Announcing the All In CHAOSS DEI Badging pilot initiative
Take part in All in for Maintainers’ new pilot program that helps open source project maintainers highlight ongoing efforts in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion within their communities. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, World Environment Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/05/environment.html #programming #project #devjournal

Funny Programming Pictures Part XXXV
I laughed no less than three times while putting this together. THREE TIMES I SAY. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, Day of UN Peacekeepers https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/29/peacekeepers.html #programming #project #devjournal

Saturday Gardening 27 May
Gardening guru Graham ‘Willow’ Williams answers your questions from 8.30am — 10am every Saturday on ABC Radio Canberra Saturday Breakfast. ⌘ Read more

The 2023 Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Survey is live!
Help quantify the state of enterprise open source by taking the 2023 OSPO survey. ⌘ Read more

Tasmanian poppy farmers receive an increase in pay and hectares grown
Tasmania’s poppy processors have released details of their contracts for the coming season. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, World Biodiversity Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/22/biodiv.html #programming #project #devjournal

Producing and harvesting wine grapes means everything to me
Riley is from Irymple, Victoria, Latji Latji Country. ⌘ Read more

Funny Programming Pictures Part XXXIII
I feel like mocking CSS and Agile today… ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, Nabka Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/15/nabka.html #programming #project #devjournal

How I used GitHub Copilot to build a browser extension
Here’s how, in seven steps, I built my first browser extension with GitHub Copilot—and my three major takeaways about learning and pair programming in the age of AI. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Graphs with Chart.js https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/10/chart-js.html #linux #programming #techtips

On my blog: Developer Diary, WWII Remembrance https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/08/remembrance.html #programming #project #devjournal

Funny Programming Pictures Part XXXI
(That’s 31 in normal numbers.) ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, International Workers’ Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/01/workers.html #programming #project #devjournal

Funny Programming Pictures Part XXX
Yep. XXX. Oooooh, boy! You know what that means! ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, Fashion Revolution Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/24/fashion.html #programming #project #devjournal

Saturday Gardening 22 April
Saturday Gardening 22 April ⌘ Read more

** of array programming, lightsabers and some thoughts on permacomputing **
A bit of this and that, some kind of mishmosh.

Over the last few weeks I’ve been reading a lot about array programming systems like J, K, Q, APL, and BQN. I’ve been intending to add a page to the wiki about them, but havent gotten to that yet. Consider this a little promise that I’ll do that sometime soon. I’m interested in array programming less because I think it’s particularl … ⌘ Read more

Historic family winery signs up all of its grape growers to sustainability program
Grape growers contracted by Australia’s oldest family owned winery have found signing up to a sustainability program has had financial, environmental and emotional benefits. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, Lena Massacre https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/17/lena.html #programming #project #devjournal

Funny Programming Pictures part XXIX
Doofenshmirtz, Excel, & ChatGPT. Oh, my. ⌘ Read more

Programming in the 1980s was the best…
… right? ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, Siblings Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/10/siblings.html #programming #project #devjournal

Erlang Solutions: You’ve been curious about LiveView, but you haven’t gotten into it
As a backend developer, I’ve spent most of my programming career away from frontend development. Whether it’s React/Elm for the web or Swift/Kotlin for mobile, these are fields of knowledge that fall outside of what I usually work with.

Nonetheless, I always wanted to have a tool at my disposal for building rich frontends. While the web seemed like the platform with the lowest bar … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Normalizing Image Type and Size https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/05/file-type-size.html #linux #programming #techtips

Funny Programming Pictures Part XXVIII
Because, sometimes, a picture is worth a thousand pull requests. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, Yuknoom Yich’aak K’ahk’ https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/03/yuknoom.html #programming #project #devjournal

On my blog: Mastodon’s API (The Pitfalls) https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/29/mastodon-api.html #mastodon #programming #techtips

Erlang Solutions: Here’s Why You Should Build Scalable and Concurrent Applications with Elixir
In today’s world, when dealing with high levels of system requests, you need applications that can handle them without slowing down. Here’s where Elixir comes in. Elixir is a programming language that is designed to create highly scalable and concurrent applications. Built on Erlang’s virtual machine (BEAM), it has been used for decades to build highly reliable … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, World Theatre Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/27/theatre.html #programming #project #devjournal

Google Bard is a bit too creative. In another chat, where I asked who “Jan-Lukas Else” is, it also said that I developed the “Quarkus programming language”. But this clearly shows the limitations of language models and the current state of AI. Just because the answers sound clever, they are not always right. ⌘ Read more

Funny Programming Pictures Part XXVII
Lunduke-is-Sick-Edition ⌘ Read more

Google Bard is a bit too creative. In another chat, where I asked who “Jan-Lukas Else” is, it also said that I developed the “Quarkus programming language”. But this clearly shows the limitations of language models and the current state of AI. Just because the answers sound clever, they are not always right. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, International Day of Happiness https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/20/happiness.html #programming #project #devjournal

Is the potato the best vegetable?
Waxy or floury. Duck fat or oil. What is the best all round potato and should you keep them in the fridge? ⌘ Read more

