Join us for OctogatosConf 2022
Live on September 15, 2022, with talks by industry experts in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, on topics including software development, security, technical project management, community, open source, professional development and best practices. ⌘ Read more

Contributing to open source at GitHub
A software engineer’s personal journey to becoming an open source contributor. ⌘ Read more

short blog post about onyx and building software tools for everybody

3 ways every company can get started with an open-source software strategy
The future of software development does not exist without open source. However, to maintain today’s software and create the software of the future, the largest organizations and beneficiaries of open source need to expand their collaboration with the community and help it grow. ⌘ Read more

I did a take home software engineering test for a company recently, unfortunately I was really sick (have finally recovered) at the time 😢 I was also at the same time interviewing for an SRE position (as well as Software Engineering).

Got the results of my take-home today and whilst there was some good feedback, man the criticisms of my work were harsh. I’m strictly not allowed to share the work I did for this take-home test, and I really can only agree with the “no unit tests” piece of the feedback, I could have done better there, but I was time pressured, sick and ran out of steam. I was using a lot of libraires to do the work so in the end found it difficult to actually think about a proper set of “Unit Tests”. I did write one (in shell) but I guess it wasn’t seen?

The other points were on my report and future work. Not detailed enough I guess? Hmmm 🤔

Am I really this bad? Does my code suck? 🤔 Have I completely lost touch with software engineering? 🤦‍♂️

oh yeah I love software that just dumps giant amounts of data into my home directory without giving me any option of changing where it dumps the data

Announcing the summer 2022 MLH Fellowship GitHub Contributors
Meet the 2022 MLH Fellowship cohort! This 12-week internship alternative is for aspiring software engineers, and powered by GitHub. ⌘ Read more

How can the United States build its Open Source Software policy?
We share a recap of a recent roundtable event about what a federal open source software policy could look like in the United States. ⌘ Read more

Open Source Monthly: June 2022 Edition
June’s Open Source Monthly features Mondos–a community-focused company building software and hardware that designs digital devices with respect for users’ time, attention, and well-being. ⌘ 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

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

this month’s blog post riffing on dealing with complexity in software ‘engineering’

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

5 simple things every developer can do to ship more secure code
From plug-and-play automations to protected branches, here are simple ways any developer can build more secure software on GitHub—all with a free account. ⌘ Read more

Your guide to GitHub InFocus: Improving the way software development teams work in 2022
We’re kicking off InFocus, a global virtual event focused on accelerating, securing, and improving the way software development teams work. ⌘ Read more

What’s new in GitHub Discussions: Organization Discussions, polls, and more
Today, we’re excited to bring you a few new features that will help you communicate, collaborate, and connect seamlessly with teams and communities about the software you’re building with the help of GitHub Discussions. ⌘ Read more

Validate all the things: improve your security with input validation!
If there’s one habit that can make software more secure, it’s probably input validation. Here’s how to apply OWASP Proactive Control C5 (Validate All Inputs) to your code. ⌘ Read more

Announcing the 2022 MLH Fellowship Cohort, powered by GitHub
The MLH Fellowship, powered by GitHub, is a 12-week internship alternative for aspiring software engineers. Meet the 2022 cohort! ⌘ Read more

Startup Aims To Help Software Companies Shift To Usage-Based Pricing Models
The startup Metronome “claims to have developed a billing and data infrastructure platform that is capable of ‘reliably’ processing data at scale so that usage-based companies can iterate on business models without code changes,” reports TechCrunch. “It does this by providing businesses with real-time APIs for their customer … ⌘ Read more

Reducing security risk in open source software with GitHub Actions and OpenSSF Scorecards V4
We’re excited to announce the V4 release of the OpenSSF’s Scorecard project in partnership with Google. ⌘ Read more

The Open Source Software Security Summit: securing the world’s code together
My colleague Stormy Peters and I are proud to represent GitHub at the White House’s Open Source Software Security Summit to share how securing open source begins by empowering developers. ⌘ Read more

Ask HN: most interesting, mildly impractical, well-written books on software? [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29306651]] #links

基于寄存器调用的软件加速

• 原文地址： https://menno.io/posts/golang-register-calling/
  
• 原文作者： Menno Finlay-Smits
  
• 本文永久链接： https://github.com/gocn/translator/blob/master/2021/w47_faster_software_through_register_based_calling.md
  
