Develop Your Cloud App Locally with the LocalStack Extension
Learn how to use the LocalStack Docker Extension to emulate a cloud service locally with Docker Desktop. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, A Matter of Honor https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/12/matter-honor.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
A smarter, quieter Dependabot
Dependabot is getting a little smarter—and, a little quieter—by reducing bot-based noise from repositories based on your interaction with Dependabot. ⌘ Read more
Docker Desktop 4.16: Better Performance and Docker Extensions GA
We’re kicking off the new year with exciting Docker Extensions news and improved performance in Docker Desktop 4.16. ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Building a Remote Control Car from Scratch Using Elixir
IntroductionElixir is undoubtedly one of the most comprehensive full stack languages available, offering battle-tested reliability and fault-tolerance on the backend. This is thanks to its origins in Erlang, the BEAM VM and OTP, powerful and agile frontend development thanks to LiveView and the ability to write to hardware with Nerves (not to mention the exciting developments happening in the mac … ⌘ Read more
Probably preaching to the choir… ⌘ Read more
I had an AWS training in November and have the opportunity to get the “Certified Developer Associate” certificate. Even though I have two attempts, I want to do well on the first shot. Since the trainer didn’t show us everything that is required for the exam, I’m kind of re-doing the training with this Udemy course (luckily I have access to Udemy Business and don’t have to pay for it). It’s really helpful because it helps me demystify the AWS cloud and reduce the 🤯 whenever I do something in the AWS console. ⌘ Read more
Passwordless deployments to the cloud
Discovering passwords in our codebase is probably one of our worst fears. But what if you didn’t need passwords at all, and could deploy to your cloud provider another way? In this post, we explore how you can use OpenID Connect to trust your cloud provider, enabling you to deploy easily, securely and safely, while minimizing the operational overhead associated with secrets (for example, key rotations). ⌘ Read more
Introducing required workflows and configuration variables to GitHub Actions
Now, you can standardize and enforce CI/CD best practices across all repositories in your organization to reduce duplication and secure your DevOps processes. ⌘ Read more
お知らせ：JPCERT/CC Eyes「Malware Analysis Operations（MAOps）の自動化」 ⌘ Read more
GitHub Discussions just got better with Category Forms!
Category Forms allow maintainers to create templates for their GitHub Discussions, which means that users can start new discussions with all the necessary information already included. ⌘ Read more
Default setup: A new way to enable GitHub code scanning
Default setup is a new way to automatically set up code scanning on your repository, without the use of a .yaml file. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, Hōonkō https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/09/hoonko.html #programming #project #devjournal
Nice to see that there is such a variety of MicroPub clients, next to Quill, Micropublish and the mobile app Indigenous, there’s also sparkles. But on the desktop, I mostly just use GoBlog’s editor nowadays. It has live sync and and a live preview, which is sometimes very helpful. But flexibility is the key, use what fits you and the situation the best. ⌘ Read more
My first Freeletics week
My first Freeletics week is complete. And I got a badge for the first “perfect week”. I hope this gamification (levels and badges for perfect weeks, perfect week streaks, training session milestones etc.) will make me pull through. My girl friend also joined me and started using Freeletics. 🤓 ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Life Blood, chapters 4 – 5 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/07/life-blood-2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 01/02 to 01/06 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/06/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Unnatural Selection https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/05/unnatural-selection.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
GitHub Availability Report: December 2022
In December, we did not experience any incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report sheds light into an incident that impacted customers using GitHub Packages and GitHub Pages in November. ⌘ Read more
I bought a full year of access to the Freeletics coach, so I should actually start doing my workout, right? 🙃 I can already feel the soreness just thinking about it… ⌘ Read more
My 2022 in Review
2022 is over, welcome 2023! A year full of unexpected events, many personal changes and a lot of new experiences… But since I wrote a review every month, I just want to highlight the highlights here. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, National Science Fiction Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/02/scifi.html #programming #project #devjournal
RT by @mind_booster: Já está publicada a lista de autores portugueses que entram hoje em #DomínioPúblico. Podem consultar aqui https://blog.wikimedia.pt/2023/01/01/dia-do-dominio-publico-2022-2/
No dia 6 de janeiro, há um evento organizado pela @wikimediapt Biblioteca Nacional e @ANSOL Link no mesmo site. Se puderem, partilhem!
