Ignite Creativity in Hack Week
Open-source software developers, tech enthusiasts and innovators worldwide are set for Hack Week 24 that starts today and runs through Nov. 22. The event is a cornerstone of fostering creativity and collaboration and invites participants to explore per...
14 great preprocessors for developers who love to code
As much as we love them, programming languages can often feel like straitjackets. They’re a complex bundle of syntactic rules, and if we break them–even once–the compiler starts screaming out error messages. There are conventions to define every...
Designing the APIs that accidentally power businesses
In the last decade, every web application developer has become an API designer. But most organizations do not think of developers as API designers, nor do they think about APIs as a product of design — to the detriment of their developers’ product...
Spin 3.0 supports polyglot development using Wasm components
Fermyon has released Spin 3.0, a major update to its open source developer tool for building serverless WebAssembly applications. The new release introduces polyglot programming to ease development. The update to Fermyon’s Spin framework was introdu...
The dirty little secret of open source contributions
“Nobody cares if you contribute.” That’s what a Postgres friend said to me during lunch at KubeCon when I suggested that hiring Postgres contributors could be a selling point for customers. His comment surprised me because for years I’ve belie...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 17th, 2024
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for November 17th, 2024, brings news about Linux kernel 6.12, Archinstall 3.0, DXVK 2.5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5, PeaZip 10.1, digiKam 8.5, new Steam Client update, Fedora Linux 42 features, as well as all the latest d...
