Best of Open Source — January 2022
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Hacker News·4y
Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker' breaking thousands of apps
Users of popular open-source libraries 'colors' and 'faker' were left stunned after they saw their applications, using these libraries, printing gibberish data and breaking. The developer of these libraries intentionally introduced an infinite loop that bricked thousands of projects that depend on them. The reason behind this mischief on the developer's part appears to be retaliation against mega-corporations and commercial consumers who rely on cost-free and community-powered software.
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It's Foss·4y
Logseq: A Free & Open-Source App to Create Notes, Manage Tasks, Build Knowledge Graph, and More
Logseq is a versatile knowledge platform with the support for Markdown and Org-mode. It aims to help you organize, create to-do lists, and build a knowledge graph. It is still in the beta testing phase, but it has been getting recommendations since being in the alpha stages.
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Product Hunt·4y
Pro Writer - Minimal yet pro writer for all of your needs
Pro Writer is an open source project. It allows you to write text on any device. Pro Writer is a free and open source software. It is available on iOS and Android devices. It can be used to write in any language or theme of your choice. For more information, visit the Pro Writer website.
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9 Open Source Add-Ons to Improve Your Mozilla Firefox Experience
Mozilla Firefox is easily one of the most popular open-source web browsers among Linux users. What are some of the best open- source Mozilla Firefox add-ons that you can install? Take a look at our list of the top five open-Source Mozilla Firefox extensions.
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Developer Tech·4y
Open-source developer corrupted his own popular libraries
Marak Squires intentionally corrupted his own libraries that have been used by thousands of projects. The ‘colors’ and ‘faker’ libraries by Squires were confronted with their applications indefinitely printing gibberish messages. Squires had access to GitHub suspended for violating its terms of service – despite hosting hundreds of his private and public projects.
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Hashnode·4y
The Ultimate Guide to GitHub
Git is a version control system technology used for managing source codes of various software. GitHub is one of the most popular platforms among developers all over the world. It has a wide variety of users ranging from beginner programmers to Multinational Companies like Google and Amazon. In this article, we are going to take a deeper look at GitHub and its attributes.
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Notifo - Open-source notification server for all channels
Notifo is an Open Source notification server for all channels. It handles the reliable delivery of notifications through emails, mobile push, web push, sms, messaging and APIs. A web plugin can be embedded to your website. Notifo can also be used to send push notifications to your mobile device.
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Container Solutions·4y
Introducing CS Labs
Container Solutions has recently formed an internal project called CS Labs. There are currently 9 projects being incubated under its auspices, covering many different areas of Cloud Native tech. We want to make it as easy as possible for people, both inside and outside Container Solutions, to contribute to our projects. We ran a series of workshops to develop understanding and then created a set of guiding principles.
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Syncfusion·4y
10 Best C# NuGet Packages to Improve Your Productivity in 2022
C# is one of the most popular languages used by the developers, which implies it is very productive. To further improve the productivity of using C#, there are a lot of NuGet packages available. In this blog, we discuss the 10 best Nu get packages for improving developers' productivity.
