I posted about GoToSocial, but another Mastodon-alternative and Fediverse software, Takahē, seems to make fast progress and has some unique features like support for multiple domains or multiple identities per user. I haven’t tried running it yet, but it looks promising! ⌘ Read more

I decided to become popular in decentralized social networks. 1. Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/win0err — mostly landscape photography; 2. Mastodon: https://mastodon.online/@win0err — software engineering content

Retiring My Fiat Donation Portal
I’ve decided to retire my fiat donation portal at donate.lukesmith.xyz, where people could donate to me via debit and credit cards.
This will happen by the end of this calendar year.

It’s more in keeping with my principles of free software, self-ownership and everything else to only allow cryptocurrency donations.
This also is a subtle nudge to people who want to donate in streams to get into Bitcoin and Monero, as opposed to using fiat o … ⌘ Read more

Raising the bar for software security: next steps for GitHub.com 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. Learn more about our approach, when we’ll begin our rollout, and what you can expect as we begin requiring 2FA. ⌘ Read more

Git Commit Uruguay: Lowering barriers to make software development more inclusive and diverse
We delivered two different courses specifically designed to help students in the lowest-income neighborhood of Montevideo, Uruguay learn how to use GitHub and understand the value of open source. ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter November 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of November 2022. This is the final release for this year and we will have a well-deserved winter break until the 5th of February 2023! Many thanks to all readers and all contributors!

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may … ⌘ Read more

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

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?

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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

How to Build a Restreaming Server with a Raspberry Pi
First of all, what is a restreaming server? Sometimes you want to livestream video from a device like an ATEM Mini or OBS to multiple destinations. Many devices and software like this will let you push video to just one RTMP destination at a time. ⌘ Read more

Y2K and 2038
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@mckinley@twtxt.net Thank you! I didn’t even know about signing and encrypting XML documents. Right, RSS is a little bit messy.

Unfortunately, the autodiscovery document in one of your linked resources does not exist anymore. What annoys me in Atom is the distinction between <id> and <link>. I always want my URL also to be my ID, so I have to duplicate that – unnecessarily in my opinion.

Also, never found a good explanation why I should add <link rel="self" … /> to my feeds. I just do, but I don’t understand why. The W3C Feed Validation Service says:

[…] This value is important in a number of subscription scenarios where often times the feed aggregator only has access to the content of the feed and not the location from which the feed was fetched.

This just sounds like a very questionable bandaid to bad software architecture. Why would the feed parser need access to the feed URL at this stage? And if so, why not just pass down the input source? Just doesn’t make sense to me.

Also, I just noticed that I reference the http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/ namespace, but don’t use it in most of my feeds. Gotta fix that. Must have copied that from my yfav feed without paying attention what I’m doing.

Your article made me reread the Atom spec and I found out, that I can omit the <author> in the <entry> when I specify a global <author> at <feed> level. Awesome! Will do that as well and thus reduce the feed size.

Microsoft declares ownership of all Open Source software
Using the “Finders Keepers clause” of the GitHub Terms of Service. ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter October 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of October 2022.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at t … ⌘ 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

Lunduke’s Weird Computing News - Oct 30, 2022
Listen now (29 min) | Haiku Week is coming, FreeBSD 12.4 & financial woes, Ladybird browser improvements, and running classic Mac Software… without MacOS. ⌘ Read more

3 strategies for consolidating your toolkit and boosting productivity
Explore how GitHub Enterprise can help you transform your software engineering organization and practices. ⌘ Read more

Why we’re excited about the Sigstore general availability
The Sigstore GA means you can protect your software supply chain today with GitHub Actions, and will power new npm security capabilities in the near future. ⌘ Read more

Maybe it wasn’t the best decision to name my blog software “GoBlog”, because it has a negative meaning in Indonesian. But whatever, I won’t rename it now… I even bought a domain with the name. ⌘ Read more

OSI’s Deep Dive is an essential discussion on the future of AI and open source
GitHub is sponsoring Open Source Initiative’s Deep Dive: AI because we think it’s important for the community to unpack how open source software, process, and principles can help best deliver on the promise of AI. ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Oct 9, 2022
Listen now (30 min) | Happy birthday, Free Software! + A hard drive noise maker & Ubuntu Pro ⌘ Read more

“WebVM: Linux Virtualization in WebAssembly with Full Networking via Tailscale”
When I tell people about programming or my work, they often say software development is too abstract for them. But there are moments when I think that about some software as well. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Pair Programming
As a junior software developer, finding the right tools and techniques to help you learn a new language or technology can make a huge difference. While spending the last few months learning Erlang and Elixir, one of the techniques that I have found really helpful is pair programming.

