Codebase

Bluesky Social, a popular beta social network, has taken a significant step towards open-source development on May 15th that will benefit users immensely. The codebase for its Bluesky Social app was made available on GitHub. This aligns with the network's goal of being "open and decentralised." Unlike Twitter, which struggles with open-source issues, Bluesky's client code is open to anyone for improvement or as a foundation for their own social networks. In contrast, Twitter's recommendation code is essentially unusable.…

Twitter chief executive officer Elon Musk said on Friday that Microsoft was given exclusive and complete access to OpenAI’s codebase as part of its investment in the generative AI firm. Microsoft, an early backer of OpenAI, has reportedly invested another $10 billion in it.“As part of their investment, Microsoft gained exclusive access to the entire OpenAI codebase,” Musk tweeted.As part of their investment, Microsoft gained exclusive access to the entire OpenAI codebase— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 1679636071000Musk cofounded…

What made Meta’s developers move their codebase from Java programming language over to Kotlin? In recent years, Kotlin has become a popular language for Android development. So, it only makes sense that Meta would shift its Android development to Kotlin as it works to make the development workflows more efficient. Meta’s Android repository is very large and reaches across its family of apps and technologies, including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Portal, and Quest. Shifting away from Java, which Meta currently…

Recently I saw a tweet by Jamie Kyle about using destructuring, default params, and inline types: That tweet and a few React components that I saw recently in my day job inspired me to write this blog post. I want to show you how using destructuring and inline types can make your TypeScript less readable!What does the TypeScript function definition look like? In JavaScript and TypeScript, you can define a function either using function keyword or lambda/arrow function. Both ways are valid but have their differences. Let's…