My smartphone story
I’ve recently read a few posts where the authors have shared their smartphone stories. Then last week I got my hands on my very first smartphone again (I’m a bit of a hoarder when it comes to that and still own every single one of my smartphones) and figured why not blog about it? So here it is, my smartphone story. ⌘ Read more
Reminder to myself: Don’t delete the Telegram bot you’re using to auto-post new blog posts to Telegram. 🤦♂️ ⌘ Read more
My current state regarding meal replacements
In my 2019 Year in Review, I wrote the following: ⌘ Read more
Implementing a robust digital identity
How can you robustly assert and identify a user’s identity? ⌘ Read more
How we think about browsers
Discover how GitHub thinks about browser support, look at usage patterns, and learn about the tools we use to make sure our customers are getting the best experience. ⌘ Read more
Dependabot Updates hit GA in GHES
Dependabot is generally available in GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5. Here is how to set up Dependabot on your instance. ⌘ Read more
Introducing Entitlements: GitHub’s open source Identity and Access Management solution
We’re excited to announce that we’re open sourcing our Identity and Access Management solution: Entitlements. ⌘ Read more
Introducing Achievements: recognizing the many stages of a developer’s coding journey
Available in public beta today, we’re announcing Achievements as a new way to commemorate milestones on GitHub. ⌘ Read more
Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.12.1 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.
While the 0.12.0 release has been a huge success, inevitably people found some
aspects that didn’t work quite as intended, or weren’t as polished as they
ought to be. With the appreciation for the help from everyone reporting issues
to us, we’re happy to now release our best version yet - 0.12.1 is here!
Notably, we made a couple of changes that improve compatibility with Jitsi
Meet, we fixed some bugs … ⌘ Read more
Sunsetting Atom
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022. ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: MongooseIM 5.1 Configuration Rework
MongooseIM is a modern messaging server that is designed for scalability and high performance. The use of XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) extensions (XEPs) means it is also highly customisable. Since version 4.0 it has been using the TOML configuration file format, which is much more user-friendly than the previously used Erlang terms. The latest release, MongooseIM 5.1, makes it more developer-friendly as well by … ⌘ Read more
One developer’s journey bringing Dependabot to GitHub Enterprise Server
A personal story about building the feature you want and sharing it with the world. ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Modern Software Engineering Principles for Fintechs by Daniel Pilon at SumUp
Daniel Pilon is a Software Engineering Manager at SumUp. Since 2007 he has worked across several industries before arriving in the fintech space. He has experience in many programming languages, such as C#, Java and JavaScript but since discovering Elixir and the power of functional programming a few years ago, he hasn’t looked back.
Right now he is building SumUp Bank, a complete digital banking solution … ⌘ Read more
It’s worth buying Logitech devices. Even though they are not exactly cheap, they are of high quality and in case of a warranty claim, you can get a new device as a replacement without any complications. At least that’s my experience (with my MX Master 3). 😌 ⌘ Read more
Migrating away from Cloudflare
Recently I stumbled across two threads regarding Cloudflare that somehow left a bitter taste. I think it’s a big red flag when users have to seek support via public forums because their accounts have been banned from a service, but no help comes via support. ⌘ Read more
Looking at my Feels blog it is clear that I am terrible at coming up with good post titles…
Introducing GitHub Skills
Today, we’re announcing GitHub Skills, a new learning experience to help you throughout your GitHub journey. ⌘ Read more
A beginner’s guide to CI/CD and automation on GitHub
CI/CD and workflow automation are native capabilities on GitHub platform. Here’s how to start using them and speed up your workflows. ⌘ Read more
What’s new in security and user management for GitHub Enterprise
Learn how you can securely manage users with the latest ships for GitHub Enterprise. ⌘ Read more
Early morning at the train station. 🚉 ⌘ Read more
GitHub Team or Free? How to choose the right plan
