What motivates the authors of the software you use?
Explores the motivations behind proprietary vs. open source software, arguing that understanding developer intent is key to choosing software that serves user interests.
Explores the motivations behind proprietary vs. open source software, arguing that understanding developer intent is key to choosing software that serves user interests.
An introduction to Needle, an open-source modular framework for conducting security assessments of iOS applications.
A guide encouraging developers to contribute to open-source projects like AngularJS by improving documentation, not just code.
A developer advocates for investing time in building internal tools and processes to automate repetitive tasks and improve efficiency in software development.
A developer shares their experience contributing to Docker's official documentation by fixing a Windows-specific path issue in the config.json file guide.
A developer's review of the Atom text editor, highlighting its open-source nature, extensive plugin ecosystem, and customization for modern development.
A guide for open source maintainers on how to gracefully close or reject unwanted pull requests and patch submissions.
A personal reflection on the history and legacy of Mozilla and the Firefox browser, from its innovative beginnings to its perceived decline.
An invitation for students to join Google's Summer of Code, submit project proposals, and get paid to work with open source communities like KDE and openSUSE.
A developer asks for community help on several open-source projects due to increased time constraints from other work.
A guide and free video series on how to contribute to open source projects, from creating a pull request to Git rebase.
Feross announces his candidacy for the Node.js Board of Directors, highlighting his contributions to the ecosystem and his vision for the community.
Analyzes community contributions to open-source ASP.NET projects (MVC, DNX, Entity Framework, Kestrel) one year after Microsoft's .NET open-sourcing.
A developer's professional review of 2015, detailing progress on open-source projects like ControlsFX, LibFX, and FindBugs based on yearly resolutions.
A developer expresses gratitude after being elected a Java Champion, thanking mentors, community members, and supporters.
A female developer shares her positive experiences in the tech industry, countering the narrative of pervasive sexism.
Explores the importance of reproducible science in computer science, focusing on reproducibility, replicability, and reusability of software and data.
Announcement of Open Live Writer, an open-source fork of Windows Live Writer for blog publishing.
Analyzes community involvement in open-source .NET projects (Roslyn, CoreCLR, CoreFX) one year after Microsoft's announcement, using GitHub data.
XAML Behaviors are now open source on GitHub and available for UWP apps, with updates to the Cimbalino Toolkit to support them.