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ISSUE #12 - April 12th

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Harvard census identifies most commonly used open source packages

Researchers hope that by raising awareness of the most widely used open source packages, they can help prevent the next Log4j or Heartbleed exploit from happening.

Elon Musk Is on Twitter's Board. What Could Go Wrong?

Musk's appointment could herald a controversial push for "free speech" and invite more scrutiny from the SEC.

Spreadsheets Are Hot—and Cranking Out Complex Code

The venerable (and yes, super dull) piece of officeware is getting reinvented as a tool for non-coders to automate and simplify their lives.

Intel’s long-anticipated Arc GPUs arrive in laptops

Arc’s grand reveal comes via laptops, which can drive home some of the enticingly delicious advantages Intel can provide in tuned systems revolving around its Core CPUs and Arc GPUs.

#Aviyel Podcast

AMA With Rachel Lawson! The Power of Diversity in OSS Communities

#AMA session with Rachel where she talks about her amazing journey building one of the most diverse Open Source Projects!

AMA session with Deepak, Maintainer of BoxyHQ!

Watch this #AMA session with Deepak, CEO of BoxyHQ talks about what BoxyHQ is attempting to achieve, and the difficulties that Open Source projects are currently facing.currently facing.

#WATCH

OpenAI just announced a new AI Text-to-Image model based on GPT-3 called DALL-E 2. It is capable of turning a text description into a unique image or work of art that has never been seen before.

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Learn how to use Figma Variants to design a scalable mobile app. Variants can streamline your frontend design process by allowing you to group and organize similar components into a single container.

Rapid climate change is destabilizing our world. It often seems like our emissions will not fall quickly enough and we may soon hit tipping points. This video explains the calculated risk while simultaneously giving a genuine roadmap of climate change.

#CODE

Gestalt: Pinterest’s design system

This tool includes a React component library with comprehensive guidelines, best practices, tools, and resources to support designers and engineers delivering a high-quality product.

Shader Park

A JavaScript library for creating interactive procedural 2D and 3D shaders.

Move over JavaScript: Back-end languages are coming to the front-end

A new crop of Server-Side tools is making it possible to build web UIs without Javascript.

#EVENT

Join in as Shivani Bhardwaj, a seasoned developer at Open Information Security Foundation talks about making a full time career in open source!

#NEWS

Jack Dorsey’s ‘rockey’ hardware crypto wallet

Jack Dorsey’s Block is working on a device to help people safely own and manage their Bitcoin. The company has tweeted an image showing the hardware wallet prototype with fingerprint readers and USB-C charging ports.

Astronomers discover two supermassive Black Holes orbiting each other, doomed to collide in the future

The black holes orbit each other so closely that they should merge in around 10,000 years. When this happens, the fabric of space will ripple in the form of gravitational waves, and oscillations in the matter will occur.

Coinbase debuts crypto trading in India

Coinbase is adding support for the popular UPI payment instrument in India, making its eponymous cryptocurrency exchange functional in the world’s second largest internet market for the first time.

#LEARN

Learn WordPress with TechRepublic in few hours!

Want to develop a professional-looking website but not sure where to start? With this WordPress training course, you will quickly gain web development expertise.

Command Line for Beginners

Germán Cocca has created a complete and comprehensive command line reference aimed at novice and seasoned developers alike. This article will teach you thoroughly about the command line from top to bottom.

The Beginner's Guide to Sass

Whether you're learning about SASS for the first time, or want to brush up on your knowledge of the subject, this is the article for you. In this article, Israel Mitolu will thoroughly guide you on the fundamentals of Sass, what it is, and how to use Sass's awesome features to speed up the process of writing styles.

#OSSSpotlight

Kestra: A Scalable Orchestration and Scheduling Platform

Built upon Apache Kafka and ElasticSearch, Kestra helps developers to build, run, schedule, and monitor complex pipelines.

AtomicJar: Integration testing

AtomicJar is on a mission to make integration testing easier for developers across the software development lifecycle. Richard North, the founder is already known for creating Testcontainers, an open source integration testing library.

Cal.com: An open source Calendly alternative

Cal.com like it's tagline 'scheduling infrastructure for everyone' is for everybody from yoga instructors and SMEs all the way through to enterprises. Similar to Calendly, Cal shares a scheduling link with invitees, who can then pick time slots.

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