Introducing the newest GitHub Shop collection
From dog bowl bottles to fanny packs, explore the latest and greatest GitHub merchandise. ⌘ Read more

Generative AI-enabled compliance for software development
Explore how generative AI may soon help enable optimizing some of the foundational components of compliance. ⌘ Read more

JMP: Verify Google Play App Purchase on Your Server
We are preparing for the first-ever Google Play Store launch of Cheogram Android as part of JMP coming out of beta later this year.  One of the things we wanted to “just work” for Google Play users is to be able to pay for the app and get their first month of JMP “bundled” into that purchase price, to smooth the common onboarding experience.  So how do the JMP servers know that the app communicating with them is running a version of the app bought from Google P … ⌘ Read more

How enabling developers can help drive financial inclusion
Explore how creating a great developer experience can help provide a more inclusive financial services environment. ⌘ Read more

It’s spring! 💐 ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, Siblings Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/10/siblings.html #programming #project #devjournal

Since I found a cheap lifetime license for AdGuard Premium, I’ll try it on my phone for a while. I’ve also configured it with my strict NextDNS profile. But now my phone not only filters DNS requests to block ads, but also HTTP requests. And while uBlock Origin works pretty well in Firefox on Android, I decided to disable it while using AdGuard to see how the performance compares. ⌘ Read more

Happy Easter 🐰 ⌘ Read more

Happy Easter 🐰 ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Great Ideas from Terrible Jobs https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/09/ideas.html #rant #career

Too lazy or too ambitious?
Today was the second day of my “Hell Week”. Not because my week is so bad, it is after all holidays and time off, no, because I have arrived in the last week of the “Training Journey” at Freeletics. At the end of the Journey, the “coach” requires training every day, usually a so-called “god workout” in addition to warm-up and cool-down. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Snowbound Blood part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/08/snowbound-blood-3.html #freeculture #bookclub

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 04/03 to 04/07 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/07/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

What developers need to know about generative AI
Generative AI has been dominating the news lately—but what exactly is it? Here’s what you need to know, and what it means for developers. ⌘ Read more

Game Bytes · April 2023
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! ⌘ Read more

Kev built his own microblog using WordPress and iOS shortcuts to separate his long and short posts. It sounds like this is a better alternative for him than micro.blog. Maybe with SQLite as the database he can even simplify this setup. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Emissary https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/06/emissary.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

Building GitHub with Ruby and Rails
Since the beginning, GitHub.com has been a Ruby on Rails monolith. Today, the application is nearly two million lines of code and more than 1,000 engineers collaborate on it daily. We deploy as often as 20 times a day, and nearly every week one of those deploys is a Rails upgrade. Upgrading Rails weekly Every […] ⌘ Read more

Pwning Pixel 6 with a leftover patch
In this post, I’ll look at a security-related change in version r40p0 of the Arm Mali driver that was AWOL in the January update of the Pixel bulletin, where other patches from r40p0 was applied, and how these two lines of changes can be exploited to gain arbitrary kernel code execution and root from a malicious app. This highlights how treacherous it can be when backporting security changes. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: You’ve been curious about LiveView, but you haven’t gotten into it
As a backend developer, I’ve spent most of my programming career away from frontend development. Whether it’s React/Elm for the web or Swift/Kotlin for mobile, these are fields of knowledge that fall outside of what I usually work with.

Nonetheless, I always wanted to have a tool at my disposal for building rich frontends. While the web seemed like the platform with the lowest bar … ⌘ Read more

Bring your enterprise together with enterprise accounts for all
With enterprise accounts for all, your organization can take advantage of all that GitHub Enterprise has to offer, from GitHub Actions and GitHub Advanced Security, to Copilot. ⌘ Read more

Docker Desktop 4.18: Docker Scout Updates, Container File Explorer GA
Docker Desktop 4.18 brings new CLI features in Docker Scout and Docker init, a CLI Beta feature to help you quickly add Docker to any project, and more. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Availability Report: March 2023
In March, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into a February incident that resulted in degraded performance for GitHub Codespaces. ⌘ Read more

Building organization-wide governance and re-use for CI/CD and automation with GitHub Actions
Many of us are aware of the benefits that a strong focus on automation can bring, particularly in our development workflow and DevOps lifecycle. But silos across businesses can lead to duplication of effort, and potential to lose out on best practices. In this post, we’ll explore how CI/CD can be shared across your entire organization alongside polici … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Normalizing Image Type and Size https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/05/file-type-size.html #linux #programming #techtips

Erlang Solutions: Captura de datos con Postgres y Elixir
La captura de datos es el proceso de identificar y capturar cambios de datos en la base de datos.

