthood, and a demanding job have shifted his priorities and time for open source contributions.
Podcast interview with Paolo Melchiorre discussing Django, open source contributions, PyCon conferences, and trends in Python web development.
An analysis of 900 popular open-source AI tools, categorizing them into infrastructure, model development, and application layers.
Author celebrates their fourth consecutive year as a GitHub Star, highlighting contributions to open-source web game development and community work.
An open source maintainer explains why automated security reports about nested dependencies are often unhelpful and asks developers to stop sending them.
A summary of key AI research papers from February 2024, focusing on new open-source LLMs, small fine-tuned models, and efficient fine-tuning techniques.
A summary of February 2024 AI research, covering new open-source LLMs like OLMo and Gemma, and a study on small, fine-tuned models for text summarization.
A full-time open source maintainer outlines his 2024 goals, focusing on TypeScript static analysis, the typescript-eslint project, and ecosystem stewardship.
Explores the concept of 'intellectual debt' in AI and software systems, comparing it to The Sorcerer's Apprentice and arguing for open society principles as a solution.
A developer's experience trying out GoatCounter, a privacy-focused, open-source alternative to Google Analytics for basic website traffic tracking.
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The Big Book of R, a curated collection of free R programming books, celebrates a milestone of over 400 entries and requests community support for hosting costs.
The EmojiKit SDK for Swift is being open-sourced, moving from a commercial product to a free, public GitHub repository.
A review of 2023 from a full-time open source maintainer, covering conference speaking, financials, and project work.
The author shares their experience helping to revive the Phaser World newsletter after a two-year hiatus, following the framework's recent funding.
Explores the Data Lakehouse architecture and the roles of Apache Iceberg and Dremio in modern, integrated data management.
Developer leaves job to work full-time on Manyfold, an open-source, self-hosted web app for managing 3D printing files, funded by an NGI Zero grant.
A guide to customizing default issue labels for GitHub projects, including setup steps and limitations for organization accounts.
A software engineer's 2023 review, covering work on Netlify's frameworks team, layoffs, burnout, and a new role at OpenSauced.
A closing talk from GopherConAU reflecting on 14 years of the Go programming language, discussing its successes and lessons learned.
