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Continuous AI: A Simple Introduction Olabode...
The Building Blocks of an AI Coding Assistant
In my latest newsletter, I ranted about how most developers approach AI coding assistants wrong....
Measuring Successful Communities in Open Source
Open Source Insights There is no community tool that will replace building meaningful...
Growth Hacking Killed GitHub Stars
In 2023, I had a chat with Max Stoiber, CEO of Stellate, on a podcast to learn about his early...
AI Grant Traction in OSS Startups
Last year Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross kicked off the AI Grant and have incubated 60 companies with...
Resume Driven Contributions
10 years ago my open source journey started with an email to a maintainer because I really wanted to...
Moneyball for engineers
A social post that went viral recently stated that if you are junior and not contributing to your...
Practical advice for finding GitHub issues to work on
There is countless advice on finding projects and, eventually, GitHub Issues to work on, but it's...
Highlight Your Open Source Contributions
Having a portfolio of work to lean on is critical in this job market. The challenge folks face is...
A Rounded Solution to Image Handling on the OpenSauced Dashboard
This post is about the journey we took to improve the OpenSauced Dashboard, which provides valuable...
Build your own ChatGPT starter kit
ChatGPT is an excellent general-purpose example of how we can use AI to answer casual questions, but...
AI powered census data
Mr Ligma took some time away from unemployment to share his latest public works project, CensusGPT....
AI powered movie recommendations
Last night my wife and I spent 40 minutes choosing what movie to watch. We finally settled on...
AI generated twitter bio
This TikTok/Tweet about Circuit City is blowing up right now. The premise is that Circuit City went...
AI powered age transformation
The AI-powered photo-aging project's premise is either fun or highly morbid. Developer, @steventey,...
AI powered code debugging extensions
GitHub Copilot is nice for autocompletion, but 80% of the coding is debugging. @musabshakil shares a...
AI generated room designs
As AI becomes more accessible to every developer, we will continue to see the use cases for it...
AI powered knowledge search
Some of the best implementations of AI use existing knowledge basis and make them searchable through...
AI generated git commit messages
Over my decorated 10-year career in development, I have seen some of the worst commit messages. I...
9 Days of OpenAI
For 30 days, I plan to test open-source Ai projects on GitHub and learn how to build a project...
Setup SSH to with one command
When working with a GitHub repository, you'll often need to identify yourself to GitHub. Up until...
The First Two Dev Tools Installed On My M1 Mac
I was overdue for an upgrade at my day job and recently received a 16 inch M1 Macbook Pro. If you...
Sharing excess food with OSS and React
Last week's Open Source Friday featured Ryan McHenry from Sharing Excess project. Sharing Excess, a...
Working at a Startup: From Seed to Series A
The startup I used to work at recently announced their series D funding round completed. That...
Working with WordPress and GitHub Actions
In the most recent Open Source Friday, we were joined with Helen Hou-Sandi, Director of Open Source I...
A ProseMirror toolkit for building a CMS in React
remirror was started as a personal challenge. Would it be possible to build an editor that combined e...
The web interface for your 3D printer - OctoPrint
OctoPrint provides a snappy web interface for controlling consumer 3D printers. It is Free Software a...
AI-powered visual regression testing with Applitools and GitHub Actions
Applitools provides several SDKs that allow you to integrate them into your existing workflow easily....
Next level repository management with Octoherd
I recently sat down with Gregor, maintainer of the JavaScript flavor of Octokit, to talk about managi...
How to make series on DEV
I have been trying to figure how to make a series of posts on DEV (for a few months). The followin...