Read about all the features you may not have known come on the GitHub Free plan, and how to choose the right plan for you. ⌘ Read more
Welcome to Maintainer Month! 🎉
During the month of June, we’re holding space for open source maintainers to gather, share, and be celebrated. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Availability Report: May 2022
In May, we experienced three distinct incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple services across GitHub.com. This report also sheds light into the billing incident that impacted Actions and Codespaces users in April. ⌘ Read more
Connecting to a private network from GitHub-hosted Actions runners
Several ways for GitHub-hosted Actions runners to connect to resources on your private network. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Sponsors launches in Brazil
GitHub Sponsors is now available in Brazil—an exciting expansion for one of our fastest growing developer communities. ⌘ Read more
My May ‘22 in Review
May is now over too, it feels like it has flown by. But before the month is completely over, I want to take a short look back… ⌘ Read more
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5 is now generally available
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5 is available now, including access to the Container registry, the addition of Dependabot, enhanced administrator capabilities, and features for GitHub Advanced Security. ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Togethr, SMS-only Ports, Snikket Hosting
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 … ⌘ Read more
Top games + source code from Gamedev.js Jam 2022
The recently-ended Gamedev.js Jam 2022 encouraged game developers to create web games and share their sources on GitHub. GitHub Star ⭐️ @end3r shares the best 13 entries and sees what experts and other participants think of them. ⌘ Read more
NixOS 22.05 released
Hey everyone, I’m Janne Heß,
the release manager for 22.05. As promised, the latest stable
release is here: NixOS 22.05 “Quokka”.
- Release manual - Highlights
- [New\ Services]( … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd 22.05
A new ejabberd release is finally here! ejabberd 22.05 includes five months of work, 200 commits, including many improvements (MQTT, MUC, PubSub, …) and bug fixes.
– Improved MQTT, MUC, and ConverseJS integration
– New installers and container
– Support Erlang/OTP 25
When upgrading from the previous version please notice: there are minor changes in SQL schemas, the included rebar and reba … ⌘ Read more
20 Jahre bloggen! ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/68D
20 Jahre bloggen! ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/68D
A fun little game: Pocket City
I’m generally not a gamer, playing computer games has never really fascinated me, I find programming more exciting. But sometimes I don’t feel like programming or I don’t have the possibility to do it. Of course it’s important to be bored sometimes, because then you can think about things for a while. But a little entertainment in a free minute is sometimes not bad as well. ⌘ Read more
**Estou de regresso à escrita, e à Ficção Científica.
Desta vez, participo com um pequeno conto para o livro “Lamego 2022 - o antes e o depois”, uma colectânia de textos nos mais variados formatos e estilos, que olha para a cidade onde nasci.
https://tilde.pt/~marado/blog/lamego-2022—o-antes-e-o-depois.html**
Estou de regresso à escrita, e à Ficção Científica.
Desta vez, participo com um pequeno conto para o livro “Lamego 2022 - o antes e o depois”, uma colectânia de textos nos mais variados formatos e est … ⌘ Read more
sqlite3 fiddle
With all my SQL and SQLite posts, this link is probably also quite interesting: sqlite3 fiddle. ⌘ Read more
npm security update: Attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens
npm’s impact analysis of the attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens and additional findings. ⌘ Read more
Switzerland has some nice and beautiful places! 🇨🇭 ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: WombatOAM & the machine learning library
WombatOAM, the powerful operations, monitoring, and maintenance platform has a new machine learning library to assist with metric prediction. Learn about the main features, the algorithms used and how you can benefit from it together with WombatOAM’s new UI from Mohamed Ali Khechine, [Tamás Lengyel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tam%C3%A1s-lengyel-715b7 … ⌘ Read more
How we use Dependabot to secure GitHub
A two-part story about how GitHub’s Product Security Engineering team rolled out Dependabot internally to track vulnerable dependencies, and how GitHub tracks and prioritizes technical debt. ⌘ Read more
