The history of PuTTY's development from a personal project to a widely-used SSH/Telnet client, as recounted by its creator Simon Tatham.
Introducing mdox, a CLI tool to automate and streamline software documentation processes, treating docs as code.
A guide to installing PowerShell 7, covering manual, scripted, and portable installation methods for the new cross-platform release.
A developer introduces 'Sponsorware', a model where an open-source package is initially exclusive to GitHub sponsors before being fully open-sourced, leading to a significant income increase.
A guide on contributing to open-source projects using Git and GitHub, covering the process from finding a project to making a pull request.
A passionate critique of the modern laptop market, praising the durable and serviceable ThinkPad X200 while lamenting current flawed offerings.
A curated list of open-source and free tools for data annotation across computer vision, NLP, audio, and other domains, including image and video labeling.
A guide to becoming a successful open-source project maintainer, focusing on soft skills, community management, and sustainable practices.
A step-by-step guide to building, testing, documenting, and publishing an open-source Python package from scratch, using a simple library as an example.
A critique of modern software's over-reliance on dependencies, sparked by a FOSDEM talk on open source sustainability and maintainer burnout.
A developer shares their experience presenting a talk on Python profiling at the FOSDEM 2020 open-source conference.
A FOSS maintainer reflects on the unique joys and intense stresses of working full-time on free and open-source software projects.
A developer built an interactive tool using the DEV API to analyze article readability and sentiment over time, visualizing the data with charts.
A maintainer's perspective on effective open-source project governance, advocating for the BDFL model over rigid codes of conduct.
A GitHub community leader shares 10 key lessons on building and moderating healthy online communities, based on three years of platform trust and safety work.
A developer reflects on four years at The Linux Foundation, building open source foundations and promoting cloud-native technologies.
A GNOME contributor uses GitLab API to automate recognizing and celebrating newcomers' first contributions.
A developer's 2019 year in review, focusing on open-source contributions to projects like Gatsby, TypeScript, and DEV.
A GitHub product lead shares resolutions for supporting open source communities, focusing on shared responsibility and maintainer etiquette.
Announcing a major performance update for MyNatsClient, a .NET client for NATS, achieving a 60% speed increase and reduced resource usage.