I will be breaking down the concept of pair programming and my experiences with it so far, including the benefits and different ways of utilizing this programming style.

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter September 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of September 2022.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read mor … ⌘ Read more

Tigase Blog: Tigase XMPP Server

Tigase XMPP Server is a standalone application written in Java. It is not a “web server” system. It runs independently
from any other software. In most cases all it needs to run is Java Virtual Machine (JVM). For extended functionality
it may require a few external libraries for the most part it is all in-house developed software.

Java is known and infamous for it’s high resource requirements and slowness. This unfor … ⌘ Read more

Tigase Blog: Tigase XMPP Libraries

Actually nothing new and nothing surprising here. We want to have as much of a reusable code as possible. And this
reusable code should have a simple but powerful API to be useful for quickly creating software.

That’s it.

And this is how we design and develop our XMPP libraries. Check them out.

Documentation to all our projects is available online and sample codes? Take a look at our XMPP Chat apps which are
open source too. ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: Os vídeos das apresentações da nossa celebração do Software Freedom Day 2022 já estão disponíveis: https://viste.pt/w/p/4irPoTqG4bSHPU4JD56TGL

Obrigado Espaço Musas por nos receber e a toda a gente que participou!**
Os vídeos das apresentações da nossa celebração do Software Freedom Day 2022 já estão disponíveis: viste.pt/w/p/4irPoTqG4bSHPU4…

Obrigado Espaço Musas por nos receber e a toda a gente que participou!

![](https://nitter.net/pic/card_im … ⌘ Read more

Model Driven Software Engineering - Computerphile ⌘ Read more

The ReadME Project: Built for you!
The ReadME Project & Podcast evolve with community expert voices and topics to stoke discussion about the culture and craft of software development. ⌘ Read more

Transform your software engineering practices with GitHub Enterprise
Go beyond knowing GitHub as the home of open source and explore how GitHub Enterprise can help you transform your software engineering organization and practices. ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: Hoje assinalamos o #SoftwareFreedomDay! Vem comemorar connosco no Porto!
Detalhes em:
https://ansol.org/eventos/2022-09-17-software-freedom-day/
Hoje assinalamos o #SoftwareFreedomDay! Vem comemorar connosco no Porto!

Detalhes em:

ansol.org/eventos/2022-09-17…

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Paul Schaub: Using Pushdown Automata to verify Packet Sequences
As a software developer, most of my work day is spent working practically by coding and hacking away. Recently though I stumbled across an interesting problem which required another, more theoretical approach;

An OpenPGP message contains of a sequence of packets. There are signatures, encrypted data packets and their accompanying encrypted session keys, compressed data and literal data, the latter being the packet … ⌘ Read more

GoToSocial seems like a promising alternative to Mastodon. It’s written in Go (👍 in my opinion), lightweight and pretty good documented so far. It’s still “alpha software” but seems to make great progress. In the past, I self hosted a microblog.pub instance and then after some time without any Fediverse profile other than my blog, which has ActivityPub support as well, signed up at Fosstodon to be able to reply to blog comments from the Fediverse. I already set up an instace of GTS, but will probably wait to use it … ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: Este sábado dia 17 de Setembro, vamos estar no Espaço Musas no #Porto a assinalar o #SoftwareFreedomDay com apresentações e um jantar convívio.
Informações e inscrições em:
https://ansol.org/eventos/2022-09-17-software-freedom-day/
Este sábado dia 17 de Setembro, vamos estar no Espaço Musas no #Porto a assinalar o #SoftwareFreedomDay com apresentações e um jantar convívio.

Informações e inscrições em: … ⌘ Read more

Four Ways Docker Boosts Enterprise Software Development
David Balakirev, Regional CTO at Adnovum, describes how they show the benefits of container technology based on Docker. ⌘ Read more

Maxime Buquet: Versioning
I finally took time to setup a forge and some old drafts turned up. I am
publishing one of them today as is even though it’s 4 years old
(2018-08-07T13:27:43+01:00). I’m not as grumpy as I was at the time but I
still think this applies.

Today I am grumpy at people’s expectation of a free software project, about
versioning and releases. I am mostly concerned about applications rather than
libraries in this article but I am sure some of this would apply to libraries
as well.