Introducing Activating Developers and the new Digital Public Goods Open Source Community Manager Program
The Social Impact, Tech for Social Good team is launching a new Open Source Community Manager Program to support digital public goods. This is part of their new Activating Developers initiative. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, Aztec New Year (Belated) https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/13/aztec.html #programming #project #devjournal

Gardening Talkback March 11 2023
Gardening Talkback March 11 2023 ⌘ Read more

Funny Programming Pictures Part XXVI
Don’t worry. At least one makes fun of Mozilla. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, European Day of the Righteous https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/06/righteous.html #programming #project #devjournal

Fanservice
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On my blog: Developer Diary, Marathi Language Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/27/marathi.html #programming #project #devjournal

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP at Google Summer of Code 2023

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XSF and Google Summer of Code 2023

The XSF has been accepted again as hosting organisation at the Google Summer of Code 2023!

Now both students and open-source newcomers are invited to consider and review a participation and
prepare for the application phase. We would like to invite you to review XMPP … ⌘ Read more

Funny Programming Pictures Part XXV
Who knew there were this many Roman Numerals!? ⌘ Read more

Responsible AI pair programming with GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot boosts developer productivity, but using it responsibly still requires good developer and DevSecOps practices. ⌘ Read more

New professional website
I’m always programming on my blogging software, so today I decided to do something different. With the help of ChatGPT, which wrote the basic HTML and CSS template, I created a new resume website, which is basically a copy of everything I put on my LinkedIn profile. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, World Day of Social Justice https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/20/social-justice.html #programming #project #devjournal

** Moon maker **
I recently re-read Peter Naur’s“Programming as theory building”. Afterwards I set out to write my own text editor. The paper posits that it’s really hard, if not impossible, to fully communicate about a program and sort of gestures at the futility of documentation…what spun around inside my head as I read was that our primary programming medium — text files — is silly. Like, some folks would totally 100% s … ⌘ Read more

Funny BSD Pictures
AKA Funny Programming Pictures Part XXIV ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, World Radio Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/13/radio.html #programming #project #devjournal

Funny Programming Pictures Part XXIII
Brace yourself. Funny pictures are coming. ⌘ Read more

On the topic of Programming Languages and Telemetry. I’m kind of curious… Do any of these programming language and their toolchains collect telemetry on their usage and effectively “spy” on your development?

• Python
  
• C
  
• C++
  
• Java
  
• C#
  
• Visual Basic
  
• Javascript
  
• SQL
  
• Assembly Language
  
• PHP

Erlang Solutions: Elixir, 7 steps to start your journey
Read this post in Spanish.

Let’s talk about Elixir!

Elixir is a functional programming language created by José Valim to build concurrent and scalable systems. It is defined as:

“a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications”.

https://elixir-lang.org/

Its first version was released in 2012. Since then, n … ⌘ Read more

How did the very first software get programmed?
I mean. Think about it. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, Day against FGM https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/06/no-fgm.html #programming #project #devjournal

Funny Programming Pictures Part XXII
Ok. Not ALL of them are about programming… ⌘ Read more

10 comics about Linux and programming and stuff.
I have a disease where I can’t stop telling Linux jokes. Doctor says it’s terminal. ⌘ Read more

**This is how every news program should start, what political interviews first question should be about, the first impact assessment to every decision that is made.

The world knows how disastrous >1.5C is, pretends to be doing what is needed to avoid it, but we’re heading to 2°C.**
This is how every news program should start, what political interviews first question should be about, the first impact assessment to every decision that is made.

The world knows how disastrous >1.5C is, pretends to be doing what i … ⌘ Read more

Skilling for the future: How GitHub is advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion within open source communities
In the coming months, we’re scaling, expanding, and launching new programming to further DEI within open source communities. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, Fred Korematsu Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/30/korematsu.html #programming #project #devjournal

Funny Programming Pictures Part XXI
Roman Numerals are nifty. ⌘ Read more

My code is still a mess, but I’m learning
I taught myself Go (and programming in general) by learning by doing. I learned by making a lot of mistakes and after noticing them, doing the necessary research. My Go code is probably a big mess, but it’s so satisfying, after not touching some code for a while, to do a major rewrite and improve the code with everything I’ve learned since the last time. ⌘ Read more

My motivation to work on GoBlog isn’t always the same. Sometimes I don’t feel like programming in my free time, so the most I do is some bug fixing when I find broken things. Sometimes I just have no time to work on new features or improvements. But since yesterday evening I feel a new push and have completely rewritten the plugin system to make it much more flexible (and I like flexibility). I had to break compatibility with existing plugins, but given the small user base and the limited scope of what plugins could … ⌘ Read more

Introducing the GitHub Bug Bounty swag store
We’re excited to share the newest addition to our GitHub Bug Bounty Program! ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, World Freedom Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/23/freedom.html #programming #project #devjournal

Funny Programming Pictures Part XX
More Roman Numerals than you can shake a stick at. ⌘ Read more

