Protecting Internal Web Resources

TL;DR: This blog post is a write-up of the process I went through to setup a set of internal web resources and apps for a small company I am running in my spare time ( providing a Single-Sign-On / SSO experience for internal users with web applications protected by flexible access policies including single and multi-factor authentication / two-factor authentication or 2FA).

As I mentioned in the TL;DR above, I run a small software/technology com … ⌘ 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

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

Cemu, the leading Wii U emulator, is now free software. Linux support is in progress. https://github.com/cemu-project/Cemu

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

@movq@www.uninformativ.de From my limited experiences in two companies I can anedoctic tell you, that what we developers told our support work mates after analyzing things and what they replied back to the enquirers was not always the same. That also happend when we gave them answers in written form. Always super nice support folks, no a single doubt, but their basic technical knowledge was pretty much non-existent. And plenty of them didn’t even really know the softwares they’re supposed to support. Granted, those were not easy programs, one was indeed super complex. But if they use them on a daily basis for years one would expect that they know them quite well. At least the main features and workflows. We also often had to tell them basic stuff several times, which was quite a bit frustrating for both sides.

But, I was super glad, that we had them in the front row. You wouldn’t believe what crap queries they had to deal with and what utter bullshit they kept off our shoulders. Sometimes people wrote really offensive e-mails for no reason. Holy moly. I wouldn’t want to trade with them, not in a hundred years. Lots of my developer work mates, however, didn’t value our first level support at all. I mean, I totally understand, that after telling the same things over and over and over and over again it pisses you off, but treating them in a way they feel like shit, doesn’t help either. It only makes things worse. I had the impression that there was a slight war between development and support.

One thing that was totally stupid, is that the POs didn’t listen to improvements and suggestions on how to make things easier for the support team and also all our users. I mean, support has to deal with this software all day long and also get the same questions about workflows and stuff that’s too complicated or unintuitive. So a lot of things were really low hanging fruit to improve everybody’s live. But when they suggested anything, the POs always declined it, nah, it’s the support’s job. Period. A few times I teamed up with the support work mates and told the POs the same, the support team was suggesting and then it was accepted without hesitation. So that clearly shows there really was a two-tier society.

In my current project we don’t have a support team, so we need to handle all the support queries ourselves. In that regard I miss the old project. But luckily, it’s basically just other developers who are needing our help, so that’s fairly okay.

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

Chinese firm aiming to break US dominance in chip design software gets IPO approval at home
Empyrean Technology aims to become a global leader in EDA software by 2030, in a market currently led by US firms Cadence, Synopsis and Mentor Graphics. ⌘ 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