Improved REST API documentation
We’re excited to announce some big improvements to our REST API documentation. We know developers rely on this documentation to integrate with GitHub, and we are committed to making it trustworthy, easy to find, and easy to use. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Sponsors launches in India
GitHub Sponsors is now available to all developers in India – no more waitlist, you can sign up right away! ⌘ Read more
お知らせ：JPCERT/CC Eyes「Locked Shields 2022参加記」 ⌘ Read more
Eight years of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty program
It was another record year for our Security Bug Bounty program. We’re excited to highlight some achievements we’ve made together with the bounty community from 2021! ⌘ Read more
“Common Table Expressions in SQL”
I’m currently working in a project that involves a lot of data processing and therefore databases. This means that we often come into contact with SQL at work and have to write an SQL query at least once a day. ⌘ Read more
I have neglected my homepage for a while. But now I have deleted or updated a few pages, like the list with the hardware I use or the list with my self-hosted services. 🧹 ⌘ Read more
Release Radar · April 2022 Edition
Each month, we highlight open source projects that have shipped major updates. These include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend projects. Here are our top staff picks on projects that shipped major version releases in April. Flyte 1.0 I was lucky enough to discover Flyte during Hacktoberfest last year. Now, Flyte has […] ⌘ Read more
Action needed by GitHub Connect customers using GHES 3.1 and older to adopt new authentication token format updates
Upgrade to GHES 3.2 or newer by June 3rd to continue using GitHub Connect. ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: .@OpenSourceOrg to the European Commission: make space for patent-free standards too
some supposedly “open“ standards – including those ratified by SDOs like ISO, CEN and ETSI – can’t be implemented without buying a license
https://blog.opensource.org/osi-to-the-european-commission-make-space-for-patent-free-standards-too/**
. @OpenSourceOrg to the European Commission: make space for patent-free standards too
some supposedly “op … ⌘ Read more
Math support in Markdown
Mathematical expressions are key to information sharing amongst engineers, scientists, data scientists, and mathematicians. Today we are pleased to announce that math expressions can be rendered in Markdown on GitHub using $$ as a delimiter for code blocks with math content or the $ delimiter for inline math expressions. ⌘ Read more
How we’re continuing to enable all developers to build
Learn about what GitHub is doing to make their products more inclusive, and what’s next. ⌘ Read more
Securing and delivering high-quality code with innersource metrics
With innersource, it’s important to measure both the amount of innersource activity and the quality of the code being created. Here’s how. ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd 22.05
A new ejabberd release is finally here! ejabberd 22.05 includes five months of work, 200 commits, including many improvements (MQTT, MUC, PubSub, …) and bug fixes.
- Improved MQTT, MUC, and ConverseJS integration
- New installers and container
- Support Erlang/OTP 25
When upgrading from the previous version please notice: there are minor changes in SQL schemas, the included rebar and rebar3 binaries require Erlang/OTP 22 or higher, and make rel uses different paths. There are no break … ⌘ Read more
How to measure innersource across your organization
The innersource contribution percentage is the rate of contributions from people outside the team that originally authored the software. Let’s dive into what it can look like for your organization. ⌘ Read more
My apartment is a really good starting point for a small evening ride with my pedelec on the bike path, which was originally once a railroad line. In the evening, very few people are on the way, so it’s a free ride. The 45 nm strong rear-wheel motor helps me to drive without effort on average about 25 km/h and also to overcome slopes easily. Even light drizzle has not bothered me today. 🚴♂️ ⌘ Read more
How we’re using projects to build projects
At GitHub we use GitHub to build our own products, and the new projects experience is no different. Check out how our team uses projects to build powerful project planning for developers. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Achieves ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Certification!
