Tag: Open Source

Build vs. buy doesn’t matter. Tool adoption does.

Ben and Ryan talk to Rob Skillington, CTO and co-founder of Chronosphere. They talk about how buy vs. buy is a false choice, lessons learned from building developer tooling at Uber, and why building developer tools needs more than technical skills. ...
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Trust as a service for validating OSS dependencies

This is part two of our conversation with Kubernetes project cofounder Craig McLuckie, whose new company helps developers build safer software by validating where code came from and that it’s been properly maintained. ...
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How to Write Commit Messages that Project Maintainers Will Appreciate

You know the saying “If you keep looking at the past, you’ll miss the future”? Well in the context of coding and working with Git, that’s not the case. Your commit history plays a huge role in the future of the open source projects that you contribute to, and ...
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How the cocreator of Kubernetes is helping developers build safer software

Ben and Ryan chat with Craig McLuckie, cofounder of the Kubernetes project and cofounder/CEO of Stacklok, which helps developers and open-source communities build safer, more secure software. ...
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The product approach to open source communities

A business wouldn’t take its product development for granted, so why would you neglect the OSS community that’s fundamental to the project’s very existence? ...
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Hacktoberfest 2023 Contributors

The freeCodeCamp community just finished participating in this year’s Hacktoberfest – a month-long celebration of open source. Our core team is excited to recognize all of our wonderful open source contributors. A big thank you to all of these folks for the effort they put into helping improve our curriculum ...
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A Guide to a Successful Open Source Journey – Lessons from Real-Life Experience

The journey to becoming a successful open-source contributor can be intimidating, frustrating, or confusing depending on your level of confidence, commitment, and expertise. I have had my fair share of all sides of the emotions that come with contributing to open source in the one and a half years (at ...
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2022 Roundup of Web Research

We’ve started making a tradition of rounding up the latest front-end research at the end of each year. We did it in 2020 and again in 2021. Reports are released throughout the year by a bunch of different companies … 2022 Roundup of Web Research originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter. ...
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What is Spring Framework in Java

An open-source app framework called the Spring Framework, or simply Spring, offers infrastructure aid for creating applications in the Java language. Spring is one of the most well-liked and versatile Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) frameworks. It assists programmers in building fast Java objects-based applications (POJOs). ...
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Why Don’t Developers Take Accessibility Seriously?

You know that joke, “Two front-end developers walk into a bar and find they have nothing in common”? It’s funny, yet frustrating, because it’s true. This article will present three different perspectives on accessibility in web design and development. Three … Why Don’t Developers Take Accessibility Seriously? originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter. ...
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