PHP 8.4 at least
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.
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.
Explores Polaris, an open-source catalog service for managing Apache Iceberg tables in data lakehouses, covering its architecture, entities, and security.
A software engineer reflects on formative internships at Corel and OTI/IBM, working on Linux, Wine, .NET, and the Eclipse SWT toolkit.
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.
Explains how Cryptomator, a free open-source tool, provides end-to-end encryption for files stored in cloud services like Google Drive or Dropbox.
A guide on using GitHub Codespaces to simplify contributor onboarding for .NET open-source projects by setting up pre-configured cloud dev environments.
Introduces MixEval, a cost-effective LLM benchmark with high correlation to Chatbot Arena, for evaluating open-source language models.
Explores the benefits of IRC for open communities, comparing channels to meeting rooms in a virtual co-working space.
An introduction to Valibot, a new modular data validation library for JavaScript, exploring its origins and core concepts.
The article discusses the spin-off of scikit-learn's open-source development from Inria to a new mission-driven enterprise, Probabl, focusing on sustainable funding and growth.
A technical guide exploring the AV1 video codec, its benefits over H.265, and practical encoding setup using tools like SVT-AV1.
Discusses the challenge of funding open-source projects, highlighting the imbalance between high-profile and underlying dependencies, and proposes solutions.
A retrospective on organizing and running ThanosCon, a co-located event at KubeConEU 2024, focused on the Thanos open-source project for metrics.
Mitchell Hashimoto joins Polar as an advisor to support its mission of helping developers get paid for working on their passion projects.
The author announces a change in the blog's content license from CC BY-SA 4.0 to the more permissive CC BY 4.0, citing a shift in perspective on licensing reciprocity.
Argues that the term 'Open Source' is misleading for LLMs and proposes the new term 'PALE LLMs' (Publicly Available, Locally Executable).
An overview of five impactful open-source data projects, including Apache Iceberg and Arrow, that are revolutionizing data management and analytics.
An analysis of 900 popular open-source AI tools, categorizing them into infrastructure, model development, and application layers.