Today we were discussing ab … ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: A ANSOL vai celebrar o #SoftwareFreedomDay no dia 17 de setembro no Espaço Musas no Porto, com um conjunto de apresentações e um jantar convívio. Mais info e inscrições em https://ansol.org/eventos/2022-09-17-software-freedom-day/
A ANSOL vai celebrar o #SoftwareFreedomDay no dia 17 de setembro no Espaço Musas no Porto, com um conjunto de apresentações e um jantar convívio. Mais info e inscrições em [ansol.org/eventos/2022-09-17…](https://an … ⌘ Read more

Research: open source software in India, Kenya, Egypt, and Mexico
Read the new GitHub report on OSS in India, Kenya, Egypt, and Mexico. Available now in English, and in Spanish and Arabic later this year. ⌘ Read more

**Every year, on the 3rd Saturday of September the “Software Freedom Day” is celebrated.

In 🇵🇹 Portugal @ANSOL is going to celebrate with a #SoftwareFreedomDay in Oporto:

https://ansol.org/eventos/2022-09-17-software-freedom-day/**
Every year, on the 3rd Saturday of September the “Software Freedom Day” is celebrated.

In 🇵🇹 Portugal @ANSOL is going to celebrate with a #SoftwareFreedomDay in Oporto:

[ansol.org/eventos/202 … ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter August 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of August 2022.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the … ⌘ Read more

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

A script for Go dependency updates
I regularly update the dependencies of my blog software, a Go based project. Dependency updates are important because they can contain security fixes or fixes for bugs. ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: Prolongamos o prazo de inscrição nas IV #JornadasOpenSource até 7 de Set
Grande oportunidade de explorar, trocar ideias, experiências sobre gestão de software #OpenSource e quem sabe e iniciar novos projetos
👉Inscreva-se https://bit.ly/IVJornadasOS_Inscricoes
👉Programa https://bit.ly/BAD_IVJornadasOS
Prolongamos o prazo de inscrição nas IV #JornadasOpenSource até 7 de Set

Grande oportunidade de explorar, trocar ideias, experiências sobre g … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I never tried out any of the other clients except jenny with mutt. The best thing about yarn vs something like Mastodon is that its more promoted of the specification of twtxt files instead of server part. Twtxt can be hosted on some free static site host or some git server even so its really low resouces. Just a basic text file. As far as I know yarn is mostly just a web ui around twtxt and an extnetion to the specification to add some more usability and modern things. Anyone can join decentrilized network by having a twtxt file somewhere. If you want to support the specification of twtxt then that is really something most projects don’t do and they promote the server software mostly.

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

real world software development is a never-ending series of compromises Thoughts on why sometimes programming/software engineering discussions suck | Hacker News

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? 🤦‍♂️

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter July 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of July 2022.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom … ⌘ Read more

Microsoft’s “Revenue Bomb” of the early 1980s
The plan: Develop the same software for every computer platform they could find (including C64, Apple II, and UNIX). ⌘ Read more

Old content warning
Recently I implemented a setting in my blog software to disable the warning above posts older than one year. A setting that has its justification. ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Push Notification Openfire plugin 0.9.1 released
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of a bugfix release for the Push Notification plugin for Openfire!

This plugin adds support for sending push notifications to client software, as described in XEP-0357: “Push Notifications”.

[This update](https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/plugins/0.9.1/pushnotificatio … ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter June 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of June 2022.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom … ⌘ Read more

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

Erlang Solutions: Gaining a Competitive Advantage in Fintech From Your Choice of Tech Stack
In our recent white paper ‘Technology Trends in Financial Services 2022’, we explained the importance of software engineering for gaining a competitive advantage in the industry. Since the start of the year, a lot has occurred on a macro level strengthening our belief that modern financial services must be based on a solid technical foundation to deliver the user experiences and business rel … ⌘ Read more

Paul Schaub: Reproducible Builds – Telling of a Debugging Story
Reproducibility is an important tool to empower users. Why would a user care about that? Let me elaborate.

For a piece of software to be reproducible means that everyone with access to the software’s source code is able to build the binary form of it (e.g. the executable that gets distributed). What’s the matter? Isn’t that true for any project with accessible source code? Not at all. Reproducibility means that the r … ⌘ Read more

FSFE open letter: “The universal right to install any software on any device”
The Lunduke Journal has signed this letter and enthusiastically supports it. ⌘ Read more

Apple: “Sideloading is the DEVIL!”
Apple, Google, and others are attempting to demonize the act of installing software. We can’t let them succeed. ⌘ 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

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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter May 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of May 2022.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom.

… ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP & Google Summer of Code 2022: Welcome new contributors!