href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23PublicDomain”>#PublicDomain**
Já está publicada a lista de autores portugueses que entram hoje em #DomínioPúblico. Podem consultar aqui [blog.wikimedi … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: 🍾 Happy Calendar-Changing Day, 2023 🎆 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/01/hny2023.html #holiday #newyear
**RT by @mind_booster: As of today, most published works from 1927 have entered the public domain in the US! Celebrate with us on Jan 19 & 20: http://blog.archive.org/2022/11/30/the-best-things-in-life-are-free-two-ways-to-celebrate-public-domain-day-in-2023/
Welcome to the #PublicDomain:
🎞️ The Beloved Rogue, starring John Barrymore
https://archive.org/details/TheBelovedRogue**
As of today, most published works from 1927 have entered the public domain in the US! Celebrate with us on Jan 19 & 20: [blog.arc … ⌘ Read more
Happy new year! 🎆 ⌘ Read more
blog: closing out the new year with reflections and resolutions
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Life Blood, chapters 1 – 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/31/life-blood-1.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Tweets from 12/26 to 12/30 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/30/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
My December ‘22 in Review
Now the last month of the year is coming to an end and before I put together a short review of the year soon, here’s another monthly review. ⌘ Read more
My December ‘22 in Review
Now the last month of the year is coming to an end and before I put together a short review of the year soon, here’s another monthly review. ⌘ Read more
My December ‘22 in Review
Now the last month of the year is coming to an end and before I put together a short review of the year soon, here’s another monthly review. ⌘ Read more
GitHub and the Ekoparty 2022 Capture the Flag
Learn about the design behind, and solutions to, several of GitHub’s CTF challenge for Ekoparty’s 2022 event! ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Schizoid Man https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/29/schizoid-man.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
GitHub’s top 10 blog posts of 2022
As the year winds down, we’re highlighting some of the incredible work from GitHub’s engineers, product teams, and security researchers. ⌘ Read more
December 2022 Newsletter ⌘ Read more
Bitwarden Unified
Bitwarden (my favorite and recommended password manager) is offering a “new deployment option”. This new option combines all microservices into a single Docker container and doesn’t require 11 different containers anymore. And it supports PostgreSQL and MariaDB in addition to MS SQL. ⌘ Read more
Achievement for today: I can finally correctly reply to Mastodon/Fediverse/ActivityPub posts. 🥳 ⌘ Read more
Achievement for today: I can finally correctly reply to Mastodon/Fediverse/ActivityPub posts. 🥳 ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Journal, Boxing Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/26/boxing.html #programming #project #devjournal
お知らせ：JPCERT/CC Eyes「世界のCSIRTから ～エチオピア、ルワンダ～」 ⌘ Read more
Just setting up a quick Mastodon instance to test some compatibility is a pain. Using test accounts on public instances is also unreliable, because many instances are already overloaded and I don’t want to create spam. So I got a new DigitalOcean account with a $200 starter credit… ⌘ Read more
On my blog: 🔭 Looking Back on 2022 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/25/review-2022.html #retrospective #newyear
The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time. Zeno’s Paradox and Why Modern Technology is Rubbish – Terence Eden’s Blog
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Quantum Flux https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/24/quantum-flux.html #freeculture #bookclub
Ignite Realtime Blog: Help us translate Spark and Openfire!
We have started to experiment with an online tool that facilitates the process of translating Spark and Openfire. Both already have a bunch of translations, but none are complete.
I’m looking for people wanting to test the tool and/or provide translations. The aim is to make providing translations become so easy that little technological know-how is required.
If you’re interested, please sign up to [Ignite Realtime localizati … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Tweets from 12/19 to 12/23 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/23/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
What’s with all the ducks?
What in the world do rubber ducks have to do with programming? And why were they everywhere at GitHub Universe? A lot of you asked, so I’m here to help explain. ⌘ Read more
Oof, LastPass suffered a major breach
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Loud As A Whisper https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/22/loud-as-whisper.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
How to create a keyboard shortcut to export the current slide in Keynote
Lately I’ve been using Apple Keynote to create graphics for using in videos and blog posts. It’s a quick way to arrange things on a page, copying and pasting most things just works, and there are enough built in shapes and tools to get the point across. However, after spending a full day creating graphics for a video, I found myself frustrated by the number of clicks required to export a single slide at a time. ⌘ Read more
December Extensions Roundup: Improving Visibility for Your APIs and Images
Check out the new Akita and Dive-In Docker Extensions released in December. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Gives 2022: Creating positive, lasting contributions in our communities
This year, we took GitHub Gives, our company-wide giving campaign, to new heights and wanted to share our learnings to provide best practices in programming a successful hybrid giving campaign for employees. ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: New Mastodon service for the Ignite Realtime community!
Some of you might already have followed along with the discussion on this in the open_chat chatroom, but: the Ignite Realtime community now has its own Mastodon service at toot.igniterealtime.org! This service is graciously sponsored by Free Solutions Sàrl - a big thank you to Claude and his team!
