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Meet Necoz! 😸 Small. Simple. Useful.

Focuses on community-driven open source
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Meet Necoz! 😸 Small. Simple. Useful.

#opensource #typescript #software #community
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That's a Wrap on Hacktoberfest 2026! 🎃👻

Over 115k participants and 500+ global meetups
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That's a Wrap on Hacktoberfest 2026! 🎃👻

#hacktoberfest #hf26challenge #opensource #ai
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Prompt Pad: What Are Open-Weight Models?
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Prompt Pad: What Are Open-Weight Models?

#opensource #ai #beginners #codenewbie
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A Maintainer's Advice on Contributing to Open Source in 2026
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A Maintainer's Advice on Contributing to Open Source in 2026

#opensource #ai #github #programming
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One word in a chat took my shop offline. I built it that way.
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One word in a chat took my shop offline. I built it that way.

#ai #devops #opensource #sre
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Localhost is not authentication: fixing a CWE-306 webhook in an AI agent framework
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Localhost is not authentication: fixing a CWE-306 webhook in an AI agent framework

#security #aiagents #opensource #node
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Select first, then act: a tour of HUME
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Select first, then act: a tour of HUME

#vim #neovim #helix #opensource
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Why Node.js HTTP backpressure must count bytes, not string length
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Why Node.js HTTP backpressure must count bytes, not string length

#node #opensource #performance #javascript
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Mining 14,351 Chess Puzzles with Stockfish 18 (and the Illegal-FEN Trap in chess.js)
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Mining 14,351 Chess Puzzles with Stockfish 18 (and the Illegal-FEN Trap in chess.js)

#javascript #swift #opensource #gamedev
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Crowdwide v2: A Few Changes, Some Google Impressions, and 2 New Communities Updates!
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Crowdwide v2: A Few Changes, Some Google Impressions, and 2 New Communities Updates!

#discuss #webdev #opensource #buildinpublic
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Home-made Evals Just Taste Better
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Home-made Evals Just Taste Better

#evals #ai #ruby #opensource
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I Decoded 208 Round, Triangle and Hexagon QR Codes. Here's What Actually Breaks Them
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I Decoded 208 Round, Triangle and Hexagon QR Codes. Here's What Actually Breaks Them

#javascript #opensource #programming #softwaredevelopment
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How to switch Java versions on Windows with one command (no more editing JAVA_HOME)
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How to switch Java versions on Windows with one command (no more editing JAVA_HOME)

#java #windows #rust #opensource
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كيف بنيتُ متحفًا عربيًا أولًا كبيانات مفتوحة: 47,889 مدخلًا، رسم كيانات، وبوّابات تحقق
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كيف بنيتُ متحفًا عربيًا أولًا كبيانات مفتوحة: 47,889 مدخلًا، رسم كيانات، وبوّابات تحقق

#arabic #opensource #opendata #webdev
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I Turned My Laptop's Idle 6GB of VRAM Into Swap and It Stopped Crawling at 90% RAM
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I Turned My Laptop's Idle 6GB of VRAM Into Swap and It Stopped Crawling at 90% RAM

#linux #nvidia #opensource #performance
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