Con captura de datos, los cambios en los datos pueden ser rastreados casi en tiempo real, y esa información puede ser utilizada para apoyar una variedad de casos de uso, incluyendo auditoría, replicación y sincronización.

Un buen ejemplo de un caso de uso para captura de datos es considerar una aplicación que inserta un registro en la b … ⌘ Read more

What’s new with GitHub Sponsors
GitHub Sponsors is now generally available for organizations. Also, new tooling for bulk sponsorships and an update on how we’re ensuring sustainability for GitHub Sponsors. ⌘ Read more

Level up monitoring and reporting for your enterprise
A high-quality audit log is an essential tool for enterprises to ensure compliance, maintain security, investigate issues, and promote accountability. ⌘ Read more

Calling all open source maintainers
We are building a private space for maintainers to connect with peers, preview features, and learn from each other! ⌘ Read more

Aufkleber ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/p/6GC

On my blog: Developer Diary, Yuknoom Yich’aak K’ahk’ https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/03/yuknoom.html #programming #project #devjournal

On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Snowbound Blood part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/01/snowbound-blood-2.html #freeculture #bookclub

Ignite Realtime Blog: Spark 3.0.2 Released
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the availability of Spark version 3.0.2

The release contains bug fixes and updates two plugins Translator and Roar.

Many Spark translations are incomplete. Please help us translate Spark

Full list of changes can be found in the changelog.

We encourage users and developers to get invo … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 03/27 to 03/31 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/31/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

CodeQL zero to hero part 1: the fundamentals of static analysis for vulnerability research
Learn more about static analysis and how to use it for security research!
In this blog post series, we will take a closer look at static analysis concepts, present GitHub’s static analysis tool CodeQL, and teach you how to leverage static analysis for security research by writing custom CodeQL queries. ⌘ Read more

My March ‘23 in Review
And again a month is over, March comes to an end, April begins. A short review. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Manhunt https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/30/manhunt.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

Improvements to CodeQL’s data flow library for C++
These changes will improve the experience for custom query authors and enable better precision in some of our standard queries. Learn how to enable them for your custom queries. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: 5 Key Tech Priorities for Fintech Leaders in 2023
The fintech industry is a major disruptor. Each year, it impacts how consumers interact with financial companies and brings new and innovative means to meet ever-growing customer expectations and occupy market space.

As a business owner or executive in this space, you have no choice but to stay on top of your game to increase efficiency.

In simpler terms, if your business doesn’t scale, it could fail.

That mig … ⌘ Read more

I just wrote a mega blog post that has been on my mind for months

logs/blog: adventures in uxn and crystal; logs/photojournal: moar

Erlang Solutions: Cómo depurar tu RabbitMQ
Descubre las herramientas y métodos adecuados para la depuración de RabbitMQ.

Lo que aprenderás en este blog.

Nuestros clientes de consultoría de RabbitMQ provienen de una amplia gama de industrias. Como resultado, hemos visto casi todos los comportamientos inesperados que puede presentar. RabbitMQ es un software complejo que emplea concurrencia y cómputo distribuido (a través de Erlang), por lo que depurarlo no siempre es sencillo. Para llegar a la causa … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Mastodon’s API (The Pitfalls) https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/29/mastodon-api.html #mastodon #programming #techtips

WordPress with SQLite
Philipp’s recent post on WordPress with SQLite reminded me to give the migration of a site I maintain for someone else a second try. ⌘ Read more

Enabling a No-Code Performance Testing Platform Using the Ddosify Docker Extension
Learn about the Ddosify Docker Extension and how use it for performance testing. ⌘ Read more

WordPress with SQLite
Philipp’s recent post on WordPress with SQLite reminded me to give the migration of a site I maintain for someone else a second try. ⌘ Read more

Containerizing an Event Posting App Built with the MEAN Stack
Learn how to containerize a MEAN stack application with Docker. ⌘ Read more

Some photo impressions from our walk today through the nearby park in Kassel. ⌘ Read more

Introducing self-service SBOMs
Developers and compliance teams get a new SBOM generation tool for cloud repositories. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Galaxy 2023: Empower developer teams with a new developer experience
Learn how GitHub’s one, integrated platform–powered by AI and secure at every step—helps developer teams be more productive, collaborative, and efficient. ⌘ Read more