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WordPress implemented SQLite support! 😱 (Not merged into Core yet, but you’re able to test it.) ⌘ Read more
Increase developer productivity, save time on developer onboarding, and drive ROI in 2023
Forrester’s Total Economic Impact™ study dives into how GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security help businesses drive ROI, increase developer productivity, and save time on developer onboarding. ⌘ Read more
How we use GitHub to be more productive, collaborative, and secure
Our engineering and security teams have done some incredible work in 2022. Let’s take a look at how we use GitHub to be more productive, build collaboratively, and shift security left. ⌘ Read more
Reduce Your Image Size with the Dive-In Docker Extension
Use the Dive-In Docker Extension to see how to reduce image size in an easy-to-use UI. ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Busy Year in 2022
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as in Freedom; Sha … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Busy Year in 2022
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as in Freedom; Sha … ⌘ Read more
[Video] How has open source changed in the last 10 years?
What’s the state of open source and how has it changed over the last decade? GitHub’s VP of Developer Relations, Martin Woodward, tackles that question and more in a 2022 keynote. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Journal, International Human Solidarity Eve https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/19/solidarity.html #programming #project #devjournal
Erlang Solutions: GraphQL interfaces in MongooseIM 6.0
MongooseIM is a robust, scalable and highly extensible instant messaging server. Recent releases have improved its configurability and opened new use cases, and the latest version 6.0 continues that trend. By introducing the brand new GraphQL API, we made MongooseIM much easier to integrate with external web services. The entry barrier is also lower than ever because of the automatically generated API documentation, interactive web UI, an … ⌘ Read more
TIL: gwern has met Jürgen Habermas in person: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DXcezGmnBcAYL2Y2u/yes-a-blog?commentId=nhpQK5787tMoaYDWp
I have a question: Is there something similar to Telegram channels in Matrix? What should I do when I want to enable people to be notified about new blog posts using Matrix? ⌘ Read more
“AirTags Expose Dodgy Postal Industry”
Last year, YouTuber MegaLag tried to send several AirTag-ged packages from Germany to North Korea with DHL. But instead of arriving there, they were either misrouted to South Korea or ended up in China. In a new video, he further researches the reasons and also takes a look at DHL’s sorting center in Frankfurt at their invitation. Very interesting! ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — R. James Gavreau https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/17/rjg.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Tweets from 12/12 to 12/16 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/16/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Release Radar · November 2022 Edition
We promised we’d be back soon and here we are! There has been an incredible amount of open source projects shipping major version releases before the year wraps up. I can’t believe we are all saying that now. “When the year wraps up!” or “See you next year!” What happened to 2022? Well, we know […] ⌘ Read more
Configure, Manage, and Simplify Your Observability Data Pipelines with the Calyptia Core Docker Extension
Find out how to use the Calyptia Core Docker Extension to build and manage observability pipelines in Docker Desktop. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Outrageous Okona https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/15/outrageous-okona.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Bunny AI
Bunny.net joined the AI hype and created “Bunny AI” (docs), AI images created on the edge. I tried it out, because it’s currently free during the preview, but somehow I don’t find the generated images aesthetic or I’m just to stupid to write better prompts. I guess the Bunny developers also need some distraction from time to time, because they are working hard on S3 support for Bunny Storage for years already. 🐰 ⌘ Read more
My website is powered by GoBlog, a simple and dynamic blogging system that’s open source, actively developed and implements most IndieWeb functionalities. It packages everything in a single binary and I’ve been so over the moon using it and seeing it improve week after week that I’m surprised it isn’t more popular. So I put on my evangelist boots to share how I use this “stupidly-simple” blogging system to power my online presence. ⌘ Read more
Forgejo
A few weeks ago, it came to light that Gitea has been owned by a for-profit Gitea Ltd. for several months. The lack of transparency has disturbed the trust of many contributors and users. That’s why Codeberg (a German based non-profit association - disclaimer: I am a member of the association) has now started a soft fork: Forgejo. ⌘ Read more
Leaked a secret? Check your GitHub alerts…for free
GitHub now allows you to track any leaked secrets in your public repository, for free. With secret scanning alerts, you can track and action on leaked secrets directly within GitHub. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Advanced Security customers can now push protect their custom patterns
With just one click, admins in GitHub Advanced Security organizations can protect their custom patterns on push. ⌘ Read more
I should write better tests or at least create some automatic tests. 😬 (But ActivityPub is so complicated to test!) ⌘ Read more
Should I sell my PC?