• 译者： cvley
  

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GoCN 每日新闻（2021-12-05）

1. Go 在 Google：服务于软件工程的语言设计（翻译） https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/3F9WAcxuCNCs7aNn5gjnew
   
2. 详解布隆过滤器原理与实现https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/5zHQbDs978OoA3g83NaVmw
   
3. 令人惊叹的软件架构[https://github.com/mehdihadeli/awesome-software-architecture](https://github.com/mehdihadeli/awesome-software-archite … ⌘ Read more

Sinclair Software & Manuals - Computerphile ⌘ Read more

JavaScript : web apps

wut?! 😳 seriously?! 🤦‍♂️

Python : small tools

Okay 👌

Go: micro services

Umm bad generalization 🤣 – Example yarnd that powers most of Yarn.social 😂

Java: enterprise software

Yes! Oh gawd yes! 🤣 And Java™ needs to die a swift death!

C: crimes

Hmmm? 🤔 I feel this one is going to have some backslash and/or go the way of “Hacker” being misconstrued to mean entirely different/incorrect things as is what’s happening in the media (for various definitions of “media”).

🤔 👋 Reconsidering moving Yarn.social’s development back to Github: Speaking of which (I do not forget); @fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com and I were discussing over a video call two nights ago, as well as @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org who joined a bit later, about the the whole moved of all of my projects and their source code off of Github. Whilst some folks do understand and appreciate my utter disgust over what Microsoft and Copilot did by blatantly scraping open source software’s codebases without even so much as any attempt at attribution or respecting the licenes of many (if not all?) open source projects.

That being said however, @fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com makes a very good and valid argument for putting Yarn.social’s codebases, repositories and issues back on Github for reasons that make me “torn” over my own sense of morality and ethics.

But I can live with this as long as I continue to run and operate my new (yet to be off the ground) company “Self Hosted Pty Ltd” and where it operates it’s own code hosting, servicesa, tools, etc.

Plese comment here on your thoughts. Let us decide togetehr 🤗

#yarnsocial #github #opsnsource #copilot #microsoft

7 unique software collaboration features in GitHub Discussions
Here are a few ways our teams use GitHub Discussions internally to build community, simplify workflows, and get key insights into our work. ⌘ Read more

Building the next phase of GitHub, together
This morning, I shared the following post with Hubbers in response to Nat’s announcement about his next adventure. I am thrilled to take on the role of CEO to build the next phase of GitHub for our global community of software developers. ⌘ Read more

Trump’s Group has 30 days to remedy the violation, or their rights in the software are permanently terminated. SF Conservancy

I am out of popcorn, but might need some for this. 😂

Bookmark : Standing on the shoulders of programmers: the power of free and open-source software – Physics World ⌘ Read more

It looks like @movq@www.uninformativ.de isn’t too active these days. This little piece of software is pretty neat!

new blog post about ecology of the software landscape

SiliconANGLE News: ‘DevOps for Dummies’ author Emily Freeman introduces revolutionary model for modern software development
#DevOps ⌘ Read more

@fab@foobucket.xyz Deciding what to write about is always an issue for me too… Sometimes I feel like all I do is announce updates to my different software stuff.

Vague infringement allegations considered harmful
Ensuring that software copyright allegations are specific and actionable benefits the entire developer ecosystem. That’s why GitHub submitted a “friend of the court” brief in the SAS Institute, Inc. v. World Programming Ltd. case before a Federal Court of Appeals. ⌘ Read more

A screenshot of a very tiny c program written on System7

I’ve got to use macOS by nature of my work. Lately I’m increasingly down on this. Here I will not re-hash anything about the current state of Apple’s hardware and software ecosystem. I don’t care.

Wanting to take a trip down nostolgia lane, however (to when I was 2 years old) I thought I’d install Mac OS System 7. What follows is a quick guide for doing the sa … ⌘ Read more

Matrix vs. XMPP

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XMPP and Matrix are two decentralized and federated free sofware projects for chat, including true end-to-end encrypted chat.