Announcing the GitHub Actions extension for VS Code
Today, we’re excited to announce the release of the public beta of the official GitHub Actions VS Code extension, which provides support for authoring and editing workflows and helps you manage workflow runs without leaving your IDE. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Here’s Why You Should Build Scalable and Concurrent Applications with Elixir
In today’s world, when dealing with high levels of system requests, you need applications that can handle them without slowing down. Here’s where Elixir comes in. Elixir is a programming language that is designed to create highly scalable and concurrent applications. Built on Erlang’s virtual machine (BEAM), it has been used for decades to build highly reliable … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, World Theatre Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/27/theatre.html #programming #project #devjournal

On my blog: Modern Social Media Etiquette https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/26/etiquette.html #rant #socialmedia #harm

On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Snowbound Blood part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/25/snowbound-blood-1.html #freeculture #bookclub

We’re No Longer Sunsetting the Free Team Plan
We’re reversing course. After taking in feedback from the community, we’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan. ⌘ Read more

If you regularly work remotely (away from home and the office), a portable monitor is one of the best investments you can make. I’ve had my HANNspree HL162 for almost a year now and it’s really helpful when I work from my family’s home. Having two screens really increases my productivity. 😄 ⌘ Read more

GoBlog’s new ChatGPT integration
There’s been a lot of AI hype lately. Everyone is integrating AI into their applications. ⌘ Read more

Google Bard is a bit too creative. In another chat, where I asked who “Jan-Lukas Else” is, it also said that I developed the “Quarkus programming language”. But this clearly shows the limitations of language models and the current state of AI. Just because the answers sound clever, they are not always right. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 03/20 to 03/24 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/24/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

We updated our RSA SSH host key
At approximately 05:00 UTC on March 24, out of an abundance of caution, we replaced our RSA SSH host key used to secure Git operations for GitHub.com. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Up The Long Ladder https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/23/up-long-ladder.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

Effortlessly Build Machine Learning Apps with Hugging Face’s Docker Spaces
Learn about the Hugging Face Hub and how to use its Docker Spaces to build machine learning apps effortlessly. ⌘ Read more

Docker and Hugging Face Partner to Democratize AI
We’re excited to announce that Happy Face and Docker are partnering to democratize AI and make it more accessible to software engineers! ⌘ Read more

Docker and Ambassador Labs Announce Telepresence for Docker, Improving the Kubernetes Development Experience
We’re happy to announce Telepresence for Docker, simplifying how teams develop and test on Kubernetes for faster app delivery. ⌘ Read more

Build a secure code mindset with the GitHub Secure Code Game
Writing secure code is as much of an art as writing functional code, and it is the only way to write quality code. Learn how our Secure Code Game can provide you with hands-on training to spot and fix security issues in your code so that you can build a secure code mindset. ⌘ Read more

Announcing Docker+Wasm Technical Preview 2
Get the latest news on Docker+Wasm, including our work with partners to support more runtimes while making it easier to run Wasm workloads with Docker. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience
GitHub Copilot is evolving to bring chat and voice interfaces, support pull requests, answer questions on docs, and adopt OpenAI’s GPT-4 for a more personalized developer experience. ⌘ Read more

Google Bard is a bit too creative. In another chat, where I asked who “Jan-Lukas Else” is, it also said that I developed the “Quarkus programming language”. But this clearly shows the limitations of language models and the current state of AI. Just because the answers sound clever, they are not always right. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, International Day of Happiness https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/20/happiness.html #programming #project #devjournal

On my blog: Fiction — Bank on It https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/19/banks.html #freeculture #politics #scifi #fiction

Beautiful sunny day with 17 degrees. So I put on my sunglasses and ride the pedelec a bit. 😎 ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Delilah H. Smith https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/18/dhs.html #freeculture #bookclub

Ignite Realtime Blog: Release v1.1.0 of the MUC Real-Time Block List plugin for Openfire
We are happy to announce the immediate availability of a new version of the MUC Real-Time Block List plugin for Openfire, our cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP protocol! This plugin can help you moderate your chat rooms, especially when your service is part of a larger network of federate … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 03/13 to 03/17 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/17/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Partnering with EU policymakers to ensure the Cyber Resilience Act works for developers
We’re looking forward to working with policymakers to improve cybersecurity and support developers. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Samaritan Snare https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/16/samaritan-snare.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

We apologize. We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams.
We apologize for how we communicated and executed sunsetting Docker “Free Team” subscriptions, which alarmed the open source community. Read our FAQ to learn more. ⌘ Read more

Godot 4.0 Release Party 🎉
We are delighted to host the Godot 4.0 Release Party at GitHub HQ on Wednesday, March 22 from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. And you’re invited! ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Here’s Why You Should Build Scalable Systems with Erlang
Building systems in the earlier days of the internet used to be pretty simple.

