How can the United States build its Open Source Software policy?
We share a recap of a recent roundtable event about what a federal open source software policy could look like in the United States. ⌘ Read more

Open Source Monthly: June 2022 Edition
June’s Open Source Monthly features Mondos–a community-focused company building software and hardware that designs digital devices with respect for users’ time, attention, and well-being. ⌘ Read more

wait, is CIRL incorrigible for the same reason that utility-maximizers don’t wirehead? https://niplav.github.io/notes.html#A-Short-Example-For-Why-CIRL-Is-Incorrigible

Implementing a robust digital identity
How can you robustly assert and identify a user’s identity? ⌘ Read more

How we think about browsers
Discover how GitHub thinks about browser support, look at usage patterns, and learn about the tools we use to make sure our customers are getting the best experience. ⌘ Read more

Dependabot Updates hit GA in GHES
Dependabot is generally available in GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5. Here is how to set up Dependabot on your instance. ⌘ Read more

Introducing Entitlements: GitHub’s open source Identity and Access Management solution
We’re excited to announce that we’re open sourcing our Identity and Access Management solution: Entitlements. ⌘ Read more

Introducing Achievements: recognizing the many stages of a developer’s coding journey
Available in public beta today, we’re announcing Achievements as a new way to commemorate milestones on GitHub. ⌘ Read more

Sunsetting Atom
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022. ⌘ Read more

One developer’s journey bringing Dependabot to GitHub Enterprise Server
A personal story about building the feature you want and sharing it with the world. ⌘ Read more

Introducing GitHub Skills
Today, we’re announcing GitHub Skills, a new learning experience to help you throughout your GitHub journey. ⌘ Read more

A beginner’s guide to CI/CD and automation on GitHub
CI/CD and workflow automation are native capabilities on GitHub platform. Here’s how to start using them and speed up your workflows. ⌘ Read more

What’s new in security and user management for GitHub Enterprise
Learn how you can securely manage users with the latest ships for GitHub Enterprise. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Team or Free? How to choose the right plan
Read about all the features you may not have known come on the GitHub Free plan, and how to choose the right plan for you. ⌘ Read more

Welcome to Maintainer Month! 🎉
During the month of June, we’re holding space for open source maintainers to gather, share, and be celebrated. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Availability Report: May 2022
In May, we experienced three distinct incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple services across GitHub.com. This report also sheds light into the billing incident that impacted Actions and Codespaces users in April. ⌘ Read more

Connecting to a private network from GitHub-hosted Actions runners
Several ways for GitHub-hosted Actions runners to connect to resources on your private network. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Sponsors launches in Brazil
GitHub Sponsors is now available in Brazil—an exciting expansion for one of our fastest growing developer communities. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5 is now generally available
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5 is available now, including access to the Container registry, the addition of Dependabot, enhanced administrator capabilities, and features for GitHub Advanced Security. ⌘ Read more

Top games + source code from Gamedev.js Jam 2022
The recently-ended Gamedev.js Jam 2022 encouraged game developers to create web games and share their sources on GitHub. GitHub Star ⭐️ @end3r shares the best 13 entries and sees what experts and other participants think of them. ⌘ Read more

NixOS 22.05 released

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Hey everyone, I’m Janne Heß,
the release manager for 22.05. As promised, the latest stable
release is here: NixOS 22.05 “Quokka”.

• Release manual - Highlights
  
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npm security update: Attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens
npm’s impact analysis of the attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens and additional findings. ⌘ Read more

How we use Dependabot to secure GitHub
A two-part story about how GitHub’s Product Security Engineering team rolled out Dependabot internally to track vulnerable dependencies, and how GitHub tracks and prioritizes technical debt. ⌘ Read more

Improved REST API documentation
We’re excited to announce some big improvements to our REST API documentation. We know developers rely on this documentation to integrate with GitHub, and we are committed to making it trustworthy, easy to find, and easy to use. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Sponsors launches in India
GitHub Sponsors is now available to all developers in India – no more waitlist, you can sign up right away! ⌘ Read more

Eight years of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty program
It was another record year for our Security Bug Bounty program. We’re excited to highlight some achievements we’ve made together with the bounty community from 2021! ⌘ Read more

Release Radar · April 2022 Edition
Each month, we highlight open source projects that have shipped major updates. These include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend projects. Here are our top staff picks on projects that shipped major version releases in April. Flyte 1.0 I was lucky enough to discover Flyte during Hacktoberfest last year. Now, Flyte has […] ⌘ Read more

