[47°09′16″S, 126°43′45″W] Reading: 1.69 Sv

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′02″W] –white noise–

[47°09′55″S, 126°43′16″W] Transfer aborted

GitHub Availability Report: June 2023
In June, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.  June 7 16:11 UTC (lasting 2 hours 28 minutes) On June 7 at 16:11 UTC, GitHub started experiencing increasing delays in an internal job queue used to process Git pushes. Our monitoring systems alerted our first responders after 19 minutes. During […] ⌘ Read more

[47°09′27″S, 126°43′16″W] Weather forecast alert – storm from SW

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′11″W] Reading: 1.53000 PPM

** of vast distances, connection over them, and being made to feel alone; of water catchment, soil, and bits **
Anomie, a word for your consideration.

The dictionary of cyborg anthropology defines anomie, in part, with this anecdote:

In everyday life, the modern vehicle and the daily commute is one of the most isolated moments an urban human can experience. T … ⌘ Read more

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

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′25″W] Reading: 1.13000 PPM

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

[47°09′43″S, 126°43′16″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to heavy rain

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′22″W] Wind speed: 43kph

[47°09′30″S, 126°43′16″W] Analyzing samples

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′49″W] Reading: 1.26000 PPM

[47°09′58″S, 126°43′16″W] Dosimeter fixed

[47°09′37″S, 126°43′16″W] Raw reading: 0x646B12F1, offset +/-1

[47°09′41″S, 126°43′16″W] Wind speed: 53kph – batteries low

[47°09′05″S, 126°43′16″W] –no signal–

Addressing GitHub’s recent availability issues
GitHub recently experienced several availability incidents, both long running and shorter duration. We have since mitigated these incidents and all systems are now operating normally. Read on for more details about what caused these incidents and what we’re doing to mitigate in the future. ⌘ Read more

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′56″W] Reading: 0.55 Sv

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′34″W] Saalmi, retransmit, please

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′00″W] Dosimeter malfunction

[47°09′07″S, 126°43′16″W] Saalmi, retransmit, please

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′33″W] Resetting dosimeter

[47°09′04″S, 126°43′29″W] Reading: 1.16 Sv

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′08″W] Raw reading: 0x64324651, offset +/-5

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′16″W] –interrupted–

[47°09′00″S, 126°43′16″W] Wind speed: 93kph – batteries low

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′44″W] Raw reading: 0x64227451, offset +/-1

[47°09′33″S, 126°43′16″W] Wind speed: N/A – Cannot comunicate

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′04″W] Reading: 1.24 Sv

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

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

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′55″W] Transfer 25% complete…

[47°09′23″S, 126°43′16″W] Taking samples

[47°09′09″S, 126°43′16″W] Dosimeter overflow

[47°09′10″S, 126°43′16″W] Non-significative results – sampling finished

[47°09′23″S, 126°43′16″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to thunderstorm

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′58″W] Weather forecast alert – storm from N

[47°09′59″S, 126°43′16″W] Transponder fixed

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′59″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work

** Ideas for making accessibility and equity a core part of the software development lifecycle **
In accessibility and the product person I said

we need to make accessibility a core part of our processes

Here, I want to talk about that in more detail. I want to briefly explore what making accessibility a part of core processes looks like, and how that is different from centering access … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Time Squared https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/16/time-squared.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

** Accessibility and the product person **
This post is a slightly modified version of a talk I presented to the product practice at my work. It presents a few ways that product designers and managers can help to move accessibility forward. It is a little bit different than what I normally share, here, but, I thought it may be interesting to some folks.

[![Picture of a slide with the title “Why though?” It also includes a quote from Kat Holmes’ book Mismatch. The quote reads: “There are many challeng … ⌘ Read more

ICYMI: CodeQL enhancements
Learn about CodeQL’s improved user experience and enhancements that let you scan new languages, detect new types of CWEs, and perform deeper analyses of your applications. ⌘ Read more

[47°09′52″S, 126°43′16″W] Reading: 0.26000 PPM

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′53″W] Weather forecast alert – storm from NW

On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Life Blood, chapters 14 – 16 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/28/life-blood-5.html #freeculture #bookclub

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′21″W] Dosimeter fixed

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 01/16 to 01/20 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/20/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

