The economic impact of the AI-powered developer lifecycle and lessons from GitHub Copilot
Today at Collision Conference we unveiled breaking new research on the economic and productivity impact of generative AI–powered developer tools. The research found that the increase in developer productivity due to AI could boost global GDP by over $1.5 trillion. ⌘ Read more

Yes, I still keep some old domains to redirect to sections of this blog: appydroid.eu to redirect to the app and smartphone related section and ein-geek.de to redirect to the German part of my blog. Even though I merged them about four years ago. 😄 ⌘ Read more

Overcoming challenges for a better phone: My frustrating upgrade experience
Although my old smartphone is still in perfect condition, I have made the decision to upgrade to a new model: from a Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite to a Samsung Galaxy A54. Despite its current functionality, I opted to make the switch now, with the hope that the trade-in value will remain higher compared to what it would likely be in a year when it will likely decrease. And the A54 was on sale. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: IoT Complexity Made Simple with the Versatility of Erlang and Elixir

The world is on the brink of a transformative industrial revolution known as Industry 4.0. This fourth industrial revolution is revolutionising our lives, work, and interactions on an unprecedented scale. The convergence of technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT) has enabled highly sophisticated and interconnected systems. The … ⌘ Read more

New tool to secure your GitHub Actions
Introducing a new tool to monitor and control the permissions of the repository token for GitHub Actions. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, World Refrigeration Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/26/refrigeration.html #programming #project #devjournal

On my blog: Why Care about Free Culture? https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/25/free-culture.html #rant #freeculture #media

On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Let’s Move Forward https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/24/move-forward.html #freeculture #bookclub

Just one sign of the climate crisis
Two years ago, for the first time in my life, I experienced the basement filling up after a heavy rain. And now, not even two years later, the same thing is happening again. (I and we are fine and there was not too much damage). ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 06/19 to 06/23 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/23/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Price https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/22/price.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

Erlang Solutions: Unleashing the Power of SNMP: Exposing Your Embedded Elixir/Erlang (Nerves, GRiSP) Apps to the World
Did you know that Erlang/OTP ships with built-in SNMP  (Simple Network Management Protocol) support? Using SNMP is a great way to integrate your Elixir or Erlang application into an industrial environment. This will be of particular interest for those working with embedded … ⌘ Read more

Open Source challenge results from Gamedev.js Jam 2023
Highlighting 13 of the top games plus source from the latest Gamedev.js jam–by GitHub Star and event organizer, Andrzej Mazur. ⌘ Read more

Bridging code and community
Explore the impact of non-code contributions—and why they are often undervalued, the challenges of using open source in regulated environments, and the art of managing projects at the scale of Kubernetes, now on The ReadME Podcast. ⌘ Read more

Crafting a better, faster code view
The new GitHub Code View brings users many new features to improve the code reading and exploration experiences, and we overcame a number of unique technical hurdles in order to deliver those features without compromising performance. ⌘ Read more

We Thank the Stack Overflow Community for Ranking Docker the #1 Most-Used Developer Tool
Stack Overflow’s annual 2023 Developer Survey engaged nearly 80,000 developers to learn about their work, the technologies they use, their likes and dislikes, and much, much more. As a company obsessed with serving developers, we’re honored that Stack Overflow’s community ranked Docker the #1 most-desired and #1 most-used developer tool. Since our inclusion in the […] ⌘ Read more

How to use GitHub Copilot: Prompts, tips, and use cases
In this prompt guide for GitHub Copilot, two GitHub developer advocates, Rizel and Michelle, will share examples and best practices for communicating your desired results to the AI pair programmer. ⌘ Read more

Shorter Feedback Loops Developing Java Apps with Digma’s Free Docker Extension
The Digma Docker extension acts as your own intelligent agent for monitoring code execution, especially in development and testing. ⌘ Read more

Full-Stack Reproducibility for AI/ML with Docker & Kaskada
Learn how Docker and Kaskada improve and accelerate the machine learning development cycle. ⌘ Read more

Developers need the right to challenge junk patents
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently proposed rule changes that will make it harder to challenge low quality patents. Without the ability to quickly and efficiently challenge wrongly granted patents, innovation and developers suffer. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, Juneteenth https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/19/juneteenth.html #programming #project #devjournal

On my blog: Unraveling Universality https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/18/universality.html #rant #harm

On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Green Comet, part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/17/green-comet-3.html #freeculture #bookclub

Although I have lived in Braunschweig full time for more than 23 years (and now still part time), I only recently saw this portal from 1584 for the first time. ⌘ Read more

While reddit is trying to kill itself – the CEO doesn’t seem to care much about the community (but I don’t really care about the topic enough to know for sure) – I think Lemmy is a nice alternative. Quite minimalist, but fast, has an app that isn’t cluttered with ads, and relies on ActivityPub to federate with the Fediverse. Even though reddit could reverse decisions, some people (including me) now know of better alternatives. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 06/12 to 06/16 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/16/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Enemy https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/15/enemy.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

Exploring GitHub with the redesigned navigation, now in public beta
GitHub’s redesigned navigation is enabled for all users as a public beta. ⌘ Read more

CodeQL zero to hero part 2: getting started with CodeQL
Learn the basics of CodeQL and how to use it for security research! In this blog, we will teach you how to leverage GitHub’s static analysis tool CodeQL to write custom CodeQL queries. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Lifting Your Loads for Maintainable Elixir Applications
This post will discuss one particular aspect of designing Elixir applications using the Ecto library: separating data loading from using the data which is loaded.  I will lay out the situations and present some solutions, including a new library called ecto_require_associations.

Applications will differ, but let’s look at [this example]( … ⌘ Read more

GitHub Availability Report: May 2023
In May, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into three April incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Lifting Your Loads for Maintainable Elixir Applications
This post will discuss one particular aspect of designing Elixir applications using the Ecto library: separating data loading from using the data which is loaded.  I will lay out the situations and present some solutions, including a new library called ecto_require_associations.

Applications will differ, but let’s look at [this example]( … ⌘ Read more

The park has some more nice places. 📸 ⌘ Read more

The obligatory photo, this time on a summer evening. 😊 ⌘ Read more

Survey reveals AI’s impact on the developer experience
We surveyed 500 U.S.-based developers at companies with 1,000-plus employees about how managers should consider developer productivity, collaboration, and AI coding tools. ⌘ Read more

The resources I used to pass the DVA-C02 exam
I recently passed my first AWS certification exam and am now an AWS Certified Developer Associate. I want to quickly share the resources I used to prepare. ⌘ Read more

hrxi: Windows support for Dino
Hello, I’m back!

It’s been four years since I participated in my first Google Summer of\
Code. I’m hrxi, a mathematics student from Germany. I got accepted
into this year’s Google Summer of Code program with the XMPP software\
foundation as the mentoring
organisation. I chose the extended\
timeline, so I am
going to work on [ … ⌘ Read more

GitHub’s revamped VIP Bug Bounty Program
GitHub’s VIP Bug Bounty Program has been updated to include a clear and accessible criteria for receiving an invitation to the program and more. Learn more about the program and how you can become a Hacktocat, and join our community of researchers who are contributing to GitHub’s security with fun perks and access to staff and beta features! ⌘ Read more

Survey reveals AI’s impact on the developer experience
We surveyed 500 U.S.-based developers at companies with 1,000-plus employees about how managers should consider developer productivity, collaboration, and AI coding tools. ⌘ Read more

Social media trap
reddit going dark (a protest action by many subreddit moderators over some planned API changes) reminds me that I should probably stop scrolling through Reddit so much. Reddit is a social network, and as such it attracts you with new content almost every time you visit. Which can be addictive. I once had a profile that I deleted because I wanted to leave all social media. But I fell into the same trap again. ⌘ Read more

Make your GitHub projects more accessible with accessibility-alt-text-bot
The accessibility-alt-text-bot leaves automated reminders in a comment when a user shares an image without providing meaningful alt text. ⌘ Read more

