In reply to: Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM education forever - The Verge
This, for me, points to the arbitrariness of the“desktop” as a prime metaphor in computer user interfaces.
It made sense at the birth of contemporary computing — business suits and what not — but maybe there’s a new paradigm worth explori … ⌘ Read more
Q1K3 – Making Of
This was my third time participating in the js13kGames contest. I won in 2018 with Underrun and utterly failed to deliver any compelling gameplay with my 2019 entry Voidcall.
This year’s theme was “Space” – I chose to completely ignore it and instead decided to pay tribute to one of my all time favorite games on its 25th birthday:
The original Quake from 1996.
Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale
In 2019, to meet GitHub’s growth and availability challenges, we set a plan in motion to improve our tooling and ability to partition relational databases. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Developer Journal, Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/27/hiv.html #programming #project #devjournal
🙌 Liked: Interactive Fiction: The Computer Storygame “Adventure” : Mary Ann Buckles : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive ⌘ Read more
🙌 Liked: WDR paper computer - Wikipedia ⌘ Read more
🙌 Liked: Paper Computing ⌘ Read more
🙌 Liked: Pixel Art Tutorials - Saint11 ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Affair, Part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/25/affair3.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Tweets from 09/20 to 09/24 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/09/24/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Germany’s Far-Right Political Party, the AfD, Is Dominating Facebook This Election – The Markup ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Survivor https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/23/survivor.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Announcing npm’s new access token format
npm access tokens will now follow the established format of GitHub authentication tokens. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Advisory Database now supports Rust
We’re excited to announce that the GitHub Advisory Database now includes curated security advisories on the Rust ecosystem! ⌘ Read more
🙌 Liked: Jett: The Far Shore’s fictional language started life as gibberish choral music | Rock Paper Shotgun ⌘ Read more
🙌 Liked: Single bee is making an immortal clone army thanks to a genetic fluke | Live Science ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Startup, but Not Really Startup https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/22/startup.html #programming #techtips #linux
On the blog: Developer Journal, World Peace Eve https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/20/peace.html #programming #project #devjournal
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Affair, Part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/18/affair2.html #freeculture #bookclub
[bbnet] devlog 18889 ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Tweets from 09/13 to 09/17 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/09/17/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
let’s talk about class ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, More Tribbles, More Troubles https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/16/troubles.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Audit log streaming is now in public beta
If you’re a GitHub Enterprise Cloud customer, you can now set up a stream of audit log and Git events to Splunk or an Azure Event Hub. ⌘ Read more
The ReadME Project: A look back at the community stories that shape us
In August of 2020, we started highlighting stories that showcase how developers, maintainers, and organizations are moving humanity forward through The ReadME Project. ⌘ Read more
What’s new from GitHub Changelog? August 2021 Recap
What did we ship in August? Codespaces, Discussions, and lots of other updates, from the general availability of the dark high contrast theme to an auto-generated table of contents for wikis. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Developer Journal, Day of the Programmer https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/13/programmer.html #programming #project #devjournal
Announcing recipients of the GitHub Open Source Grants and GitHub Sponsors now open in India
Announcing recipients of the GitHub Open Source Grants and opening of GitHub Sponsors in India. ⌘ Read more
In reply to: Solarpunk, Climate Change and the New Thinkable — Mangal Media
Solarpunk sits at the intersection of possible positive futures and likely negative ones. It is a recognition of humanity’s wide-ranging damage upon the natural world and inevitably, upon itself. Solarpunk is also a reaction to the cynical and dystopian imaginaries that have come … ⌘ Read more
Quand la nature rassure, la brutalité du vécu s’estompe pour un instant.
Contexte : trop souvent, depuis le début de l’affaire OKC-Spatz, la beauté de Château de Soleil a été mise … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Affair, Part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/11/affair1.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Tweets from 09/06 to 09/10 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/09/10/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Join Us for Our Next Docker Community All-Hands!