I’m not sure yet what I’m going to do with my desktop computer (ASRock Deskmini A300), which I don’t really use anymore since I got my new laptop. ⌘ Read more
I think it was a very wise decision to buy some long merino underwear, a new and warmer jacket and new winter shoes. It’s so cold! The whole week already under 0°C. ⌘ Read more
Raising the bar for software security: next steps for GitHub.com 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. Learn more about our approach, when we’ll begin our rollout, and what you can expect as we begin requiring 2FA. ⌘ Read more
I’m honestly thinking about switching browsers, because this “new feature” where Firefox always downloads PDFs first to display them is annoying me so much. I don’t want my Downloads folder to be cluttered with all those random PDFs. If I open a restaurant’s menu PDF, I just want to take a quick look, but don’t want to have the PDF in my Downloads folder until I manually delete it and then delete it from the Recycle Bin again. There are some work-arounds, but no real solution. ⌘ Read more
Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.12.2 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.
This is a regularly delayed release containing a number of fixes for
issues that we have come across since the last release of the 0.12
series.
A summary of changes in this release:
Fixes and improvementsCreating an accessible search experience with the QueryBuilder component
GitHub’s search inputs have several complex accessibility considerations. Let’s dive into what those are, how we addressed them, and talk about the standalone, reusable component that was ultimately built. ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Change data capture with Postgres & Elixir
CDC is the process of identifying and capturing data changes from the database.
With CDC, changes to data can be tracked in near real-time, and that information can be used to support a variety of use cases, including auditing, replication, and synchronisation.
A good example of a use case for CDC is to consider an application which inserts a record into the database and pushes an event to a message queue after the record has … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Spark 3.0.1 Released
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the release of Spark 3.0.1 version.
This release contains mostly fixes. macOS now uses the default FlatLaf LaF. The user can also choose the type of tabs “scroll” as in Spark 3.0.0 or “wrap” as in Spark 2.X. See screenshot below. And also for some users, Spark not saved history.
… ⌘ Read more
Highlights from Git 2.39
Another new release of Git is here to end the year! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.39. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Journal, Kanji Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/12/kanji.html #programming #project #devjournal
Snikket: F-Droid security update
Last week, Snikket Android users who installed the Snikket app via F-Droid
started receiving a warning that it contained a
security vulnerability. This wasn’t entirely accurate, as the problem wasn’t
with the Snikket app itself but specifically F-Droid’s own build of the app
that was using an outdated version of the WebRTC library.
Like many communication apps, Snikket uses WebRTC for audio and video calls.
We’ve been working on finding a … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Colossal Cave Adventure https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/10/colossal-cave.html #freeculture #bookclub
I use Firefox as my preferred web browser both on PCs and my phone. One extension is always installed: uBlock Origin. The web is so much nicer with all the ads and tracking removed. But today I also retried an extension that will probably join the “must install” list: DarkReader. Especially when I’m browsing the web on my phone in the early morning, I don’t like to be blinded by white websites. Since March DarkReader has finally an option to detect if a website already has a dark theme and only apply it’s color chan … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Tweets from 12/05 to 12/09 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/09/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Release Radar · October 2022 Edition
Before you say it, yes, the October Release Radar was supposed to be shared in November. But with Hackatoberfest, GitHub Universe, Turkey Day, and in real life (IRL) conferences returning to their pre-COVID frequency, we’ve all been so busy. And our community has been hustling to ship all kinds of open source projects. We wanted […] ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Elementary, Dear Data https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/08/dear-data.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Experiment: The hidden costs of waiting on slow build times
How much does it really cost to buy more powerful cloud compute resources for development work? A lot less than you think. ⌘ Read more
Git Commit Uruguay: Lowering barriers to make software development more inclusive and diverse
We delivered two different courses specifically designed to help students in the lowest-income neighborhood of Montevideo, Uruguay learn how to use GitHub and understand the value of open source. ⌘ Read more
Hello from GitHub’s new Chief Product Officer
GitHub is in an exciting phase of our journey as the developer community grows significantly every day, and the needs of the community grow and change with it. Today we’re introducing our new Chief Product officer. ⌘ Read more
Implement User Authentication Into Your Web Application Using SuperTokens
Find out how to set up SuperTokens, an open source authentication solution, using its Docker Extension. ⌘ Read more
Snikket: Notes on the F-Droid security warning
Snikket Android users who installed the app via F-Droid may receive a warning
from F-Droid telling them that the app has a vulnerability and that they
“recommend uninstalling immediately”. First of all - don’t panic! This is a
over-simplified generic warning that is scary, but the actual situation is
not quite so scary and has an explanation. Here goes…
When an app is developed and ready for release, it must be compiled and built,
to produce the fina … ⌘ Read more