Cloud migration made easy: introducing GitHub Enterprise Importer
With GitHub Enterprise Importer, you can seamlessly move to GitHub Enterprise Cloud, bringing your code and collaboration history with you so your team doesn’t miss a beat. ⌘ Read more

JMP: JMP is Launched and Out of Beta
JMP has been in beta for over six years, and today we are finally launching! With feedback and testing from thousands of users, our team has made improvements to billing, phone network compatibility, and also helped develop the Cheogram Android app which provides a smooth onboarding process, good Android integration, and phone-like UX for users of that platform. There is still a long road ahead of us, but with so much behind us we’re comfortable saying JMP is ready for la … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, World Day Against Child Labor https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/12/child-labor.html #programming #project #devjournal

Erlang Solutions: Sign up for the RabbitMQ Summit Waiting List
Mark your calendars! The Very Early Bird tickets for the RabbitMQ Summit are set to open on 15th June, 2023. In joining the waiting list, you will receive exclusive access to the conference’s best-priced tickets.

This is your chance to secure your spot at the RabbitMQ Summit at a discounted rate, allowing you to make the most of this incredible learning and networking … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Green Comet, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/10/green-comet-2.html #freeculture #bookclub

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 06/05 to 06/09 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/09/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Unlock Docker Desktop Real-Time Insights with the Grafana Docker Extension
Explore the benefits of using the Grafana Cloud Docker Extension with Docker Desktop for enhanced observability. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Booby Trap https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/08/booby-trap.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

Maintainer Month 2023: How the community gathered to spread some maintainer love
Maintainer Month is a time for open source maintainers to gather, share, and be celebrated. Over 31 days, 16 organizations came together to offer 42 activities convening and celebrating maintainers. ⌘ Read more

Developer experience: what is it and why should you care?
Explore how investing in a better developer experience frees developers to do what matters most: building great software. ⌘ Read more

Today another view from about 650 meters near our apartment. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Call for Speakers at the RabbitMQ Summit
Are you a user, operator, developer, engineer, or simply someone with interesting user stories to tell about RabbitMQ? If so, we have some exciting news for you! The RabbitMQ Summit 2023 is just around the corner, and we are thrilled to invite you to submit your talks for this highly anticipated event.

The RabbitMQ Summit brings together a vibrant, diverse community of enthusiasts from all corne … ⌘ Read more

Announcing the All In CHAOSS DEI Badging pilot initiative
Take part in All in for Maintainers’ new pilot program that helps open source project maintainers highlight ongoing efforts in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion within their communities. ⌘ Read more

Swift support brings broader mobile application security to GitHub Advanced Security
We’ve launched the beta of code scanning support for Swift. This launch, paired with our launch of Kotlin support in November, means that CodeQL covers both IOS and Android development languages, bringing a heightened level of security to the mobile application development process. ⌘ Read more

Announcing the Stale Repos Action
A tool to help you keep your open source catalog organized and up to date. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, World Environment Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/05/environment.html #programming #project #devjournal

James Mills - vDSL2 sucks NBN sucks Copper sucks

vDSL2 sucks NBN sucks Copper sucks
It is continues to amaze me how NBN continues to operate. With over $50B AUD of taxpayer funds later (See NBN Project costs) folks like me that live in the suburbs continue to have less than ideal quality.

As of this post, I’m sitting on a vDSL2+ connection, with a Fibre to the Node backhaul, delivered by ~450m of Copper cable (last mi … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Green Comet, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/03/green-comet-1.html #freeculture #bookclub

