GoodFirstIssue Weekly #3

📢 In this week’s email 📢 

• A rundown of AutoGPT, and why it’s not coming for our jobs…yet! 🤖

• NodeJS gets some snazzy new updates with the release of V20 🚀

• AWS is finally giving back to the open-source community in a meaningful way, and it’s about time 🧑‍💻 

⚡️ Featured Open-Source Project of the Week ⚡️

Wayback

Wayback describes itself as “an archiving tool with an IM-style interface, integrated with various archival services including Internet Archive, archive.today, IPFS, Telegraph, and file systems”. Basically this tool allows you to archive and store webpages!

Code repository link here

🗒️ Open-Source Issues for First Timers 🗒️

- Automated CI tests

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Language: Python

- Navbar breaking in mobile devices

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Language: JavaScript

- Increase unit testing coverage

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Language: Python

As always, you can always find repositories in need of help at goodfirstissue.io

✍️ Open-Source Community News and Stories ✍️ 

What is Auto-GPT and why does it matter?

Is AutoGPT the end of mundane tasks as we know it? Probably not, but it can do some interesting things already. This article by Techcrunch highlights what AutoGPT is, how it works, and what it’s (kind of) capable and not capabale of…yet. Check it out!

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Node.js 20 introduces permissions model

This article highlights an experimental feature that released with NodeJS 20 that allows you to control resource access during code execution. An example of this would be only allowing code to be executed against a specific filesystem and nowhere else. It also mentions some other cool features that were released.

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Amazon’s quiet open source revolution

Historically Amazon, more specifically AWS, hasn’t been at the forefront of contributing back to the open-source community it greatly benefits from. That’s beginning to change apparently, and this article takes a brief but information packed walk through that change. Changes are happening within AWS, changes for the better, in my opinion!

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Thanks for reading, and happy coding!