A Look Inside the Twitter Recommendation Algorithm

Twitter is one of the most popular social media platforms today, with millions of active users worldwide. One of the key features of Twitter is its recommendation algorithm, which suggests content to users based on their interests and behaviors. In an effort to increase transparency and promote collaboration, Twitter made their recommendation algorithm open source. In this blog post, we will discuss the benefits of open-sourcing the algorithm and how it works....

April 19, 2023 · 7 min · Raghav Sethi

Framework Laptop: Mainstreaming Right to Repair

What is Framework? When it comes to buying a new laptop, there are a lot of factors to consider. The hardware, the build quality, the price, and the overall user experience are all important factors. But what about upgradability and repairability? This is where Framework comes in. Framework is a laptop company that is revolutionizing the industry by offering laptops that are modular, upgradable, and repairable. In this blog post, we will discuss Framework’s open source contribution, their new products, and their upgradability with examples....

April 11, 2023 · 4 min · Raghav Sethi

Becoming a Debian Maintainer in 90 days!

NOTE: I know this should have been posted long, long back :( However, life happened and I couldn’t. Anyway, here it goes.. I started contributing to open source around a year back and on 1st January 2019 to Debian, specifically (wasn’t really a new year resolution, though :P). I’ll be honest here. The reason behind taking the “Debian road” was solely to distract myself from the mental abuse I was going through....

June 2, 2019 · 3 min · Utkarsh Gupta

Community Unpacked

The first time, getting introduced to the world of development, I was amazed! exploring a number of technologies in the initial days of my B.Tech just for the sake of knowledge and after working on few of them at last chose, web development as my primary field. One of my classmate suggested me to join ALiAS, a coding community of Amity University, Noida which was the main branch of our college....

February 20, 2019 · 4 min · Akshat Pande

ALiAS : My first open-source community

How and when it all started? I started my college here at Amity in 2017 till then I was completely unaware of how the communities work. Few days passed, I started exploring events in colleges than one of my friends told me about ALiAS also known as (Amity Linux Assistance Sapience). He told me that there is something also known as Open-Source and this community supports open source and this community is one of its kind in the college....

February 20, 2018 · 4 min · Kaushlendra Pratap