Action needed by GitHub Connect customers using GHES 3.1 and older to adopt new authentication token format updates
Upgrade to GHES 3.2 or newer by June 3rd to continue using GitHub Connect. ⌘ Read more

Math support in Markdown
Mathematical expressions are key to information sharing amongst engineers, scientists, data scientists, and mathematicians. Today we are pleased to announce that math expressions can be rendered in Markdown on GitHub using $$ as a delimiter for code blocks with math content or the $ delimiter for inline math expressions. ⌘ Read more

How we’re continuing to enable all developers to build
Learn about what GitHub is doing to make their products more inclusive, and what’s next. ⌘ Read more

Securing and delivering high-quality code with innersource metrics
With innersource, it’s important to measure both the amount of innersource activity and the quality of the code being created. Here’s how. ⌘ Read more

How to measure innersource across your organization
The innersource contribution percentage is the rate of contributions from people outside the team that originally authored the software. Let’s dive into what it can look like for your organization. ⌘ Read more

How we’re using projects to build projects
At GitHub we use GitHub to build our own products, and the new projects experience is no different. Check out how our team uses projects to build powerful project planning for developers. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Achieves ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Certification!
GitHub’s Information Security Management System (ISMS) has been certified against ISO 27001:2013, an internationally recognized standard for security program best practices. ⌘ Read more

Graduation is here! Celebrate the Class of 2022, and join GitHub on June 11 🎓
This year, thousands of students from around the world came together and redefined the world we live in, how we learn, and how we move forward. We are honored to be part of the experience and eager to celebrate this milestone. So on June 11 we celebrate the Class of 2022 and welcome them to […] ⌘ Read more

Open Source Monthly – May 2022 Edition
Introduction Open Sauced, GitHub’s Explore page, Hacktoberfest, and First Timers Only help folks discover open source projects. This monthly series–Open Source Monthly—will add to these efforts by helping: First-time contributors find the right project to contribute to Corporations and individuals find a new project to sponsor Open source maintainers gain more consistent contributors and sponsors […] ⌘ Read more

Enhanced 2FA experience for your npm account
Late last year, in response to an unprecedented series of account takeovers resulting from the compromise of developer accounts without 2FA enabled, we committed to a variety of enhancements to the npm registry to make two-factor authentication (2FA) adoption easier for developers. Today, we are launching a public beta for a significantly improved 2FA experience […] ⌘ Read more

@niplav@niplav.github.io Do you have a particular meaning in mind for “long site”, or do you mean all the possible meanings for “long site”?

@niplav@niplav.github.io and I thought evidentials were invented by the Lojban people or maybe North American amerinds, not Eastern Europeans

@niplav@niplav.github.io I have a favorite line of prose written around here somewhere but it’s only understandable by a tiny slice of gamers with literal-Boomer media sensibilities. Posting it would break the Internet.

Supercharging GitHub Actions with Job Summaries
You can now output and group custom Markdown content on the Actions run summary page. ⌘ Read more

Prepare for next semester with GitHub Global Campus and Codespaces
Teachers, it is now your turn to join GitHub Global Campus with our student community! Get access to exclusive benefits, programs, and the Power of Codespaces at no cost in GitHub Classroom! ⌘ Read more

Today’s most common security vulnerabilities explained
We’re taking a look at some of the most common security vulnerabilities and detailing how developers can best protect themselves. ⌘ Read more

20 of our favorite games + source code from Ludum Dare 50
20 of our favorite games plus source code from the latest Ludum Dare competition. ⌘ Read more

The ReadME Project Q&A: What you need to know about teaching technical skills
Teaching is a great way to not only help others but to better learn a topic yourself. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Availability Report: April 2022
In April, we experienced two distinct incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for Codespaces and GitHub Packages. ⌘ Read more

Software security starts with the developer: Securing developer accounts with 2FA
GitHub will require all users who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of 2023. ⌘ Read more

Being friendly: Strategies for friendly fork management
This is the second and final post in a series describing friendly forks and alternative strategies for managing them. ⌘ Read more

Bringing code navigation to communities
Thanks to the efforts of the Elixir community, GitHub supports code navigation for Elixir repositories. Read how favorite language can add this support too! ⌘ Read more

Best practices to keep your projects secure on GitHub
These days software is subject to an ever-changing threat landscape. Check out the many ways you can keep your projects secure on GitHub today. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Desktop 3.0 brings better integration for your pull requests
GitHub Desktop 3.0 brings better integration with your GitHub Pull Requests. You can now receive real time notifications and review the status of your check runs for your pull request. ⌘ Read more