Users can either install the software on their own server if they want, but they can also easily register on any public server—both allow any XMPP or Matrix user to talk to users on their server or on any other one. In essence, it works like email: you might have an em … ⌘ Read more

My searx instance has changed domains
For those that use my SearX instance (which was formerly searx.lukesmith.xyz, I have now relocated it to searx.cedars.xyz, so if you use it as a default search engine, remember to change its url.

For those who don’t know what SearX is, it’s a metasearch engine that polls whatever search engines you want and aggregates the results. It is free software that can be installed by anyone on any server.

Read more about it … ⌘ Read more

My blog system now has tagging (all pure POSIX shell of course)
This isn’t live on the old blog system’s Github, but partially inspired by by Based Cooking’s tag system which is based on blogit, I’ve added in the feature to tag articles.

I’ve been wanting to write more articles and informational pages on my website, but doing that with no organization is somewhat … ⌘ Read more

Programs and Equipment I Use
After many requests, here are the programs I use for everything. I’m only putting here programs I consider tried and true and have used for a while.

I’m about getting things done quickly and having as little space between my thoughts and actions on the computer.

I like having vim-like bindings and prefer running programs in the terminal for simplicity’s sake. That said, I’m very much against the cringey meme that things … ⌘ Read more

Why I Use the GPL and Not Cuck Licenses
Every piece of software I write I license under the GNU Public License Version 3 (GPLv3) unless I have forked it from something else.

The GPLv3 is the premiere copyleft license, meaning that it not only allows users to run, modify and distribute their own versions of what I write, but it also requires that no one in that chain of development restrict and close-source that software: it and sof … ⌘ Read more

Safe harbors for software collaboration, part 2 ⌘ Read more…

don’t get me wrong, I love the power of emacs. but it’s a very complex piece of software, which is inherrently brittle. not a problem in the short term, but for some of my more long term tools it’s a consideration.

Applying DevSecOps to your software supply chain ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-12-03-applying-devsecops-to-your-software-supply-chain/

TeX is Long Software. LaTeX is not.

Nbdev: A literate programming environment that democratizes software engineering best practices ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-11-20-nbdev-a-literate-programming-environment-that-democratizes-software-engineering-best-practices/

once you set “alias wget=aria2c”, wget is a surprisingly good software.

On the blog: Politics in Art and Technology https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/10/18/stories.html #politics #art #software #rant

been adopting a document-as-you go approach to the !monolith wiki. as I dogfood my software to make pieces an etudes like !breathing_cards, I write about it in a wiki stub. #workflow #documentation

Safe harbors for software collaboration, part 1 ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-10-06-safe-harbors-for-software-collaboration-part-1/

Ensure your neighbors have the right to vote: A software engineer volunteers at his local elections office ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-09-16-ensure-your-neighbors-have-the-right-to-vote-a-software-engineer-volunteers-at-a-local-elections-office/

Secure at every step: What is software supply chain security and why does it matter? ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-09-02-secure-your-software-supply-chain-and-protect-against-supply-chain-threats-github-blog/

penning out the structure of my current !music_software_ecosystem

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Doing everything in the browser is indeed terrible. But I have to admit that e.g. jitsi-meet for a/v conferences is pretty neat. You just share the link and password and everybody can join without installing and configuring a new software.

1. The year of the WordPerfect Humble Bundle. https://www.humblebundle.com/software/work-remote-software

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: My Software https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/02/16/software.html #software #technology #meta

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Colagioia Industries https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/02/02/ci.html #software #technology #meta

@mdosch@mdosch.de Apple refuses to ship GPLv3 software. bash has security bugs that Apple doesn’t want to backport. So they’ve switched default shells again, this time to zsh. (bash and the previous default, tcsh, still ship with the OS.)

The #XMPP Newsletter is out! Read the latest news from the XMPP/Jabber communities: articles, events, software releases with servers, clients/apps, and services… https://xmpp.org/2019/10/newsletter-01-october/ #social #instantmessaging #chat

totext.py - Convert URL or RSS feed to text with readability - Raymii.org https://raymii.org/s/software/totext.py-Convert_URL_or_RSS_feed_to_plaintext_with_readability.html

CS programs encourage the idea (already common among students) that software engineers are professionals. First contact with the industry demonstrates that to the extent that folks have grown since graduation, its in their ability to delay the inevitable collapse of ugly hacks.

