GitHub Copilot is generally available for businesses
GitHub Copilot for Business is officially here with simple license management, organization-wide policy controls, and industry-leading privacy—all for $19 USD per user per month. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Availability Report: November 2022
In November, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted Codespaces in October. ⌘ Read more
Thinking about chat apps again…
Lately, I’ve been thinking about chat apps more often again. Actually, I’ve always been a fan of Telegram, and it’s still a good messenger, but I’m a bit suspicious about the latest developments (such as the Fragment platform, with which Telegram is now implementing its crypto plans again). ⌘ Read more
New npm features for secure publishing and safe consumption
Now you can create tokens with fine-grained permissions for automating your publishing and organization management workflows. And a new code explorer allows you to view content of a package directly in the npm portal. ⌘ Read more
ICYMI: A look back at GitHub Universe 2022
Catch up on everything we announced and see what else happened during this year’s GitHub Universe conference that took place November 9-10. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Journal, Repeal Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/05/repeal.html #programming #project #devjournal
Near my new home. 🍂 ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Pejoratives and Specificity https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/04/specificity.html #blog #harm #rant #terminology
GPT-3 is crazy 🤯
Do you want to read why Go is a great programming language? ⌘ Read more
GPT-3 is crazy 🤯
Do you want to read why Go is a great programming language? ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Denial of Service Vulnerability in Smack 4.4 if XMPPTCPConnection is used with StAX
The fantastic folks behind Jitsi have discovered a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in Smack ( JSA-2022-0002, [JSA-2022-0003](https://github.com/jitsi/security-advisories/blob/master/advisories/JSA-2022-00 … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Superflu https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/03/superflu.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Tweets from 11/28 to 12/02 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/02/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
GitHub, accessibility, and the disability divide
We just published our vision for GitHub accessibility at accessibility.github.com. Here’s the TL;DR: the prime directive of the GitHub accessibility program is to empower people with disabilities to build cool technology. ⌘ Read more
Introducing Mona Sans and Hubot Sans
Learn how to use and express yourself with GitHub’s open source variable fonts, Mona Sans and Hubot Sans. ⌘ Read more
How to Monitor Container Memory and CPU Usage in Docker Desktop
Find out how to track the CPU, memory, network, and disk usage of docker containers and docker compose projects using the Resource Usage Docker Extension. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Where Silence Has Lease https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/01/silence-lease.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
How empowering developers helps teams ship secure software faster
AppSec expert Niroshan Rajadurai says putting developers at the center of everything will enable you to meet your security goals. ⌘ Read more
My November ‘22 in Review
November is now over and it’s December and the Christmas season begins. But first a short review of November… ⌘ Read more
An enterprise account is coming to all Enterprise customers
Administrators, or enterprise owners, have the increased responsibility of managing their account and keeping it secure. We are excited to introduce what is new with enterprise accounts and what is coming soon. ⌘ Read more
New in Docker Desktop 4.15: Improving Usability and Performance for Easier Builds
Docker Desktop 4.15 is here, packed with usability upgrades to help you find the images you want, manage your containers, discover vulnerabilities, and more. ⌘ Read more
Find and Fix Vulnerabilities Faster Now that Docker’s a CNA
Docker is now officially a CNA under MITRE, which means you should get better notifications and documentation when we publish a vulnerability. ⌘ Read more
NixOS 22.11 released
Hey everyone, we are Martin Weinelt and Janne Heß,
the release managers for this stable release and we are very proud to announce the public availability of NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon”.
This release will receive bugfixes and security updates for seven months (up until 2023-06-30).
… ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Advent of Code 2022 – Every Puzzle Solved in Erlang
Day 1Christmas is getting closer and with that, the annual Advent of Code begins. For those who do not know, Advent of Code is a fun and inclusive event which provides a new programming puzzle every day. The fun is that these puzzles can be solved in any programming language and are accessible for varying levels of coding experience and skills. The real test is in your problem-solving. This year, we’ll be solving each of the problems in … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: RabbitMQ – An Amazing Message Broker
In cloud architectures (or microservices), applications are broken down into smaller independent blocks that can be quickly developed, deployed, and maintained. Imagine you have a cloud architecture that has many services and many requests per second, you have to make sure that no requests are lost and your web service is always ready to receive new requests instead of locked by processing the previous request and must ensure that the servi … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Writing a Chat Client from Scratch
There are a lot of things that go into building a chat system, such as client, server, and protocol. Even for only making a client there are lots of areas of focus, such as user experience, features, and performance. To keep this post a manageable size, we will just be building a client and will use an existing server and protocol (accessing Jabber network services using the XMPP protocol). We’ll make a practical GUI so we can test things, but not spend too much time on p … ⌘ Read more
November 2022 Newsletter ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: HTTP File Upload plugin 1.2.0 released
We have now released version 1.2.0 of the HTTP File Upload plugin!
This plugin adds functionality to Openfire that allows clients to share files, as defined in the XEP-0363 ‘HTTP File Upload’ specification.
This release primarily enhances functionality when running in an Openfire cluster. All changes can be reviewed in [the changelog for this release](https://www.igniterealtime. … ⌘ Read more
November Extensions Roundup: Kubernetes Observability, API Testing, and More
Find out what’s new this month in the Docker Extension Marketplace! ⌘ Read more
To infinity and beyond: enabling the future of GitHub’s REST API with API versioning
We’re introducing calendar-based versioning for our REST API, so we can keep evolving our API, whilst still giving integrators a smooth migration path and plenty of time to update their integrations. ⌘ Read more
Prosodical Thoughts: Bringing FASTer authentication to Prosody and XMPP
As our work continues on modernizing XMPP authentication,
we have some more new milestones to share with you. Until now our work has
mostly been focused on internal Prosody improvements, such as the new roles\
and permissions framework. Now we are starting to extend our
work to the actual client-to-server protocol in XMPP.
Prosody and [Snikket](https://snik … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Journal, Lā Kūʻokoʻa https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/11/28/kalahui.html #programming #project #devjournal
DeepL Write
I’m a big fan of DeepL for translations. Before trying to write more blog posts directly in English to improve my skills, I wrote many blog posts in German and then translated them. The texts were probably better than my non-native English. ⌘ Read more
“Bloggers, Dump Your Twitter Card Tags”
It’s crazy to think how much bandwidth is being used by metadata tags. Every company wants to invent it’s own new system. Wouter Groeneveld gives a brief overview and recommends getting rid of them (for the most part). I agree with him completely. The only one of these systems that my blog supports is Microformats, which is quite popular among the IndieWeb community. ⌘ Read more
My websites have finally favicons again. And I can update them using a simple web interface. 😄 ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Things That Worked (and Didn’t Work) in 2022 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/11/27/worked.html #advice #rant
Sideloading Android apps on Windows 11
It’s really impressive how easy it is to sideload apps on the WSA (Windows Subsystem for Android). ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Redmine, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/11/26/redmine-2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Tweets from 11/21 to 11/25 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/11/25/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Child https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/11/24/child.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Jérôme Poisson: Libervia progress note 2022-W45
Hello, it’s time for a long overdue progress note.
I’ll talk here about the work made on ActivityPub (AP) gateway and on end-to-end encryption around pubsub.
Oh, and if everything goes well, this blog post should be accessible from XMPP and ActivityPub (and HTTP and ATOM feed), using the same identifier goffi@goffi.org.
The work made on the AP gateway has been possible thanks to a NLnet/NGI0 grant (w … ⌘ Read more
I reworked the current ActivityPub implementation of GoBlog, fixed ActivityPub replies to posts and also added support for reply updates and deletions. Under the hood it’s using the comment system. 🥳 Using the go-ap/activitypub library, working with ActivityPub is much easier (but still more complicated than I wish it would be). ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire Monitoring Service plugin 2.4.0 release
Earlier today, we have released version 2.4.0 of the Openfire Monitoring Service plugin. This plugin adds both statistics, as well as message archiving functionality to Openfire.