[47°09′54″S, 126°43′16″W] Sample analyzing complete – starting transfer

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Snorlax leaning into the whole vibe of her namesake. ⌘ Read more

Basecamp Details ‘Obscene’ $3.2 Million Bill That Prompted It To Quit the Cloud
An anonymous reader shares a report: David Heinemeier Hansson, CTO of 37Signals – which operates project management platform Basecamp and other products – has detailed the colossal cloud bills that saw the outfit quit the cloud in October 2022. The CTO and creator of Ruby On Rails did all the sums and came up with an e … ⌘ Read more

[47°09′43″S, 126°43′16″W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication

On my blog: Developer Diary, Martin Luther King Jr. Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/16/mlk.html #programming #project #devjournal

[47°09′56″S, 126°43′16″W] Transponder malfunction

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′12″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to blizzard

[47°09′30″S, 126°43′16″W] –interrupted–

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′21″W] Working impossible due to heavy rain

[47°09′28″S, 126°43′16″W] Transfer aborted

[47°09′19″S, 126°43′39″W] Reading: 1.16 Sv

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′38″W] Wind speed: 94kph

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

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′02″W] Dosimeter overflow

[47°09′15″S, 126°43′16″W] Dosimeter malfunction

[47°09′45″S, 126°43′16″W] Transfer aborted

[47°09′43″S, 126°43′16″W] Reading: 1.08000 PPM

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′41″W] Reading: 1.60000 PPM

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′42″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′40″W] Transfer 25% complete…

[47°09′03″S, 126°43′16″W] Wind speed: 67kph – batteries low

In reply to: Oatmeal - My programming language odyssey

A while ago someone asked what I liked about the programming languages I like — forth and lisp specifically.

I’ve noodled on it for a bit now, and I think the reason I like forth and scheme and other languages with something like a repl is because when I start a new project I’m dropped right into the entire language and t … ⌘ Read more

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Happy birthday hugs ⌘ Read more

[47°09′57″S, 126°43′16″W] Weather forecast alert – storm from W

[47°09′19″S, 126°43′16″W] Taking samples

[47°09′54″S, 126°43′16″W] Transponder still failing

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′15″W] Reading: 1.94 Sv

[47°09′54″S, 126°43′16″W] Reading: 1.80 Sv

[47°09′42″S, 126°43′16″W] Taking samples

Git Merge 2022 – that’s a wrap! 🎬
Git Merge 2022 just wrapped up bringing the community together for 16 talks, three workshops, one Git Contributor Summit, and lots of great conversations over two days. Read on for more info, photos from the event, and all of the session recordings. ⌘ Read more

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′53″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′33″W] Transfer aborted

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′13″W] Reading: 1.06000 PPM

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′01″W] Raw reading: 0x632F53B1, offset +/-1

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′43″W] Re-taking samples

Security alert: new phishing campaign targets GitHub users
On September 16, GitHub Security learned that threat actors were targeting GitHub users with a phishing campaign by impersonating CircleCI to harvest user credentials and two-factor codes. While GitHub itself was not affected, the campaign has impacted many victim organizations. ⌘ Read more

How we tripled max concurrent jobs to boost performance of GitHub Actions
The GitHub Actions team has done lots of work to improve the performance and resource consumption of Actions on GHES in the past year. ⌘ Read more

[47°09′13″S, 126°43′16″W] 3423 days without news from Herve

[47°09′59″S, 126°43′16″W] Raw reading: 0x6308A7B1, offset +/-2

[47°09′52″S, 126°43′16″W] Reading: 1.09000 PPM

[47°09′57″S, 126°43′16″W] Transponder still failing

2022 Transparency Report: January to June
We’re reporting on a six-month period rather than annually to increase our level of transparency. For this report, we’ve continued with the more granular reporting we began in our 2021 reports. ⌘ Read more

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′38″W] –interrupted–

GitHub Pages now uses Actions by default
As GitHub Pages, home to 16 million websites, approaches its 15th anniversary, we’re excited to announce that all sites now build and deploy with GitHub Actions. ⌘ Read more

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′18″W] Dosimeter still failing

[47°09′51″S, 126°43′16″W] Saalmi, retransmit, please

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′21″W] Transfer aborted

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′14″W] Carrier too weak

[47°09′43″S, 126°43′16″W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication