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5 ways to improve mental health for software developers

TechCrunch

Lorna Mitchell is head of Developer Relations at Aiven , a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure. Software development at its best is a creative endeavor. Developers need a certain level of comfort to be able to produce quality work. Lorna Mitchell.

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What’s Driving Changes in Open Source Licensing?

DevOps.com

Years of SaaS innovation and disruption threaten the profitability of vendor-driven open source projects, forcing licensing changes.

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Securing Open Source Software, the Cyber Resilience Act Way

DevOps.com

The Eclipse Foundation is spearheading an effort to create a unified framework for secure software development.

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Ethyca raises $7.5M, open sources Fides for developers to build privacy tools directly into their codebases

TechCrunch

First, the New York-based startup is open sourcing a set of developer tools it has built, called Fides , so that developers can build privacy tools and monitoring mechanisms directly into their codebases. Second, it has picked up an additional $7.5

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7 Principles of Open Source Leadership

Modus Create

Instead, it was simply an offshoot of a more profound set of values that I refer to as the open-source ethos. . Open-source is all about contributing to something greater than the whole. In this post, I’ll discuss seven leadership principles inspired by the open-source community. Knowledge is indeed power.

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A researcher critical of X under Elon Musk will fight for his account in court

TechCrunch

A Berlin-based software developer is fighting back after X suspended his account, claiming that research he conducted on the platform violated the company’s terms of service. Brown worked on open source […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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How leadership can empower developers in the AI era

CIO

Imposter syndrome—doubting your abilities to the point that you feel like a fraud—is an evergreen topic of conversation among software developers. They spend their time away from work learning new languages, contributing to open-source projects, and compiling a portfolio—working, in other words.