In this release, compatibility with future versions of Openfire is added. A bug that affects MSSQL users has been fixed, and the dreaded “Unable to save XML properties” error message has been resolved. A few other minor tweaks h … ⌘ Read more
Exciting New GitHub Features Powering Machine Learning
Discover the exciting enhancements in GitHub that empower Machine Learning practitioners to do more. ⌘ Read more
Enable Cloud-Native Log Observability With Parseable
Traditionally, logs are text heavy and relatively difficult to visualize or observe. Learn how Parseable displays rich, clear log data within Docker Desktop — helping you manage data more easily. ⌘ Read more
In reply to: chreke’s blog - Little Languages Are The Future Of Programming
The idea is that as you start to find patterns in your application, you can encode them in a little language—this language would then allow you to express these patterns in a more compact manner than would be possible by other means of abstraction. Not only could this buck the trend of ever-growing applications, it would … ⌘ Read more
Today was already the 4th day that I worked using a mobile hotspot with a speed limit of 10 mbps down and upload. This is definitely doable. I’m glad I didn’t have to transfer any larger files. Faster internet is coming in two days. But I chose wisely when I signed my mobile contract last year without a data cap. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Journal, Mayflower Compact https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/11/21/mayflower.html #programming #project #devjournal
How Rapid7 Reduced Setup Time From Days to Minutes With Docker
Learn how Rapid7 — a security analytics and automations provider — used Docker to streamline developer onboarding through containerization. ⌘ Read more
Octoverse 2022: 10 years of tracking open source
How is open source changing the world and impacting businesses? In this year’s Octoverse report, we identified three big trends to watch. ⌘ Read more
Automate API Tests and Debug in Docker With Postman’s Newman Extension
Postman’s Newman Docker Extension helps you run, test, debug, and visualize Postman API calls. Learn how to use this powerful new extension and run collections in Docker Desktop. ⌘ Read more
Moving to another city
As I’ve probably written many times before (have I?), I’m currently moving with my girlfriend to her university town. I will keep my old apartment as a second home. But it’s still my first move to another city and I’m just realizing it. ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd turns 20
ejabberd is a piece of software that was born 20 years ago. This is a long time, even at the scale of Internet. And yet, what ejabberd represents has not always been obvious. It took us a long time to realize what was so important about ejabberd. Why have we been developing it for 20 years? Why are we pushing it further even today? What makes it so special?
ejabberd is a scalable messaging server. That sum … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd turns 20
ejabberd is a piece of software that was born 20 years ago. This is a long time, even at the scale of Internet. And yet, what ejabberd represents has not always been obvious. It took us a long time to realize what was so important about ejabberd. Why have we been developing it for 20 years? Why are we pushing it further even today? What makes it so special?
ejabberd is a scalable messaging server. That sums it all and that does not do justice to this critical piece of the Internet infr … ⌘ Read more
The power of GitHub in the palm of your hand
GitHub Mobile helps keep work going while you’re going. Untether yourself from your office. ⌘ Read more
A better way to search, navigate, and understand code on GitHub
Reading code is a hugely important task for developers. That’s why we built GitHub’s new code search—to help developers search, navigate, and understand code written by them, their team, and the world. ⌘ Read more
The journey of your work has never been clearer
In July, we launched the general availability of GitHub Projects, and now we are excited to bring you even more features designed to make it easier to plan and track in the same place you build! ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Spark 3.0.0 Released
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the release of Spark 3.0.0 version.
We decided to increase major version to 3.x to coincide with a complete UI refresh of Spark which was contributed by Amos. Now Spark uses only FlatLaf Look and Feel. We are very much grateful for his incredible work. Along that Pade Meetings plugin was added by [Dele](https://discourse.igniterealtime. … ⌘ Read more
The AT Protocol ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/6AM
The AT Protocol ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/6AM
Why I bought a new laptop 💻
I just updated my Hardware Uses page. Recently, I bought a new notebook and today I reset my Surface Go and sent it to a trade-in portal. ⌘ Read more
Although there are definitely reasons to hate Windows, there are also reasons to like Windows 11: Linux GUI apps, Android apps, winget package manager and improved window tiling. It would be even better, when one wouldn’t need to toogle all the privacy and telemety settings first… ⌘ Read more
Dino: Stateless File Sharing: Source Attachment and Wrap-Up
RecapStateless file sharing (sfs) is a generic file sharing message which, alongside metadata, sends a list of sources where the file can be retrieved from.