Celebrating 40 years of ZX Spectrum ❤️ 💛 💚 💙
The ZX Spectrum, one of the best-selling microcomputers of all time, celebrates its 40 years anniversary today. Read more about how the community is still active - creating new content, archiving old content, and hacking on all sorts of hardware. ⌘ Read more

Removing the stigma of a CVE
Do you worry that a CVE will hurt the reputation of your project? In reality, CVEs are a tracking number, and nothing more. Here’s how we think of them at GitHub. ⌘ Read more

5 simple things every developer can do to ship more secure code
From plug-and-play automations to protected branches, here are simple ways any developer can build more secure software on GitHub—all with a free account. ⌘ Read more

Your guide to GitHub InFocus: Improving the way software development teams work in 2022
We’re kicking off InFocus, a global virtual event focused on accelerating, securing, and improving the way software development teams work. ⌘ Read more

Improving Git push times through faster server side hooks
The history of pre-receive hooks, how we discovered that the performance was problematic, and how we went about safely replacing them. ⌘ Read more

Organization profiles leading the way
Organization profiles can now display custom content visible only to members of the organization. A new Member view can be tailored to show an alternative README and pinned private repositories. ⌘ Read more

Codespaces for multi-repository and monorepo scenarios
We’re releasing exciting improvements that will streamline your Codespaces experience when working with multi-repository projects and monorepos. ⌘ Read more

Sharing security expertise through CodeQL packs (Part I)
Introducing CodeQL packs to help you codify and share your knowledge of vulnerabilities. ⌘ Read more

Highlights from Git 2.36
Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.36. ⌘ Read more

Security alert: Attack campaign involving stolen OAuth user tokens issued to two third-party integrators
On April 12, GitHub Security began an investigation that uncovered evidence that an attacker abused stolen OAuth user tokens issued to two third-party OAuth integrators, Heroku and Travis-CI, to download data from dozens of organizations, including npm. Read on to learn more about the impact to GitHub, npm, and our users. ⌘ Read more

9 wikipedia edits today! yay me! (also a bunch of small scale contributions to other people’s texts: https://niplav.github.io/contributions.html)

Dependabot alerts now surface if your code is calling a vulnerability
Today, we’re shipping a new feature for Dependabot alerts which helps you better understand how you’re affected by a vulnerability. ⌘ Read more

Git security vulnerability announced
Upgrade your local installation of Git, especially if you are using Git for Windows, or you use Git on a multi-user machine. ⌘ Read more

What’s new in GitHub Discussions: Organization Discussions, polls, and more
Today, we’re excited to bring you a few new features that will help you communicate, collaborate, and connect seamlessly with teams and communities about the software you’re building with the help of GitHub Discussions. ⌘ Read more

Performance at GitHub: deferring stats with rack.after_reply
How we sped up GitHub.com by moving slow, non-critical code into rack.after_reply. ⌘ Read more

Release Radar · March 2022 Edition
Each month, we highlight open source projects that have shipped major updates. These include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend projects. Here are our top staff picks on projects that shipped major version releases in March. Babylon.js 5.0 We featured Babylon.js in the November 2020 Release Radar. Since then, Babylon.js has come […] ⌘ Read more

Git Credential Manager: authentication for everyone
Ensuring secure access to your source code is more important than ever. Git Credential Manager helps make that easy. ⌘ Read more

Achieving SLSA 3 Compliance with GitHub Actions and Sigstore for Go modules
Learn how to build packages with SLSA 3 provenance using GitHub Actions. ⌘ Read more

My website is very Piling. look at the todo list: https://niplav.github.io/todo.html! i can’t tell you much about how it will look like in a year, but i can tell you that it won’t shrink. it’s piling. everything is piling up, forgotten drafts, half-finished experiments, buggy code—fixed over time, sure, but much more slowly than the errors come rolling in. it’s an eternal struggle.

fifth, small & nifty programs. https://niplav.github.io/code/99_klong/sol.kg being exemplary, but i want to write some more code. every single function there is Done. there is only stuff to remove, if at all, and nothing to add.

