Best of Open SourceAugust 2022

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    Avatar of kdnuggetsKDnuggets·4y

    How to Perform Motion Detection Using Python

    Python programming language is an open-source library-rich language that provides a plethora of applications to its user. Motion detection has many real-life implementations or usages where it can prove its worthiness, such as for invigilation of online exams or for security purposes in stores, stores, banks, etc. The language has a number of users.

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    Avatar of itsfossIt's Foss·4y

    Padloc: An Intuitive Open-Source Password Manager

    Padloc is an open-source password manager with a pleasing user interface, available cross-platform. It aims to provide a clean and simple interface to work with. Free to start with, but offers paid subscriptions to unlock most features. As per your requirements, you can choose to upgrade with a paid subscription.

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    Avatar of ghblogGitHub Blog·4y

    Release Radar · July 2022 Edition

    Vite is the next generation in frontend tooling, providing lots of features, optimised builds, and universal plugins. The latest update includes updates to the Vite CLI, support for Node 14.18 and higher, faster reload times, and some experimental features.

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    Four top Front End Monitoring Tools for your Website

    Front-end or front-end application monitoring includes the process and tools for tracking and managing an application's presentation layer. For example, NGINX Amplify, a SaaS-based monitoring tool, monitors performance, tracks infrastructure assets, and enhances configuration using static analysis. OpenReplay tracks critical slowdowns, crashes, CPU/memory usage, rendering times, etc. It can capture JavaScript errors and sync with recordings. You can upload your source maps to see the source code in the stack trace.

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    Avatar of phProduct Hunt·4y

    Coder - Remote development for any use case

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    Avatar of communityCommunity Picks·4y

    How to Implement Redis as Cache in Node.js

    Redis is an open-source (BSD licensed) data structure store used as a database, cache, message broker, and streaming engine. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.

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    Avatar of hashnodeHashnode·4y

    How open source can boost your career as a developer?

    Many junior or entry-level developers struggle to get opportunities because of little or no work experience. Becoming a contributor at that early stage has its advantages, like people getting to know you better, your contributions to the project can be easily felt. A lot of top projects with over 30,000+ stars we use and love today once started small and un-noticed.

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    Avatar of tilThis is Learning·4y

    How to find 🔎 an Open Source project to contribute to

    The first step is looking at this cool resource called opensource.guide. Don’t expect to immediately become an expert, there are a lot of concepts to understand. The most used lables are good first issue, help wanted and up for grabs.

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    Avatar of phProduct Hunt·4y

    Crawlee - Crawlee helps you build reliable crawlers, fast

    Crawlee is an intuitive, customizable open-source library for web scraping and browser automation.

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    Avatar of phProduct Hunt·4y

    Sidekick - Like Chrome DevTools for your backend → now open source!

    Free Sidekick lets you collect stacks and dynamic logs from your applications without redeploying. Sidekick Open Source is here to make live debugging more accessible. Built for everyone who needs extra information from their running applications.

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    Avatar of changelogChangelog·4y

    How we Created an in-Browser Kubernetes Experience

    Plural is an open-source DevOps platform that allows users to deploy and manage software on Kubernetes. The API creates both a reference to the shell pod in our database and creates the pod in a k8s.

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    Avatar of singlestoreSingleStore·4y

    MariaDB vs. MySQL

    MariaDB is an open-source Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) MariaDB is gaining popularity due to its flexibility and availability. MariaDB has made significant progress in the areas of scalability and reliability, and has emerged as a competitor to MySQL.

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    Avatar of phProduct Hunt·4y

    Keyviz - Visualize your keystrokes in real-time!

    Keyviz is a free and open-source software to visualize your keystrokes in real time.

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    Avatar of itsfossIt's Foss·4y

    What is the Difference Between macOS and Linux?

    Linux is not an operating system but needs different components like desktop environments. There are plenty of differences between the two UNIX-like operating systems. Both give access to Unix commands, bash/zsh, and other shells. If you want to personalize, take control of the operating system’s nuts and bolts, Linux should be the perfect pick. The out-of-the-box experience with Linux is inconsistent.

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    Avatar of sdtimesSD Times·4y

    Heroku to stop offering free plans

    Heroku plans to shut down free dynos and data services on November 28th. Accounts that have been inactive for over a year and their associated storage will be deleted starting on October 26th. Heroku also announced the launch of its interactive product roadmap for Heroku on GitHub.

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    Avatar of hashnodeHashnode·4y

    5 Approaches To Improve As A Software Engineer

    If you have meaningful ideas that you can work on, build them as a side project. If you don’t have any idea but want to improve your skills, build any fun project. Sharing knowledge improves soft skills, such as technical writing, communication, and confidence. Building an audience, or at least sharing content online, can bring you new opportunities.

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    Avatar of hashnodeHashnode·4y

    Explain in 5 Levels of Difficulty: Linux

    The Linux kernel was first released to the public in 1991 by Finnish computer science student Linus Torvalds. The kernel is the core of a Linux operating system and provides basic services such as memory management, process management, device drivers, and system call handling.

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    Avatar of hnHacker News·4y

    Time Till Open Source Alternative

    The average TTOSA for the cases I measured is 7 years, and that seems like plenty of time for a business to be profitable with proprietary software. For instance, take BitKeeper (proprietary) versus Git (open source) Anyone who is a developer today knows what Git is, whileBitKeeper is just a small anecdote in Git's history.

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    Avatar of geekflareGeekflare·4y

    26 Awesome Open Datasets for Your Data Science/ML Projects

    Since data is the equivalent of crude oil in the digital universe, datasets are becoming commercial and scarce. Open Source Datasets for Data Science Projects can be the fuel to power your passion for the right datasets.

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    Avatar of reactnativeexampleReact Native Example·4y

    An open-source project that aims to provide an indistinguishably accurate experience of Android on web

    An open-source project that aims to provide an indistinguishably accurate experience of Android on web. The project leverages different JavaScript Web APIs to imitates the Android functionalities and CSS animations to bring life into it.

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    Avatar of 80lv80 LEVEL·4y

    A Fan Is Making Counter-Strike on the Source 2 Engine

    Source 2 is a community-driven, open-source project that uses S&box – a game development toolkit and spiritual successor of Garry’s Mod – as a base. The games made on Source 2 include Dota 2 and Half-Life: Alyx.

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    Avatar of hnHacker News·4y

    DreamWorks Animation to Release MoonRay as Open Source

    MoonRay is DreamWorks' state-of-the-art MCRT renderer, which has been used on feature films such as How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.

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    Avatar of ghblogGitHub Blog·4y

    Keeping your skillset fresh as a developer

    The ReadME Project's senior editor Klint Finley gathered a panel of three tech professionals at different stages of their careers. Karthik Iyer is a software engineer at JPMorgan Chase and Monica Powell is a GitHub Star.

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    Avatar of theregisterThe Register·4y

    FauxPilot: Like GitHub Copilot without Microsoft telemetry

    GitHub Copilot is a tool for generating programming code suggestions with the help of AI models. It relies on OpenAI Codex, a natural language-to-code system based on GPT-3 that was trained on "billions of lines of public code" in GitHub repositories. Microsoft is a Linux and open source company these days.

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    Avatar of devopsDevOps.com·4y

    Stable Diffusion Goes Public — and the Internet Freaks Out

    Stable Diffusion is the new open source machine learning model for creating images from text and even other images. It's similar to DALL-E and Midjourney, you give it a textual ‘prompt’ and it generates amazing images. The team behind the model have been very transparent about how their model is trained.