While the system was admittedly pretty limited, the demand to scale past one or two servers wasn’t particularly high. But upon entering the 21st century, we saw large companies (think Amazon, Starbucks, Yahoo) and many more find the need to scale not just a few servers, but thousands. Even tens of thousands. Suddenly, the … ⌘ Read more

I’m currently validating the use of the OpenAI API as a cheaper and more powerful alternative to the Google Translate API. I hope my plans succeed and there will be a new GoBlog plugin with some AI power soon. ✨ So far the OpenAI API is quite easy to use, I thought it would be more complicated. Philipp is already using the API for his diary, another cool idea (which I may copy someday). ⌘ Read more

How the Grafana Alerting team scales their issue management with GitHub Projects
Hear from Grafana’s Armand Grillet about how his team uses GitHub Projects. ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Developing Openfire Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) functionality
We am excited to announce that a new plugin for the Openfire real time collaboration server is in the works! This plugin implements Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) functionality and provides an XMPP implementation of EXI as defined in XEP-0322.

Ef … ⌘ Read more

GitHub celebrates the ingenuity of developers with disabilities in new video series
Learn how developers with disabilities are pushing the boundaries of accessibility with ingenuity, open source, and generative AI on The ReadME Project. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Presentamos el soporte de transmisión en RabbitMQ
¿Quiere saber más sobre el soporte de transmisión en RabbitMQ? Arnaud Cogoluègnes, ingeniero de personal de VMware, desglosa todo lo que hay que saber en la Cumbre RabbitMQ de 2021.

En julio de 2021, se introdujeron streams a RabbitMQ, utilizando un nuevo protocolo extremadamente rápido que se puede utilizar junto con AMQP 0.9.1. Los [streams](https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/rabbitmq-quorum-queues-explaine … ⌘ Read more

This time I’m doing my commute (to my second flat) with this new 70L travel backpack from Decathlon. It’s already full with just my work stuff (notebook, keyboard, mouse) and some other stuff (personal notebook, smaller backpack, toiletries, 2L water bottle). How am I supposed to fit 14 days of vacation stuff in there? 🤔 Good that I can take a vacation without having to take the work stuff with me. 😅 ⌘ Read more

Highlights from Git 2.40
The first Git release of the year is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.40. ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: We are defending the Public Domain at @WIPO #SCCR43 this week.
Read our statement on the protection of broadcasting organisations delivered by @tenobre on our blog:
https://communia-association.org/2023/03/13/sccr-43-communia-statement-on-the-protection-of-broadcasting-organisations/
We are defending the Public Domain at @WIPO #SCCR43 this week.

Read our statement on th … ⌘ Read more

An open source project to empower OSPOs everywhere
We are open sourcing our own OSPO policies, tools, and guides to help other OSPOs get started. ⌘ Read more

Introducing Activating Developers and the new Digital Public Goods Open Source Community Manager Program
The Social Impact, Tech for Social Good team is launching a new Open Source Community Manager Program to support digital public goods. This is part of their new Activating Developers initiative. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, Aztec New Year (Belated) https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/13/aztec.html #programming #project #devjournal

RT by @mind_booster: If the publishers win, global readers lose 🌐 Find out what our digital lending library means to patrons all over the world, from a researcher in Romania to an educator in Pakistan: http://blog.archive.org/2022/01/12/international-patrons-speak-out/ href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23EmpoweringLibraries”>#EmpoweringLibraries**
If the publishers win, global readers lose 🌐 Find out what our digital lending library means to patrons all over the world, from a researcher in Romania to an educator in Pakistan: [blog.archive.org/2022/01/12/…](http: … ⌘ Read more

Sunset view from the hill next to our flat. 🌇 ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Golem, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/11/golem-2.html #freeculture #bookclub

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 03/06 to 03/10 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/10/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

Introducing GitHub vulnerability management integrations for security professionals
Learn about using GitHub Advanced Security alerts with vulnerability management tools. Check out the integrations and learn about how to get started. ⌘ Read more

Don’t leave developers behind in the Section 230 debate
Developers are at the heart of our online world and at the forefront of creating solutions for global challenges, working to make the software that underpins our digital infrastructure more secure, reliable, and safe. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Q Who? https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/09/q-who.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

How GitHub accelerates development for embedded systems
In a world where software and hardware is ubiquitous, GitHub can help enable secure development for mission-critical embedded systems. ⌘ Read more

Raising the bar for software security: GitHub 2FA begins March 13
On March 13, we will officially begin rolling out our initiative to require all developers who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of 2023. Read on to learn about what the process entails and how you can help secure the software supply chain with 2FA. ⌘ Read more