GitHub Availability Report: March 2022
In March, we experienced several incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple GitHub services. ⌘ Read more

Prevent the introduction of known vulnerabilities into your code
The new dependency review action and API prevents the introduction of known supply chain vulnerabilities into your code. ⌘ Read more

How Dependabot empowers you to keep your projects secure
We want to take away the pain and effort of keeping your code secure, so check out how Dependabot empowers developers to keep to their projects secure. ⌘ Read more

4 ways we use GitHub Actions to build GitHub
From automating builds and releases to taking care of large-scale regression testing, here are a few ways we use GitHub Actions to build GitHub. ⌘ Read more

Proactively prevent secret leaks with GitHub Advanced Security secret scanning
Organizations with GitHub Advanced Security can now proactively protect against secret leaks with secret scanning’s new push protection feature. ⌘ Read more

How GitHub does take home technical interviews
We believe our technical interviews should be as similar as possible to the way we work at GitHub. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Copilot now available for Visual Studio 2022
GitHub Copilot is now available from Visual Studio 2022 for everyone in the technical preview. ⌘ Read more

for what i’ve invested in my site, it’s now probably time to move it off github.io on my own domain

How to secure your end-to-end supply chain on GitHub
Securing your projects is no easy task, but end-to-end supply chain security is more top of mind than ever. We’ve seen bad actors expand their focus to taking over user accounts, commonly used dependencies, and also build systems. Defending against these attacks is hard, because there’s no one thing you can do to protect your […] ⌘ Read more

Unlock all the GitHub secrets within Next.Tech’s newest experience: Break the Code 2!
GitHub Education is fired up for the return of Next.Tech’s developer community competition: Break the Code 2. We’ve hacked in some new enigmas, cheat codes, and easter eggs for digital sleuths to uncover! ⌘ Read more

Back to GitHub
Not too long ago I reported how I build the Docker images for GoBlog using Drone and Docker-in-Docker. ⌘ Read more

An update on recent service disruptions
Over the past few weeks, we have experienced multiple incidents due to the health of our database. We wanted to share what we know about these incidents while our team continues to address them. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Actions: secure self-hosted runners by limiting them to specific workflows
You can now enforce consistent usage of self-hosted runner groups across your organization and enterprise. ⌘ Read more

Improving your GitHub feed
Today, we are rolling out a new beta version of GitHub’s home feed, making it easier to discover projects, developers and more across GitHub. ⌘ Read more

Introducing the GHES repository cache
If you’re a GHES customer with heavy read traffic on your monorepo, check out the repository cache, especially if you have CI workloads distributed around the world. ⌘ Read more

Start working on GitHub Issues faster
You can now create a branch to work on an issue directly from the issue page so that it’s easier to get started right away. ⌘ Read more

Validate all the things: improve your security with input validation!
If there’s one habit that can make software more secure, it’s probably input validation. Here’s how to apply OWASP Proactive Control C5 (Validate All Inputs) to your code. ⌘ Read more

Annotate PDFs on Linux
This post is about a GUI tool called pdfrankestein that
fills a gap on mostly Linux machines where a powerful and easy to use
PDF annotator does not exist.

Adobe Acrobat® on Windows and Mac allow you to add text, drawings and
signatures to PDF documents. This is useful when filling forms or
marking notes to send back to someone. Such a tool with similar
capabilities and easy of use does not exist on Linux. The reason that’s
often cited is that PDF is a c … ⌘ Read more

Release Radar · February 2022 Edition
Our community has shipped lots of open source project updates in the last month. Here’s a few of our staff picks. ⌘ Read more

Back to twtxt from the cli with twet https://github.com/jdtron/twet

Back to twtxt from the cli with twet https://github.com/jdtron/twet

Save time with partial re-runs in GitHub Actions
It is now possible to re-run only failed jobs or a single job in GitHub Actions workflows. ⌘ Read more

Improved management for GitHub Enterprise owners
We’ve introduced several new features to help enterprise owners more easily manage their accounts, including two features now in public beta. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Availability Report: February 2022
In February, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact to multiple GitHub services. ⌘ Read more

Our response to the war in Ukraine
As the global response to the tragedies in Ukraine and other impacted regions continues to evolve, I wanted to share with our community an expansion of the message that I shared earlier this week with our Hubbers. ⌘ Read more

@niplav@niplav.github.io 3½ hours a week…closing your 30-minute Exercise ring right on the dot, with no extra time?

A new way to understand your GitHub-hosted runner capacity
Explore and understand your overall GitHub-hosted Actions runner capacity with the new runner view. ⌘ Read more

Codespaces for the largest repositories just got faster
The ability to prebuild codespaces is entering public beta. Enable fast environment creation times, regardless of the size and complexity of your repositories. ⌘ Read more

Get started with ease using security workflows!
In-line with the other categories, workflows in the Security category will be recommended based on a repository’s content. ⌘ Read more