I am finally an AWS Certified Developer Associate! 🎉 ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 05/29 to 06/02 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/02/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Applying GitOps principles to your operations
Could we use our Git repository as the source of truth for operational tasks, and somehow reconcile changes with our real-world view? ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: Apoio esta carta aberta da @wikimediapt, que também é assinada pela @ANSOL, @communia_eu, e outros, dirigida ao @cultura_pt @padaoesilva, porque a Cultura também se promove e valoriza promovendo o acesso e utilização pela sociedade de forma aberta e livre.
https://blog.wikimedia.pt/2023/06/02/carta-aberta-medidas-para-facilitar-o-acesso-as-coleccoes-museologicas-nacionais/
Apoio esta carta aberta da @wikimediapt, que também é assin … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Bonding https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/01/bonding.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

20 Jahre ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/6HL

Elevating open source contributors to open source maintainers
Experts explain how to recruit and onboard co-maintainers. ⌘ Read more

Highlights from Git 2.41
The open-source Git project just released Git 2.41. Take a look at our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.41. ⌘ Read more

My May ‘23 in Review
May is over, June has already started, so here is my short review of the past month. ⌘ Read more

Docker Desktop 4.20: Docker Engine and CLI Updated to Moby 24.0
Explore new features of the major release of Moby 24.0 in Docker Desktop 4.20. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: How ChatGPT improved my Elixir code. Some hacks are included.
I have been working as an Elixir developer for quite some time and recently came across the ChatGPT model. I want to share some of my experience interacting with it.

During my leisure hours, I am developing an open-source Elixir initiative, Crawly, that facilitates the extraction of structured data from the internet.

Here I want to demonstrate how … ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: ⏰ Tic tac tic tac - o tempo continua a contar e não vimos este abandono acontecer.

Nem nós, nem os orangotangos 🦧

Se queres saber mais sobre este tema, acede ao nosso blog: https://swki.me/EA0Ek8h9

@antoniocostapm @DuarteCordeiro

#mundoZERO #biodiversidade #óleodepalma**
⏰ Tic tac tic tac - o tempo continua a contar e não vimos este abandono acontecer.

Nem nós, nem os orangotangos 🦧

Se queres saber mais sobre este tema, acede ao nosso blog: [swki.me/EA0Ek8h9](https://swki.me/EA0Ek8 … ⌘ Read more

NixOS 23.05 released

Image

Hey everyone, we are Ryan Lahfa and Martin Weinelt,
the release managers for this stable release and we are very proud to announce the public availability of NixOS 23.05 “Stoat”.

This release will receive bugfixes and security updates for seven months (up until 2023-12-31).

… ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, Day of UN Peacekeepers https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/29/peacekeepers.html #programming #project #devjournal

Google Bard or BingGPT are actually quite useful to answer simple questions without having to scroll through many pages of clickbait and AI-generated babble blogposts. I’m currently preparing for the AWS exam (I finally signed up!) and Google Bard explained the differences between Cognito User Pools and Cognito Identity Pools in a simple and understandable way. Even with a tabular overview and examples how to use both services. Now my knowledge is refreshed again. 😄 ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Distress Beacon https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/27/distress-beacon.html #freeculture #bookclub

Rebooting a LUKS Encrypted System Without Typing The Passphrase: https://mckinley.cc/blog/20230526.html

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 05/22 to 05/26 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/26/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Who Watches the Watchers https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/25/who-watches-watchers.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

Also - the last thing I needed is sorted, how to get vs code to pick up the default.nix shell environment, there is a really nice addon for vs code that picks up what is in that file, and then set up the environment based on that, meaning I can now open the source, configure, compile and debug with vscode, this was the last piece that was missing. I will write a blog post on my website that explain what I learned, and how I fixed all these things, maybe it’ll help someone else to try NixOS for some development.

The 2023 Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Survey is live!
Help quantify the state of enterprise open source by taking the 2023 OSPO survey. ⌘ Read more

Rooting with root cause: finding a variant of a Project Zero bug
In this blog, I’ll look at CVE-2022-46395, a variant of CVE-2022-36449 (Project Zero issue 2327), and use it to gain arbitrary kernel code execution and root privileges from the untrusted app domain on an Android phone that uses the Arm Mali GPU. I’ll also explain how root cause analysis of CVE-2022-36449 led to the discovery of CVE-2022-46395. ⌘ Read more

160% Year-over-Year Growth in Pulls of Red Hat’s Universal Base Image on Docker Hub
Docker and Red Hat celebrate a substantial year-over-year increase in Red Hat Universal Base Image pulls on Docker Hub. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Here’s why you should consider investing in RabbitMQ during a recession
Europe and the US are leading the way in the forecasted recession for 2023, due to persistently high inflation and increasing interest rates. With minimal projected GDP growth, modern technologies can play a crucial role in reducing the impact of economic downturns.

