Best of Open SourceAugust 2023

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    Radix Themes - A beautiful component library for building React apps faster

    Radix Themes is an open source component library for building React apps faster. It helps you build faster and makes it easy to create beautiful, accessible interfaces that are a breeze to maintain. Radix UI is rated 5/5 ★ by 21 users.

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    Pulumi 💜's Open Source

    Pulumi is true open source, uses the Apache 2.0 license, and never will depend on BSL-licensed software in any way, HashiCorp owned or otherwise. Pulumi stands with the open source community, always with open source and our amazing, fast-growing community at our core.

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    Good-Bye Kris Nóva

    Kris Nóva had co-founded The Nivenly Foundation, a member-controlled and democratically-governed open source foundation. She was an open source developer who contributed significantly to Linux, Kubernetes, distributed runtime environments, Falco, and the Go programming language. In a word, she was “impressive.

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    Dev world mourns loss of Vim creator Bram Moolenaar

    Dutch software engineer Bram Moolenaar died on August 3, 2023 after suffering from a medical condition that ‘rapidly progressed over the last few weeks’ Vim is a free and open-source, screen-based text editor that has been at the forefront of many software developments since its release in 1991.

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    Highlights from Git 2.42

    Open source Git project just released Git 2.42 with features and bug fixes from over 67 contributors, 16 of them new. We covered Git’s new multi-pack reachability bitmaps back in our coverage of the 2.34 release towards the end of 2021.

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    Avatar of hnHacker News·3y

    OpenTF Foundation

    HashiCorp announced they are changing the license to all their core products, including Terraform, to the Business Source License (BSL) Over 100 companies, 10 projects, and 400 individuals pledged their time and resources to keep Terraform open-source. The GitHub repository for the manifesto already has over 2.5k stars.

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    Type Inferences and Annotations in TypeScript

    In TypeScript, variables must be assigned to types to avoid unwanted results. This is different from the syntax of JavaScript, which allows you loosely declare variables without having to specify the data type. In this article, you will learn about type annotations and type inference, how to use them and the best practice to use.

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    Avatar of freecodecampfreeCodeCamp·3y

    How to Find Good First Issues On GitHub

    A good first issue is a label that GitHub-hosted open source projects use. It describes issues that are reserved for people who are new to open source in general or those new to a particular project. This guide will show you how to harness the power of the good first issues label so you can end up in digital Neverland.

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    Five New Official Redis Clients

    Redis now officially supports five open-source client libraries: More are on the way. Choosing one of our official Redis clients means prioritizing your development experience. We will provide a standard interface across all Redis flavors, whether you use Redis Open Source (Redis OSS) or Redis Enterprise Cloud.

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    Matrix.org

    Matrix is a rich ecosystem of clients, servers, bots and application services. We're open source.org is generously hosted by UpCloud!

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    Avatar of spaceliftSpacelift·3y

    The Future of Terraform, Announcing OpenTF!

    HashiCorp announced that going forward they will be changing the license on their core products, including Terraform, to a Business Source License (BSL v1.1 to be specific). Unlike the Mozilla Public License (MPL v2) that their products were previously licensed under, BSL is not an open source license.

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    How I Built My Own PaaS Company

    Jibri's On Demand is a leader in the open-source video conferencing community. It has reached 63 countries, assisting over 500 businesses in effortlessly recording Jitsi video. It became a lifeline during the 2020 pandemic, enabling everything from telemedicine to Santa's virtual visits.

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    Bram Moolenaar, Author of the Open Source Vim Code Editor, Has Died

    Bram Moolenaar, Author of the Open Source Vim Code Editor, has died after a brief illness. Vim was based on Unix’s Vi, a screen-oriented text editor created by Bill Joy that proved to be immensely popular.

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    Hugging Face is now supported in Supabase

    Hugging Face with Python supabase/vecs is our Python client for vector projects. Today, we're releasing a new feature for vecs called "adapters" Adapters transform your input into a new format when upserting and querying. You can split large text into smaller chunks, or transform it into embeddings.

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    > htmx ~ htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator!

    htmx has been accepted into the first class of the GitHub Open Source Accelerator. This is a tremendous opportunity to work with and learn from some of the most successful open source developers and projects. We aim to earn your trust by enabling you to self-host the platform and examine its workings.

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    How Open Source helped me get into the GitHub Octernships program.

    The GitHub Octernships program connects students with industry partners in paid professional experiences and mentorship on open source and software development projects. The program is amazing in itself, but I couldn't have asked for a better organization to collaborate with than OpenSauced. I wish to share some of my learnings and the project that I worked on.

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    BioDrop: A Fresh Start for the Open Source Project Formerly Known as LinkFree

    BioDrop: A Fresh Start for the Open Source Project Formerly Known as LinkFree. The name change comes as a strategic move to differentiate it from similarly named services, most notably Linktree. BioDrop serves as a platform that enables users to connect with their audience via a single link.

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    Avatar of heliosHelios·3y

    What are Microservices?

    Microservices are a software architecture pattern that structures an application as a collection of small, independent, and loosely coupled services. Each service operates as its own entity that focuses on specific business functions. Microservices allow for modular development, deployment, and scalability, providing flexibility and adaptability to changing requirements.

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    bloomberg/blazingmq: A modern high-performance open source message queuing system

    BlazingMQ is an open source distributed message queueing framework. It focuses on efficiency, reliability, and a rich feature set for modern-day workflows. BlazingMQ's back-end (message brokers) has been implemented in C++, Java, and Python.