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The Google Summer of Code 2022 is about to lift off and coding starts soon! The XSF has not just been
accepted (again!) as a hosting organization for XMPP projects, we also can welcome two new contributors who will work on open-source software projects in the XMPP environment! We have updated our [designated web-page](h … ⌘ Read more

**Sem surpresa: o mais recente número do @JornalMapa está cheio de boas leituras, são 40 páginas com as quais vale a pena acompanhar este vosso trimestre.

Desta vez, o artigo final fala em Software Livre (tema que não é novo nestas páginas, mas sempre bom de ver na imprensa).**
Sem surpresa: o mais recente número do @JornalMapa está cheio de boas leituras, são 40 páginas com as quais vale a pena acompanhar este vosso trimestre.

Desta vez, o artigo final fala em S … ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: Amanhã, 26 de maio, entre as 12h e 13h, online, a @ESOP_PT vai ter mais uma sessão aberta: desta vez dirigida aos jovens profissionais que queiram fazer carreira no software open source.
Para aceder:
https://meet.jit.si/SessaoAbertaESOP_26deMaio_OpenSourceEJovensProfissionais
Amanhã, 26 de maio, entre as 12h e 13h, online, a @ESOP_PT vai ter mais uma sessão aberta: desta vez dirigida aos jovens profissionais que queiram fazer carreira no software open s … ⌘ 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

“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

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter April 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of April 2022.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bot … ⌘ 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

“Os sistemas e serviços de Software Livre permitem a reutilização, reaproveitamento e interoperabilidade de dispositivos. O direito universal de escolher livremente sistemas operativos, software e serviços é crucial para uma sociedade digital mais sustentável.”
“Os sistemas e serviços de Software Livre permitem a reutilização, reaproveitamento e interoperabilidade de dispositivos. O direito universal de escolher livremente sistemas operativos, software e serviços é crucial para uma sociedade digital mais su … ⌘ 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

Reflecting on my work
I have been a full-time software developer for over a year now. I’ve since settled in well in the job, and I’m getting along better and better, even if the topics are sometimes still quite complex and difficult to understand, especially when it comes to “historically grown” things. ⌘ Read more

Richard Stallman - “The state of the Free Software movement” - April 13, 2022
Free Software founder has choice words for Ubuntu, Apple. Announces a manual for GNU C. ⌘ 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

Salary Negotiation
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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

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.12.0 released
ÄNTLIGEN! It’s finally here! After 3 years of development and through some chaotic times, Prosody 0.12.0 is released!

What’s the significance of this release? Like many software projects, Prosody follows a “branch” development/release model. We frequently make minor releases with bug fixes and improvements from our stable branch, while we implement more adventurous changes in our development branch, ready for the next major release.

Well, this is one of those adventurous … ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter February 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of February 2022.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more a … ⌘ Read more

Documenting Microsoft’s funky attempts at porting software to UNIX
Listen now (15 min) | I was there for part of it. Trying to preserve that weird part of computing history. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Saving lives with Elixir
When you think about programming languages, you might not think about them literally changing people’s lives, but they do more often than you would expect. Elixir has empowered Linda Achieng and Sigu Mawa to build emergency software that is already saving lives in Kenya. What started with the death of a close friend, has expanded into an inspirational project, with Elixir being used to empower local com … ⌘ Read more

Writing free software is like painting. You should do it if you feel like it, or if you, yourself, get something out of it. The moment you start to feel that you are owed something is the moment that you should stop doing it, because what you do from then on is probably not going to be any good. Is it even worth working on FOSS anymore? | Hacker News

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

The Impacts of an Insecure Software Supply Chain
Today, software regularly integrates open-source code from third-party sources into applications. While this practice empowers developers to create more capable software in a shorter time frame, it brings with it the risk of introducing inadequately vetted code. How aware are we of the security of our open-source code? Most of us use pip or npm […]

The post [The Impacts of an Insecure Software Supply Chain](https://www.docker.com/blog/the-im … ⌘ Read more

Internally at these companies, there’s also no reason for developers to care about quality. It’s not rewarded by the managers. Ask HN: How do you explain the sloppiness of modern software? | Hacker News

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

Snikket: Server updates for ARM systems
We have a couple of important announcements relevant to people running the
Snikket server software on ARM devices, including Raspberry Pi. Systems using
ARM processors are increasingly popular for self-hosting due to their
increased efficiency, lower cost and minimal energy consumption.

The Snikket January 2022 server release was an
exciting release for us, but some users on ARM-based systems reported some
difficulties upgrading to … ⌘ Read more

Reducing security risk in open source software with GitHub Actions and OpenSSF Scorecards V4
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• 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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