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ISSUE #16 - May -th

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#READ

Elon Musk thinks he can double Twitter’s revenue through subscriptions alone

In a pitch deck viewed by the Times, Musk reportedly plans to drive up Twitter Blue subscribers to 69 million by 2025 and more than doubling that number to 159 million by 2028.

Where anonymity on Twitter is a matter of life or death

Elon Musk's desire to 'authenticate all humans' has users in countries like Myanmar and Saudi Arabia worried about their lives.

Spotify dances to the open source beat

Just about every technology company under the sun wants to align themselves with open source. Spotify is no different and is now is doubling down on its open source efforts.

#Aviyel Podcast

In this session, Shivani Bhardwaj from OISF talks about her journey into Open source, and the career opportunities within Open Source. How she did it, and how you can too!

#WATCH

Tech companies have seen huge declines in value over the past months. What does this mean for programmers and entrepreneurs? Let's look at bad news affecting workers and how it relates to coding jobs, venture capital, crypto, and startups.

This is a Node.js Full Course for Beginners is an all-in-one beginner tutorial and complete course full of nearly 7 hours of Node JS code and instruction to level up your programming skills.

It can be easy to get bogged down in how grid works, with a lot of new properties, values, and even units! So let's try and simplify things as much as possible, because to get started, you don't need to know everything about how Grid works.

Have you ever wondered what open source is? To explain it to evryone, Socialsquare created this stop motion video. This is just to aid in the scaling of the open source paradigm's beneficial characteristics. The video is free to use, edit, and share. So go ahead and do that!

#CODE

Simple, Secure Domain Management

Simplify your domain management, and never think of DNS again and try to Automate your domains with their simple API.

Designing with coded components – very quickly

The next step of prototyping with coded components is around the corner! Import, design with, and manage interactive UI. Try Merge Component Manager.

Eleventy: a simpler static site generator.

Eleventy is a static site generator that is easy to use. It can convert a directory of different types of templates into HTML. HTML, Markdown, JavaScript, Liquid, Nunjucks, Handlebars, Mustache, EJS, Haml, and Pug are all supported by Eleventy.

Scapy: the Python-based interactive packet manipulation program & library

Scapy is an interactive packet manipulation tool and library written in Python. It can spoof or decode packets from a variety of protocols, match requests and answers, and use pcap files to send, capture, read, or store requests.

#NEWS

Match Group sues Google over ‘monopoly power’ in Android app payments

The parent company of dating apps Tinder and OkCupid is suing Google, alleging that the company exerts too much control over payments through its Google Play app marketplace.

Meta has built a massive new language AI—and it’s giving it away for free

Meta’s AI lab has created a massive new language model of OpenAI’s pioneering neural network GPT-3. And is giving it away to researchers—together with details about how it was built and trained.

Instagram will begin testing NFTs this week.

A group of creators will soon be able to display their NFTs on Instagram. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed in a post that the company is testing NFTs on the platform.

#LEARN

GitHub will require all code contributors to use two-factor authentication

The code hosting platform cited a responsibility to boost the security of the software supply chain overall.

The 2022 state of engineering time

The State of Engineering survey for 2022 examines what software engineers do with their time and how satisfied they are with their professions. It examines what engineers want, their frustrations, the number of hours they work, and more.

Deno.js in production. Key takeaways.

Deno.js is a reworking of the Node.js JavaScript engine. It can convert a JavaScript codebase to TypeScript without the need for transpilation or magicware. Deno.js may be of interest to teams considering moving to Golang because it has a lot of use cases in common.

#OSSSpotlight

CrowdSec:Outnumbering cybercriminals all together

CrowdSec is a free, open-source and collaborative IPS. As a community firewall, it analyze behaviors, respond to attacks & share signals across the community. CrowdSec also generates the largest real-time hacking map on the Internet- anew generation of distributed Cyber Threat Intelligence.

CloudQuery: Open source cloud asset inventory powered by SQL

CloudQuery enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your cloud assets. Users can integrate CloudQuery with current visualization, and also gives you full historical snapshots of your cloud asset inventory.

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