Next week, on Thursday September 16th, 2021 (8am PST/5pm CET) we’ll be hosting our next quarterly Docker Community All-Hands. This virtual event, free and open to everyone, is a unique opportunity for Docker staff and the broader Docker community to come together for company and product updates, live demos, community presentations and a live Q&A. […]
The post [Join Us for Our Next Docker Community All-Hands!](https://www.docker.co … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Lorelei Signal https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/09/lorelei.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.2 brings new color modes and added security capabilities
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.2 is available today as a release candidate. With this release, we’re shipping over 70 new features and changes to improve the developer experience and deliver new security capabilities for our customers. ⌘ Read more
An analysis on developer-security researcher interactions in the vulnerability disclosure process
We put out a call to open source developers and security researchers to talk about the security vulnerability disclosure process. Here’s what we found. ⌘ Read more
re: libertarian seasteading ⌘ Read more
GitHub security update: Vulnerabilities in tar and @npmcli/arborist
Between July 21, 2021 and August 13, 2021 we received reports through one of our private security bug bounty programs from researchers regarding vulnerabilities in tar and @npmcli/arborist. ⌘ Read more
Increasing developer happiness with GitHub code scanning
How GitHub uses code scanning to increase developer happiness, and how you can too. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Developer Journal, Labor Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/06/labor.html #programming #project #devjournal
rlogᵛ ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Women Deserve Better Than Roe, Anyway https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/05/roe.html #rant #harm
On the blog: Cataclysm — Dark Days Ahead https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/04/cdda.html #freeculture #bookclub
Release Radar · August 2021 Edition
The end of financial year is complete, tax time is over, and everyone is back to shipping awesome projects. During August, our community has been super busy shipping lots of new updates. These new releases ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Tweets from 08/30 to 09/03 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/09/03/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, One of Our Planets Is Missing https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/02/missing.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Introducing the MLH Fellowship: GitHub Externship Track
Applications are now open for the MLH Fellowship: GitHub Externship Track. Apply by September 13. ⌘ Read more
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In reply to: West Fund, El Paso, TX: contribute to abortion access ⌘ Read more
GitHub Availability Report: August 2021
In August, we experienced two distinct incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for Git operations, API requests, webhooks, issues, pull requests, GitHub Pages, GitHub Packages, and GitHub Actions services. ⌘ Read more
Improving Git protocol security on GitHub
We’re changing which keys are supported in SSH and removing unencrypted Git protocol. Only users connecting via SSH or git:// will be affected. If your Git remotes start with https://, nothing in this post will affect you. If you’re an SSH user, read on for the details and timeline. ⌘ Read more
Introducing GitHub Global Campus
Calling all students! Get the most out of your GitHub Education experience by joining the GitHub student community on our new digital campus. ⌘ Read more
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
Request for proposals: Defining standardized GitHub metrics
The GitHub Social Impact and Policy teams are issuing a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a researcher to define a list of publicly available GitHub platform usage metrics by country for international development, public policy and economics disciplines. ⌘ Read more
Top DevOps Interview Questions (2021) - InterviewBit ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Developer Journal, Day of the Disappeared https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/08/30/disappeared.html #programming #project #devjournal
Building a desktop application for Datasette (and weeknotes)
Interesting, I have to check this out ! ⌘ Read more
In reply to: 1980s computer controls GRPS heat and AC
A Kentwood High School student programmed it when it was installed in the 1980s. Whenever the district has a problem with it, they go back to the original programmer who still lives in the area. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Typhoon, Part 4 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/08/28/typhoon4.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Tweets from 08/23 to 08/27 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/08/27/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
30 free and open source Linux games – part 3
With Linux celebrating it’s 30 year anniversary, I thought I’d use that as an excuse to highlight 30 of my favorite free and open source Linux games, their communities, and their stories. If you’ve haven’t ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Yesteryear https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/08/26/yesteryear.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
30 free and open source Linux games – part 2
Linux is celebrating its 30-year anniversary, so I’m taking the opportunity to highlight 30 of my favorite free and open source Linux games, their communities, and their stories. I shared the first 10 yesterday. ⌘ Read more