Best of Community — June 2024
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Community Picks·2y
How to Find Open Source Projects to Contribute To
Learn how to find open source projects to contribute to by understanding your skills and interests, exploring projects on OpenSauced or GitHub, joining open source communities, talking to other contributors, using recommendation tools, attending events, looking for project tags and labels, and even writing your own issue.
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Is CSS Tricks back?
CSS Tricks, a website on the decline, may be revived after a year of dormancy. Chris Coyier, the original founder, expressed his desire to regain ownership and the current CEO of Digital Ocean is determined to bring CSS Tricks back. Former editor Geoff Graham may have returned to his old job. The future of CSS Tricks is uncertain.
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Lobsters·2yWhy Not Open Source?
This post discusses the reasons why Yaak will not be open source and explains how the introduction of a plugin system can provide the benefits of open source without the burden. It explores the assumptions about open source and plugins, highlighting the advantages and potential challenges of both approaches.
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Astro·2y
What's new in Astro - June 2024
June 2024 brings exciting updates to the Astro ecosystem, including welcoming new core maintainer @florian-lefebvre and recognizing community contributors like @LorenzoLewis and @SzymonChmal with awards. New integrations and tools, such as Storyblok's live preview for Astro, and a variety of new themes and templates have been added. Additionally, notable tutorials and content from the Astro community are highlighted, encouraging engagement and innovation in the Astro platform.
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Appwrite·2y
Announcing Appwrite's public roadmap
Appwrite has launched its public roadmap on GitHub to enhance transparency, collaboration, and community engagement. The roadmap provides visibility into development priorities, allows for bug reporting and feature requests, and helps align expectations for release timelines. It is organized by projects for each release and encourages community participation in development discussions. The roadmap focuses on four key areas: Friction, Reliability, Growth, and Revenue to ensure Appwrite's continuous improvement and success.
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Godot·2y
Dev snapshot: Godot 4.3 beta 2
Godot 4.3 beta 2 has been released with numerous bug fixes and improvements over beta 1. The update addresses several regressions and introduces new features like sample playback support for Web exports and enhanced barriers in D3D12 rendering. The release emphasizes extensive community testing to identify and solve engine issues before the stable 4.3 release. Financial support for the project is encouraged to sustain its maintenance and future developments.
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DEV·2y
Release Radar · May 2024 Edition: Major updates from the open source community
Release Radar May 2024 highlights major updates from the open source community, including Angular 18.0, Web Check 1.0, Apache Skywalking 10.0, Grafana 11.0, Tasmota 14.0, croc 10.0, ρμ 4.0, Social Switch 1.0, Simple Icons 12.0, and NetBox 4.0.
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GamesIndustry.biz·2y
Ex-Riot devs Believer seeks "a better way to develop video games" with open-source tool Friendshipper
The Believer Company, founded by ex-Riot Games developers, has released its internal development tool Friendshipper as an open-source project. Friendshipper aims to improve the efficiency of game development by quickly making changes to the code, doing builds, and getting changes out to testers. The studio is sharing this technology with other developers because they believe there is a better way to develop video games. Friendshipper is just one potential solution to the problems game developers face. The studio wants to build a community around these tools and ideas to learn and grow from the experiences of others in the industry.
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