As caution looms, it can be tempting to reign in on your investment. Your initial thought is to balance t … ⌘ Read more

What’s going on?
This post is meant for a little reflection because I’ve noticed a few things that I can’t quite place. ⌘ Read more

How to automate a Microsoft Power Platform deployment using GitHub Actions
Low-code enables developers and non-developers to build custom applications and solutions with less effort. In this blog, we show you how to automate your low-code deployments using GitHub Actions. ⌘ Read more

Kelsey Hightower on leadership in open source and the future of Kubernetes
In this special episode of The ReadME Podcast, dedicated to GitHub’s Maintainer Month, Kelsey Hightower joins hosts Martin Woodward and Neha Batra to discuss his philosophy on fostering thriving open source communities and the importance of empathy to a maintainer’s success. ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: CVE-2023-32315: Openfire Administration Console authentication bypass
We’ve had an important security issue reported that affects all recent versions of Openfire. We’ve fixed it in the newly published 4.6.8 and 4.7.5 releases. We recommend people upgrade as soon as possible. More info, including mitigati … ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.5 Release
The Ignite Realtime Community is happy to announce the 4.7.5 release of Openfire!

This release primarily addresses the issue that is subject of security advisory CVE-2023-32315, but also pulls in a number of improvements and bugfixes

You can find download artifacts [available here](https://ignit … ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.6.8 Release
The Ignite Realtime Community is happy to announce the 4.6.8 release of Openfire!

We have made available a new release of this older version to addresses the issue that is subject of security advisory CVE-2023-32315.

We are aware that for some, the process of deploying a new major version of Openfire is not a trivial matter, as it may encompass a lot more than only pe … ⌘ Read more

Announcing the public preview of GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps is now available for public preview, making GitHub’s same application security testing tools natively available on Azure Repos. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, World Biodiversity Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/22/biodiv.html #programming #project #devjournal

On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Death off the Cuff https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/20/death-cuff.html #freeculture #bookclub

Au-delà du blog
Un texte de Christophe F., suite à la rencontre entre lecteurs qui a eu lieu du 6 au 8 mai. Sur les blogs dissidents, complotistes ou négationnistes, les mauvaises nouvelles se suivent et se ressemblent toutes. Le lecteur désabusé, privé même de ces sursauts spontanés de rébellion séditieuse qui faisaient le bonheur des bandes-dessinées (et […] ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 05/15 to 05/19 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/19/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Still undecided between TiddlyWiki, DokuWiki, Bear, Benotes, Memos, my blog software, standardnotes, apple notes and more. I like them all quite a bit, but standardnotes, the only one that has reall multiplatform is so fucking complicated to host on your own and then they have this stupid offline subscription thing that allows rich text or the block editor that works like notion. I also found codex docs which is really really nice. Unfortunately they lack proper authentication. 1 / 2

Happy Birthday Fediverse! ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/6Gg

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Survivors https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/18/survivors.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

9 tips to go from attendee to speaker at a tech conference
Here’s what you need to know to write a compelling session proposal and get on stage. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Entendiendo procesos y concurrencia
Bienvenidos al segundo capítulo de la serie “ Elixir, 7 pasos para iniciar tu viaje” .

En el primer capítulo hablamos sobre la máquina virtual de Erlang, la BEAM, y las características que Elixir aprovecha de ella para desarrollar sistemas que son:

• Concurrentes
  
• Tolerantes a fallos
  
• Escalables y
  
• Distribuidos
  

En esta nota explicaremos qué … ⌘ Read more