Why does software suck? Capitalism. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19483230

The Software That Shapes Workers’ Lives | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-software-that-shapes-workers-lives

Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (aka utah2000 or utah2k) http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/utah2000.html

Geoff Greer’s site: Software Rot https://geoff.greer.fm/2017/02/28/software-rot/

A lot of large software projects are so bad that liking them should automatically disqualify someone from working on them, unless you like them in a masochistic semi-sexual way.

The Complicated Economy of Open Source Software - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43zak3/the-internet-was-built-on-the-free-labor-of-open-source-developers-is-that-sustainable

Vocabulary - software-crisis https://softwarecrisis.miraheze.org/wiki/Vocabulary

If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source | Linux Journal https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/if-software-funded-public-source-its-code-should-be-open-source

Declarative Programming Pros And Cons | Toptal https://www.toptal.com/software/declarative-programming

GitHub - joelparkerhenderson/queueing_theory: Queueing theory: an introduction for software development https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing_theory

When Good Engineers Write Bad Software - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/reviews/when-good-engineers-write-bad-software

Cleanroom Software Engineering | Dr Dobb’s http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/cleanroom-software-engineering/184405405

Towards a theory of software development expertise | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/12/21/towards-a-theory-of-software-development-expertise/

Free software and the revolt against transactionality https://medium.com/@/free-software-and-the-revolt-against-transactionality-3a44a1b7f96d?source=friends_link&sk=dcc51b815d020b5fb50852ed6844922a

Distributed Operating System Amoeba - Fireball Software http://fsd-amoeba.sourceforge.net/

The faster you unlearn OOP, the better for you and your software — Dawid Ciężarkiewicz aka dpc https://dpc.pw/the-faster-you-unlearn-oop-the-better-for-you-and-your-software

Slow Software https://www.inkandswitch.com/slow-software.html

COLA (software architecture) - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLA_(software_architecture)

GitHub - uliwitness/Stacksmith: An intuitive software erector kit targeted at people new to programming, but with enough potential to stay useful once they’ve learned, inspired by HyperCard. https://github.com/uliwitness/stacksmith/

Folklore.org: Desk Ornaments http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Desk_Ornaments.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Software+Design

Folklore.org: The Grand Unified Model (2) - The Finder http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=The_Grand_Unified_Model_The_Finder.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Software+Design

Folklore.org: The Grand Unified Model (1) - Resources http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=The_Grand_Unified_Model.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Software+Design

TempleOS: an educational tool for programming experiments - TechRepublic https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/templeos-an-educational-tool-for-programming-experiments/

DigiBarn Software: Xerox Alto Operating System and Alto Applications http://www.digibarn.com/collections/software/alto/index.html

Things Nobody Told Me About Being a Software Engineer · Ana Ulin https://anaulin.org/blog/things-nobody-told-me-about-being-a-software-engineer/

@sdk@codevoid.de Thanx for the link. I will try this. So far I always used fgallery: https://www.thregr.org/~wavexx/software/fgallery/

Theory: no good software was designed after 1989. Thank you, David Hasselhoff (I guess).

Periodic reminder that Apple is a predatory rent-seeking company that hasn’t done anything innovative since 1980: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw9qk7/macbook-pro-software-locks-prevent-independent-repair

RE: Software disenchantment - Rakhim.org https://rakhim.org/2018/09/re-software-disenchantment/

Software disenchantment @ tonsky.me http://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/

TempleOS: an educational tool for programming experiments - TechRepublic https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/templeos-an-educational-tool-for-programming-experiments/

David Patterson Says It’s Time for New Computer Architectures and Software Languages - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/hardware/david-patterson-says-its-time-for-new-computer-architectures-and-software-languages

Another fun day of loading data for this software pilot. It’s fun just watching data load.

Software Rot and Classes of Rot Resistance · InductiveComputerScience/progsbase Wiki · GitHub https://github.com/InductiveComputerScience/progsbase/wiki/Software-Rot-and-Classes-of-Rot-Resistance

Bad idea of the day: using spaced repetition software to remind yourself to meditate on open questions

Manifesto for Minimalist Software Engineers | Minifesto.org http://minifesto.org/

W O R D S https://garbados.github.io/my-blog/regarding-software.html

I love working with 3rd Party software. When you have an issue you get to put in a ticket and then wait weeks for a response.