GitHub’s Information Security Management System (ISMS) has been certified against ISO 27001:2013, an internationally recognized standard for security program best practices. ⌘ Read more
お知らせ：JPCERT/CC Eyes「HUI Loaderの分析」 ⌘ Read more
WPSR ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/67X
WPSR ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/67X
“Friendlier SQL with DuckDB”
I come into contact with SQL almost every day, be it at work (Oracle Database) or while developing my blog software (SQLite). I don’t find SQL as bad as some others might, but sometimes SQL could be better. ⌘ Read more
Gemini capsule
Gemini is a lightweight Internet protocol. It’s heavier than Gopher
but lighter than HTTP(S), especially if combined with all other web
technologies. The name makes sense if Gopher is Project Mercury and
the web is the Apollo program.
One of its uses is to serve gemtext, which is a lightweight
Markdown-like markup language, instead of HTML. Gemini browsers don’t
have support for neither Javascript, nor CSS, nor any of the other new
web technologies. It can be beautiful anyway, s … ⌘ Read more
Gemini capsule
Gemini is a lightweight Internet
protocol. It’s heavier than Gopher but a bit lighter than HTTP(S).
It’s the Gemini programme if Gopher is Mercury and HTTP is Atlas.
One of its uses is to serve gemtext, which is a lightweight
Markdown-like markup language, instead of HTML. Gemini browsers don’t
have support for neither Javascript, nor CSS, nor any of the other new
web technologies. It can be beautiful anyway, see for instance
[Lagrange]( [http … ⌘ Read more
お知らせ：JPCERT/CC Eyes「FIRSTの加盟手続きが変わりました」 ⌘ Read more
JMP: Togethr: Soprani.ca Social
Last week we launched a sister product from the same team that brings you JMP: Togethr. Why are we launching a second product? Why now? What does this have to do with the mission of JMP in particular, or the Sopranica project in general?
Togethr is a managed hosting platform for small Fediverse instances. It is powered by the ActivityPub protocol that powers Mastodon, PeerTube, and so many others. While there are sev … ⌘ Read more
Graduation is here! Celebrate the Class of 2022, and join GitHub on June 11 🎓
This year, thousands of students from around the world came together and redefined the world we live in, how we learn, and how we move forward. We are honored to be part of the experience and eager to celebrate this milestone. So on June 11 we celebrate the Class of 2022 and welcome them to […] ⌘ Read more
Open Source Monthly – May 2022 Edition
Introduction Open Sauced, GitHub’s Explore page, Hacktoberfest, and First Timers Only help folks discover open source projects. This monthly series–Open Source Monthly—will add to these efforts by helping: First-time contributors find the right project to contribute to Corporations and individuals find a new project to sponsor Open source maintainers gain more consistent contributors and sponsors […] ⌘ Read more
Enhanced 2FA experience for your npm account
Late last year, in response to an unprecedented series of account takeovers resulting from the compromise of developer accounts without 2FA enabled, we committed to a variety of enhancements to the npm registry to make two-factor authentication (2FA) adoption easier for developers. Today, we are launching a public beta for a significantly improved 2FA experience […] ⌘ Read more
Supercharging GitHub Actions with Job Summaries
You can now output and group custom Markdown content on the Actions run summary page. ⌘ Read more
Prepare for next semester with GitHub Global Campus and Codespaces
Teachers, it is now your turn to join GitHub Global Campus with our student community! Get access to exclusive benefits, programs, and the Power of Codespaces at no cost in GitHub Classroom! ⌘ Read more
some blogs have a “start here” page that is not the default landing page: why? most people visiting your site will be there for the first time, but they have to perform an additional click to go to the “start here” page, unnecessarily.
23 doesn’t feel all that different from 22. 🤔😊 ⌘ Read more
Today’s most common security vulnerabilities explained
We’re taking a look at some of the most common security vulnerabilities and detailing how developers can best protect themselves. ⌘ Read more
Paul Schaub: Creating an OpenPGP Web-of-Trust Implementation – A Series
I am excited to announce that PGPainless will receive funding by NGI Assure to develop an implementation of the Web-of-Trust specification proposal!
The Web-of-Trust (WoT) serves as an e … ⌘ Read more
I already liked cherry blossoms 6 years ago. This photo is from 2016, taken with my Motorola Moto G 3rd Gen. That was my third of in total five smartphones. ⌘ Read more
20 of our favorite games + source code from Ludum Dare 50
20 of our favorite games plus source code from the latest Ludum Dare competition. ⌘ Read more
The ReadME Project Q&A: What you need to know about teaching technical skills
Teaching is a great way to not only help others but to better learn a topic yourself. ⌘ Read more
I’ve found a nice place near my apartment, where I can sit down after a long day of work and can finally work through a few articles from my reading list. It is an old cemetery, which was redesigned as a park. There’s a school next to it, so it’s not that quite, but that’s ok. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Availability Report: April 2022
In April, we experienced two distinct incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for Codespaces and GitHub Packages. ⌘ Read more
No standstill?
When I reflect on myself like this, I have long had the impression that I am a person who cannot live at a standstill. I always need a topic that keeps me busy, a thing in my life that I can optimize or at least a frequently changing topic that I can dive into. ⌘ Read more
Software security starts with the developer: Securing developer accounts with 2FA
GitHub will require all users who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of 2023. ⌘ Read more
Being friendly: Strategies for friendly fork management
This is the second and final post in a series describing friendly forks and alternative strategies for managing them. ⌘ Read more
Another reason to like spring: cherry blossoms. ⌘ Read more
My April ‘22 in Review
April is also over now, time to take a short look back. ⌘ Read more
this month’s blog post riffing on dealing with complexity in software ‘engineering’
Bringing code navigation to communities
Thanks to the efforts of the Elixir community, GitHub supports code navigation for Elixir repositories. Read how favorite language can add this support too! ⌘ Read more
“Cool Things People Do With Their Blogs”
I do from time to time forays through the Internet and like to visit cool blogs. Wouter has created a list with a few examples and even mentioned my blog in it. 🤓 ⌘ Read more
Best practices to keep your projects secure on GitHub
These days software is subject to an ever-changing threat landscape. Check out the many ways you can keep your projects secure on GitHub today. ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: New Staff, New Commands
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; … ⌘ Read more
Custom Post Type: Comment ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/5tX
Custom Post Type: Comment ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/5tX
Why I now mute my watch
I am a user of a smartwatch. It is already the third smartwatch in my life (first the Sony SmartWatch 3, then the Samsung Galaxy Watch and now the Galaxy Watch 4) and I am actually quite satisfied with it. I always need an easy way to see the time, even when I’m riding my bike and can’t look at my smartphone (being on time is important to me!), plus it counts my steps and gives me the ability to view notifications right on my wrist so I don’t always have to get my smartphone out of my pocket firs … ⌘ Read more
GitHub Desktop 3.0 brings better integration for your pull requests
GitHub Desktop 3.0 brings better integration with your GitHub Pull Requests. You can now receive real time notifications and review the status of your check runs for your pull request. ⌘ Read more
Just for the record: I left Twitter before it was cool to do so. 😊 But seriously, it was the right decision back then and I have no regrets. ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: What are the key trends in digital payments? part 2/2
In the second and final part of this article, we take a look at some of the important developments in how payments work using our fintech industry knowledge and experience working on some of the most performant fintech systems in the world such as Vocalink’s Instant Payments Solution (IPS).
In part 1 we looked at the rapid growth in e-commerce, demand for faster payments and consumer adoption of relativel … ⌘ Read more
Die (Twitter) Posse ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/66y
Die (Twitter) Posse ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/66y
お知らせ：JPCERT/CC Eyes「2021年に報告されたフィッシングサイトの傾向と利用されたドメインについて」 ⌘ Read more
At the cemetery, by a babbling fountain with a passing train. ⌘ Read more
Celebrating 40 years of ZX Spectrum ❤️ 💛 💚 💙
The ZX Spectrum, one of the best-selling microcomputers of all time, celebrates its 40 years anniversary today. Read more about how the community is still active - creating new content, archiving old content, and hacking on all sorts of hardware. ⌘ Read more