It is generic in the sense, that sources can be from different kinds of file transfer methods.
HTTP, Jingle and any other file transfers can be encapsulated with it.
The big idea is that functionality can be implemented for all file transfer methods at once, thanks to … ⌘ Read more
Introducing GitHub Actions Importer
GitHub Actions Importer helps you forecast, plan, and facilitate migrations from your current CI/CD tool to GitHub Actions. ⌘ Read more
New in Docker Desktop 4.14: Greater Visibility Into Your Containers
Docker Desktop 4.14 brings new functionality directly into your workstations, specifically focused on providing better visibility into your container’s productivity and security. ⌘ Read more
What’s new with Codespaces from GitHub Universe 2022
We’re giving GitHub users 60 free hours each month on Codespaces. Learn what else we shipped for Codespaces at Universe this year. ⌘ Read more
Atom vs. RSS: https://mckinley.cc/blog/20221109.html
cc @movq@www.uninformativ.de @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @nmke-de@yarn.zn80.net
It only took me 5 days :)
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.4 release
The Ignite Realtime Community is happy to announce the 4.7.4 release of Openfire. This release fixes a number of bugs and represents our effort to provide a stable 4.7.x series while work continues on the next feature release of Openfire.
Notable fixes include enhancements to cluster-specific implementation of Multi-User Chat functionality, improved websocket handling and improv … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Hazelcast plugin version 2.6.1 released!
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of version 2.6.1 of the Hazelcast plugin for Openfire! The Hazelcast plugin is what allows you to deploy Openfire as a clustered solution.
This release includes only one improvement, but that one can bring a significant performance improvement as compared to older versions … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.10.1 released!
We are happy to announce the immediate availability of version 1.10.1 of the REST API plugin for Openfire!
This is a bugfix release, that will improve the endpoints that make modifications to MUC rooms.
The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternatively, you can download the plugin directly, from [the plugin’s archive page](https:// … ⌘ Read more
Todas as novidades do GitHub Universe 2022
Veja o que estamos construindo para aprimorar a plataforma de desenvolvimento mais integrada e que permite que pessoas desenvolvedoras e empresas impulsionem a inovação com mais facilidade. Quinze anos atrás, estava sendo escrita a primeira linha de código para a construção do GitHub. Desde então, o objetivo tem sido equipar as pessoas desenvolvedoras com tudo […] ⌘ Read more
An open source economy–built by developers, for developers
Investing in our open source future by supporting the maintainers of today. ⌘ Read more
Everything new from GitHub Universe 2022
See what we’re building to enhance the most integrated developer platform that allows developers and enterprises to drive innovation with ease. ⌘ Read more
Understanding the social impact of open source technologies
Here’s how nonprofits and the social sector are using open source to drive social good. ⌘ Read more
The changing nature of governmental policies around open source
In 2022, governments and the policy community spent a lot of time thinking about open source. Here’s what that means and why it matters. ⌘ Read more
Why more companies are investing in open source program offices
By our estimation at GitHub, over 30% of Fortune 100 companies have now implemented OSPOs. Here’s what that means for open source. ⌘ Read more
The importance of improving supply chain security in open source
We think a lot about a high-profile supply chain attack that might cause developers, teams, and organizations to lose trust in open source. That’s why we’re investing in new ways to protect the open source ecosystem. ⌘ Read more
Bringing greater financial sustainability to open source communities
We know that companies benefit from open source. That’s why we’re making it easier for companies to financially support projects. ⌘ Read more
One simple thing to noticeably reduce the router’s power consumption: turn off 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi. Meanwhile, almost every device supports 5 GHz. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.7 is now generally available
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.7 is available now, including a single view of code risk, new forking and repository policies, and security enhancements to the management console. ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: Matrix protocol added to ejabberd
ejabberd is already the most versatile and scalable messaging server. In this post, we are giving a sneak peak at what is coming next.
ejabberd just get new ace in it sleeve – you can now use ejabberd to talk with other Matrix servers, a protocol sometimes used for small corporate server messaging.
