Best of Open SourceMay 2023

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    Avatar of newstackThe New Stack·3y

    The New JavaScript Features Coming in ECMAScript 2023

    ECMAScript will be approved in July 2023, but four proposals for new language features have already reached stage four. WeakMap lets you extend an object with extra properties without worrying about creating a memory leak. Change Array by Copy gives developers new methods for sorting, reversing and overwriting data without mutating the array it’s stored.

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    Avatar of hnHacker News·3y

    it's a(door)able

    It's a(door)able LOADING rewinding... playing back... made by @ncasenmare | open source code P.S. You can add your own personal message!

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    Interview with Yuval Hazaz, Amplication

    Amplication is an open source platform that allows developers to automatically generate all the repetitive and boilerplate part of their backend code. The developer gets all their code from Amplication with a Git pull request. This allows them to build scaffolding for an entire fully functional backend with all the data models, crowd operation, and even a client application.

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    The Dark Side of Open Source

    The post discusses the challenges of contributing and authoring open source, the transition from contributor to author, the branding and productization of open source projects, the financial aspect of open source, the need for a maintenance strategy, and the importance of balancing open source work with personal life.

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    The State of Data Engineering 2023

    A lot has happened since 2022, from the rise of Generative AI to the economic slowdown and job losses impacting data practitioners in 2023. The way the trend and investment focus on GenAI will influence the data engineering space is likely to become a major topic in our 2024 State of Data Engineering review.

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    Avatar of phProduct Hunt·3y

    Damn Good Tools - Easy-to-use, fun productivity tools—free (and open-source)

    Damn Good Tools is a set of productivity tools, not necessarily AI-based. You can detect fonts for any, quickly render screenshots of your site in many dimensions, chat with any PDF file, and more. This is Damn Good Tools's first launch.

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    Avatar of communityCommunity Picks·3y

    mudler/LocalAI: :robot: The free, Open Source OpenAI alternative. Self-hosted, community-driven and local-first. Drop-in replacement for OpenAI running on consumer-grade hardware. No GPU required. Run

    LocalAI is a free and open-source alternative to OpenAI that allows running LLMs, generating images and audio locally or on-prem with consumer-grade hardware. It supports multiple model families and does not require a GPU. It offers various features including text generation, text to audio, audio to text, image generation, OpenAI functions, embeddings generation, and more. The project is community-driven and welcomes contributions.

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    Avatar of itsfossIt's Foss·3y

    10 Best Fonts for Linux Terminal

    The perfect font is crucial for many things, whether you are a programmer, system administrator, or a Linux user fond of the terminal. We have picked some of the best fonts fit for coding, offering good readability and look-for terminals. Here are the best Linux terminal emulators you can get.

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    Introducing DevPod - Codespaces but Open Source

    DevPod is an open-source tool for creating reproducible developer environments. It allows developers to control where their development environment runs and provides flexibility in choosing the cloud provider. DevPod is cost-effective, avoids vendor lock-in, supports local development, and offers cross IDE support. It is also open-source and has a rich feature set.

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    BlockNote

    BlockNote is free and open source, made possible by our sponsors and community. BlockNote builds on top of Prosemirror and TipTap (two awesome open source projects) BlockNote exposes an extensive API so you can integrate BlockNote into your app and add functionality to the editor.

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    Avatar of amplicationAmplication·3y

    What is Open-source Software: Everything you wanted to know

    Open-source software has revolutionized the way we develop, share, and customize applications. It is code distributed under a license that allows the users to access the software's source code and modify and build new features upon the existing software to meet the user requirements. This article will discuss the open-sourceSoftware model, history, and advantages.

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    How to Contribute to Open Source without Knowing How to Code: A guide with project suggestions

    Learn about the different ways to contribute to open source projects without coding, including documentation, user experience design, translation, content creation, and community support.

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    Avatar of phProduct Hunt·3y

    Teletrace - Open-Source Tracing Platform

    Teletrace is an open-source distributed tracing system that helps developers monitor and troubleshoot complex distributed systems by providing end-to-end transaction monitoring and tracing across various microservices. The most active community members Hall of Fame Golden Kitty Awards finalists through the years Launch Guide Checklists and pro tips for launching Collections Products.

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    Avatar of amplicationAmplication·3y

    The Amplication Plugin System

    Amplication's plugin system allows us to add new features or manipulate our generated application's behaviors. Amplication will continue generating code as normal when no lifecycles event is provided and no parameters are changed. It's essential to consider the execution order of the events in the DSG service.

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    Avatar of kdnuggetsKDnuggets·3y

    StarCoder: The Coding Assistant That You Always Wanted

    The StarCoder is a cutting-edge large language model designed specifically for code. With an impressive 15.5B parameters and an extended context length of 8K, it excels in infilling capabilities. You can also chat with a StarChat and use VSCode extensions for work.

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    Avatar of hnHacker News·3y

    Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"

    Leaked Internal Google Document claims Open Source AI will outcompete Google and OpenAI. The document is only the opinion of a Google employee, not the entire firm. We do not agree with what is written below, nor do other researchers we asked.

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    Avatar of phProduct Hunt·3y

    MakerPunks - Discover Social Impact Tech Projects ✨🌍✨

    The best of Product Hunt, everyday Popular products in... AI No Code Social Media Ecommerce Analytics. Ask questions, find support and connect Stories Tech news, interviews and tips from Makers Changelog Release notes from the Product Hunt team Office hours Give feedback directly to our product team Visit streaks.

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    How Terraform Acquired Its First Thousand Users

    Terraform acquired its first thousand users within a few months of its launch. HashiCorp published comprehensive guides, blogs, and tutorials on how to use Terraform. The founders took active roles in speaking at relevant developer and DevOps conferences and hosted webinars to provide live demonstrations of Terraform's capabilities.

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    Avatar of kdnuggetsKDnuggets·3y

    8 Free AI and LLMs Playgrounds

    8 Free AI and LLMs Playgrounds lets you test and compare open-source AI models for free. You don’t even have to enter your OpenAI API key to test GPT-3.5 turbo model. The platform offers models inference from Hugging Face, OpenAI, cohere, Replicate, and Anthropic.

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    Avatar of newstackThe New Stack·3y

    4 Ways to Enhance Your Dockerfiles

    Ten years ago, Docker released its first version of what democratized container technology. Docker is still the most used software package technology, with Maven and NPM listed as second and third.

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    Avatar of pointerPointer·3y

    appsmithorg/appsmith: Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.

    Appsmith is an open-source tool for rapidly developing internal applications such as dashboards, admin panels, and more. It integrates with 25+ databases and any API.

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    Avatar of kdnuggetsKDnuggets·3y

    LLM Apocalypse Now: Revenge of the Open Source Clones

    LLM Apocalypse Now: Revenge of the Open Source Clones - KDnuggets LLm Apocalypse Now. This is a story about how open-source projects are taking on the LLM industry. It's the turn of open source communities to do what they do best: delivering free competing software using far less money and equipment.

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    Avatar of phProduct Hunt·3y

    Dify.AI - Open-source platform for LLMOps,Define your AI-native Apps

    Dify.AI is an open-source platform for LLMOps,Define your AI-native Apps. Create an AI app in minutes or integrate LLM into your app for continuous improvement. Ask questions, find support and connect Stories Tech news, interviews and tips from Makers Changelog Release notes.