OSS

Posts tagged OSS

Open source software development, usually about APIs and web platform technologies.

Discover: Stable Diffusion, GitHub trending, WebKit on GitHub

GitHub made a surprise announcement this week that the trending repositories page was going away. This page highlights projects on GitHub that are receiving the most amount of stars and contributions within a certain time period and was a popular way to discover interesting repositories. The trending repositories page briefly held a banner announcing the change would come into effect at the end of the month.

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From Google Analytics to Netlify Analytics

I decided to make the change recently to try out Netlify Analytics in place of Google Analytics. I was initially motivated to improve my website’s performance and eliminate trackers, but I’m also curious about how it is from the maintainer side. In this post, I’ll describe my motivations, what I did to get started, my initial impressions, and things I learned along the way.

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Discover: Copilot, Pokedex, InterviewThis

I’m happy to share some projects and highlights from the dev community that I found interesting. We’ll take a look at an awesome example Android app, how to use the :has() CSS selector, technical interview questions to ask a prospective employer, and a great read about battling GitHub’s copilot.

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Jekyll, Amplify, GitHub actions deploys

One tech stack I like is using Jekyll to build static pages with vanilla HTML & CSS, AWS Amplify for deployments, and GitHub actions to pick up broken HTML. This entire setup is designed to be as low-maintenance as possible while remaining customizable and configurable. There’s a few benefits of using Amplify instead of GitHub pages:

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