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

Funny Programming Pictures Part XIX
It’s Friday! So let’s look at some funny, nerdy pictures! ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, Hōonkō https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/09/hoonko.html #programming #project #devjournal

On my blog: Developer Diary, National Science Fiction Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/02/scifi.html #programming #project #devjournal

Funny Programming Pictures Part XVIII
Because it’s the end of 2022, and we deserve a good laugh. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Journal, Boxing Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/26/boxing.html #programming #project #devjournal

What’s with all the ducks?
What in the world do rubber ducks have to do with programming? And why were they everywhere at GitHub Universe? A lot of you asked, so I’m here to help explain. ⌘ Read more

it’s really funny when people tag jimmy wales on twitter when they don’t like some of the content on wikipedia. it’s like someone would tag Nat Friedman when they find a bug in a program hosted there

GitHub Gives 2022: Creating positive, lasting contributions in our communities
This year, we took GitHub Gives, our company-wide giving campaign, to new heights and wanted to share our learnings to provide best practices in programming a successful hybrid giving campaign for employees. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Journal, International Human Solidarity Eve https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/19/solidarity.html #programming #project #devjournal

Tutorial: Getting started with generics - The Go Programming Language – Okay @xuu@txt.sour.is I quite like Go’s generics now 🤣 After going through this myself I like the semantics and the syntax. I’m glad they did a lot of work on this to keep it simple to both understand and use (just like the rest of Go) 👌 #GoLang #Generics

ChatGPT is good, but it’s not that good 🤣 I asked it to write a program in Go that performs double ratcheting and well the code is total garbage 😅 – Its only as good as the inputs it was trained on 🤣 #OpenAI #GPT3

On my blog: Developer Journal, Kanji Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/12/kanji.html #programming #project #devjournal

I started reading the proposal to introduce operator overloading in Go version 2 that I like to see: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/27605 Now a few hours later I ended up at this gem. Write a program that makes 2+2=5: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/28786/write-a-program-that-makes-2-2-5 There are some awesone solutions. :-)

On my blog: Developer Journal, Repeal Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/05/repeal.html #programming #project #devjournal

GPT-3 is crazy 🤯
Do you want to read why Go is a great programming language? ⌘ Read more

GPT-3 is crazy 🤯
Do you want to read why Go is a great programming language? ⌘ Read more

GitHub, accessibility, and the disability divide
We just published our vision for GitHub accessibility at accessibility.github.com. Here’s the TL;DR: the prime directive of the GitHub accessibility program is to empower people with disabilities to build cool technology. ⌘ Read more

It helps with recruiting and sustaining a program. It takes time. Ohio State wasn’t built in a season.

I’m just glad their in a bowl game. Gophers sucked for many years, its great to see the program get back on track.

Erlang Solutions: Advent of Code 2022 – Every Puzzle Solved in Erlang

Christmas is getting closer and with that, the annual Advent of Code begins. For those who do not know, Advent of Code is a fun and inclusive event which provides a new programming puzzle every day. The fun is that these puzzles can be solved in any programming language and are accessible for varying levels of coding experience and skills. The real test is in your problem-solving. This year, we’ll be solving each of the problems in … ⌘ Read more

The SCREAM Test
One of Lunduke’s Super-Amazing™ Programming Tips ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Journal, Lā Kūʻokoʻa https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/11/28/kalahui.html #programming #project #devjournal

BREAKING: Ubuntu expands in-Terminal advertising program
Users can now enjoy advertisements right from their Command Line. ⌘ Read more

In reply to: chreke’s blog - Little Languages Are The Future Of Programming

The idea is that as you start to find patterns in your application, you can encode them in a little language—this language would then allow you to express these patterns in a more compact manner than would be possible by other means of abstraction. Not only could this buck the trend of ever-growing applications, it would … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Journal, Mayflower Compact https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/11/21/mayflower.html #programming #project #devjournal

Tell me you write go like javascript without telling me you write go like javascript:

import "runtime/debug"

var Commit = func() string {
  if info, ok := debug.ReadBuildInfo(); ok {
    for _, setting := range info.Settings {
      if setting.Key == "vcs.revision" {
        return setting.Value
      }
    }
  }

  return "" 
}()

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/11/14/3-ways-embed-commit-hash-go-programs#3__using_runtime_debug_package

Tell me you write go like javascript without telling me you write go like javascript:

import "runtime/debug"

var Commit = func() string {
  if info, ok := debug.ReadBuildInfo(); ok {
    for _, setting := range info.Settings {
      if setting.Key == "vcs.revision" {
        return setting.Value
      }
    }
  }

  return "" 
}()

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/11/14/3-ways-embed-commit-hash-go-programs#3__using_runtime_debug_package

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

new version (1.0.4) of introduction to uxn programming e-book: launcher and raw runes | https://compudanzas.net/introduction_to_uxn_programming_book.html

Why more companies are investing in open source program offices
By our estimation at GitHub, over 30% of Fortune 100 companies have now implemented OSPOs. Here’s what that means for open source. ⌘ Read more

Funny Programming Pictures Part XVII
Because larger roman numerals are more betterer. ⌘ Read more