zaterdag 4 mei, 2024
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife Microsoft’s TypeScript 4.9 is now available, reports Paul Krill. This update to the popular language that builds on JavaScript, features the new satisfies operator, which can help developers catch errors by validating that the type of an expression matches some type. Read more at InfoWorld. Dit bericht...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife Two teams of five is not the same as one team of ten, says Tom Limoncelli. Sometimes, the “hard limits that come from organizational boundaries” can lessen cognitive load, reduce context switching, and keep team members from feeling overwhelmed.  According to Limoncelli, benefits of splitting...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife The Linux Foundation Europe (LF Europe) has launched Project Sylva, “which aims to create an open source telco cloud framework for European telcos and vendors,” reports Frederic Lardinois. “At the core of Sylva is a framework for a compute platform that can be agnostic to...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife GitHub has released its annual report on the state of open source software, as seen through the lens of contributions and contributors on the popular Microsoft-owned software development website.  “When we released our first Octoverse report 10 years ago to celebrate 2.8 million people on...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife If you’re looking for a job in tech, “there’s a potentially lucrative opportunity waiting for you in climate tech,” says Michelle Ma, with many climate-related jobs “specifically geared toward those with traditional tech skills.” Ma says workforce development groups such as Climate Draft, Terra.do, and Work...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI now face a class-action lawsuit claiming that Copilot, an AI-assisted coding tool, violates open source copyright laws, reports Stephen J. Vaughan-Nichols. As Vaughan-Nichols explains: “Copilot is an AI-based system trained on publicly accessible open source licensed code. While GitHub claims that...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife The 60th edition of the TOP500 list, announced at this week’s SC22 supercomputing conference in Dallas, reports that the Frontier system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is the top-performing supercomputer in the world.  With an HPL benchmark score of 1.102 EFlop/s, Frontier did not...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife The CHAOSS community has defined more than 70 metrics for measuring the health of open source projects and organizations, says Georg Link, and it provides software tools to help you gain further insight.  This article covers the five main focus areas or categories to consider, such...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife Since Elon Musk formalized his Twitter takeover, Mastodon has gained nearly 500,000 new users, effectively doubling its user base, reports Amanda Silberling.  So, what is Mastodon and how do you get an account set up? In this article, Silberling explains the basics of this open...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife How to Create a Local Git Repository on Linux FOSSlife Team Thu, Nov 10, 2022 - 07:00 Tags ...