Of course, you all know ejabberd supports the XMPP instant messaging protocol with hundreds of XMPP extensions, this is what it is famous for.
The second ma … ⌘ Read more
How to mitigate OWASP vulnerabilities while staying in the flow
Explore how GitHub Advanced Security can help address several of the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities ⌘ Read more
After three days of AWS Developer training, I am fascinated about all the AWS products and features. But I also think that AWS has a huge lock-in power. Once you moved everything to the Amazon cloud, it will probably be very hard to get out of it again. And then prices will increase and you have a problem. 🙃 ⌘ Read more
Advocating for developers to the US Copyright Office
How GitHub advocated for developer interests at the US Copyright Office technical measures consultations ⌘ Read more
Build, Share, and Run WebAssembly Apps Using Docker
Did you know Wasm and Docker can work together? Learn more about creating WebAssembly apps with Docker in this exciting demo breakdown. ⌘ Read more
How GitHub converts previously encrypted and unencrypted columns to ActiveRecord encrypted columns
This post is the second part in a series about ActiveRecord::Encryption that shows how GitHub upgrades previously encrypted and unencrypted columns to ActiveRecord::Encryption. ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: New Cheogram Android Release, Chatwoot Instance
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 … ⌘ Read more
GitHub partners with Arm to revolutionize Internet of Things software development with GitHub Actions
Developers creating Internet of Things software use a complex stack of software that needs to be custom built into their CI/CD platform. Arm is leveraging the simplicity and scalability of GitHub Actions with a native integration that will revolutionize IoT software development. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Availability Report: October 2022
In October, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted Codespaces in September. ⌘ Read more
Developing Go Apps With Docker
Develop Go applications with Docker using these containerization steps, best practices, optimization tips, and more. ⌘ Read more
Game Off 2022 theme announcement
It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Are you ready? ⌘ Read more
Preview: referencing public code in GitHub Copilot
We will begin to introduce several new capabilities to GitHub Copilot in 2023 to continue delivering responsible innovation and true happiness at the keyboard. ⌘ Read more
All In for Students: expanding the next generation of open source leaders
We are pleased to announce the expansion of All In for Students! All In for Students introduces college students to open source and provides them with the education, technical training and career development to prepare them for a summer internship in tech. ⌘ Read more
blog: built a little podcast feed reader; also eureka is v1.0.0 finally!
Creating a more inclusive security research field
A glimpse into the backgrounds and day-to-day work of several GitHub employees in cybersecurity roles. ⌘ Read more
Announcing Docker Hub OCI Artifacts Support
We’re excited to announce that Docker Hub can now help you distribute any type of application artifact! You can now keep everything in one place without having to leverage multiple registries. Before today, you could only use Docker Hub to store and distribute container images — or artifacts usable by container runtimes. This became a […] ⌘ Read more
SourceHut is banning cryptocurrency projects
SourceHut, a source code hosting service, is banning cryptocurrency- and blockchain-projects: ⌘ Read more
My October ‘22 in Review
Another month is over and Happy Halloween! 🎃 ⌘ Read more
JMP: SMS Account Verification
Some apps and services (but not JMP!) require an SMS verification code in order to create a new account. (Note that this is different from using SMS for authentication; which is a bad idea since SMS can be easily intercepted, are not encrypted in transit, and are v … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd 22.10
This ejabberd 22.10 release includes six months of work, over 140 commits, including relevant improvements in MIX, MUC, SQL, and installers, and bug fixes as usual.
This version brings support for latest MIX protocol version, and significantly improves detection and recovery of SQL connection issues.
There are no breaking changes in SQL schem … ⌘ Read more