The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter September 2023
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of September 2023.
Many thanks to all our 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 be using, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? … ⌘ Read more
A developer’s guide to open source LLMs and generative AI
Open source generative AI projects are a great way to build new AI-powered features and apps.
The post A developer’s guide to open source LLMs and generative AI appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more
Announcing Docker Compose Watch GA Release
Docker Compose Watch, a tool to improve the inner loop of application development, is now generally available. We built Docker Compose Watch to smooth away these workflow papercuts. We have learned from many people using our open source Docker Compose project for local development. Now we are natively addressing common workflow friction we observe, like the use case of hot reload for frontend development. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, Batik Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/10/02/batik.html #programming #project #devjournal
A better Postman alternative: Hoppscotch
I used to use Postman for both personal and work projects. It was great for making HTTP requests without having to create curl commands. But now, Postman requires a login, which I hate. I don’t understand why a login is needed for such a simple tool. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, Unification of Nepal https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/09/25/nepal.html #programming #project #devjournal
The GitHub Security Lab’s journey to disclosing 500 CVEs in open source projects
The GitHub Security Lab audits open source projects for security vulnerabilities and helps maintainers fix them. Recently, we passed the milestone of 500 CVEs disclosed. Let’s take a trip down memory lane with a review of some noteworthy CVEs!
The post [The GitHub Security Lab’s journey to disclosing 500 CVEs in open source projects](https://github.blog/2023-09-21-the-github-s … ⌘ Read more
Snikket: State of Snikket 2023: Funding
As promised in our ‘State of Snikket 2023’ overview post, and teased at the end of our first update post about app development, this post in the series is about that thing most of us open-source folk love to hate… money.
We are an open-source project, and not-for-profit. Making money is not our primary goal, but like any business we have upstream expenses to pay - to compensate for the time and specialist work we need to implement the Snikket vision. To do that, we need income.
T … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, World Water Monitoring Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/09/18/water.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Diary, Nayrouz https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/09/11/nayrouz.html #programming #project #devjournal
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter August 2023
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of August 2023.
Many thanks to all our 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 be using, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, Labor Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/09/04/labor.html #programming #project #devjournal
10 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Projects
Learn how to optimize your usage of GitHub Projects to plan and track your work from idea to production.
The post 10 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Projects appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, Kaqchikel Rebellion https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/08/28/kaqchikel.html #programming #project #devjournal
Unleashing GitHub Codespaces templates to ignite your development
Learn how to leverage templating features in GitHub Codespaces to streamline your project setup, improve consistency, and simplify collaboration within your development team.
The post Unleashing GitHub Codespaces templates to ignite your development appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more
Ugh, ffs–the datasette project just added #ChatGPT garbage. Another seemingly nice piece of software and project that I need to stop using.
I guess I can be thankful they self-identify.
On my blog: Developer Diary, Haitian Revolution https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/08/21/haiti.html #programming #project #devjournal
Release Radar · July 2023 Edition
After the last Release Radar, I promised the next one wouldn’t be far away, so here it is. This is the low down on some of the best open source projects that shipped major version updates in July. There’s lots of cool stuff from natural language processing, to APIs, money, and SDKs. I won’t spoil […]
The post Release Radar · July 2023 Edition appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, Gerakan Pramuka https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/08/14/gerakan-pramuka.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Project Ballad, part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/08/12/project-ballad-3.html #freeculture #bookclub
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter June & July 2023
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of June & July 2023.
Many thanks to all our 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 be using, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter te … ⌘ Read more
Four tips to keep your GitHub Actions workflows secure
Researchers from Purdue and NCSU have found a large number of command injection vulnerabilities in the workflows of projects on GitHub. Follow these four tips to keep your GitHub Actions workflows secure.
The post Four tips to keep your GitHub Actions workflows secure appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more
Snikket: State of Snikket 2023
This is our first blog post for quite a while, and the last few have all been technical updates of various kinds about the Snikket software. In fact it’s been almost two years since the last post that gave a general progress update on the Snikket project itself, so let’s fix that!
You’ll be pleased to hear that Snikket is very much alive, and although there hasn’t been much of a show to see here, a bunch of stuff has been going on backstage.
We plan to catch you up with our progres … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, Purple Heart https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/08/07/purple-heart.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Project Ballad, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/08/05/project-ballad-2.html #freeculture #bookclub
A checklist and guide to get your repository collaboration-ready
In the world of software development, collaboration can make the difference between a brittle last-minute release and a reliable, maintainable, pain-free project. Whether you’ve been coding for a day or a decade, your colleagues are there to help strengthen your work. But they can only help if you’ve given them the tools to do so. ⌘ Read more
Build and Deploy a LangChain-Powered Chat App with Docker and Streamlit
We are happy to have another great AI/ML story to share from our community. In this blog post, MA Raza, Ph.D., provides a guide to building and deploying a LangChain-powered chat app with Docker and Streamlit. This article reinforces the value that Docker brings to AI/ML projects — the speed and consistency of deployment, the […] ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, First U.S. Patent https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/07/31/patent.html #programming #project #devjournal
https://minimamente.com/project/magic/ CSS effects
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Project Ballad, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/07/29/project-ballad-1.html #freeculture #bookclub
Bad Map Projection: ABS(Longitude)
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Paul Schaub: PGPainless meets the Web-of-Trust
We are very proud to announce the release of PGPainless-WOT, an implementation of the OpenPGP Web of Trust specification using PGPainless.
The release is available on the Maven Central repository.
The work on this project begun a bit over a year ago as an [NLnet project which recei … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, Simón BolÃvar Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/07/24/bolivar.html #programming #project #devjournal
Ignite Realtime Blog: JmxWeb plugin for Openfire 0.9.1 release
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of the JmxWeb plugin for Openfire.
This plugin provides a web based platform for managing and monitoring Openfire via JMX
This release is a maintenance release. It adds translations and fixes one bug. More details are available in the changelog.
Your instance of Openf … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Push Notification Openfire plugin 0.9.2 released
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of the Push Notification plugin for Openfire.
This plugin enables clients to register for push notifications.
This release is a maintenance release. It adds translations and a configuration page. More details are available in the changelog
Yo … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Search Openfire plugin 0.7.4 release!
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of the Search plugin for Openfire.
This plugin adds features to Openfire that makes it easier for users to find each-other.
This release is a maintenance release. It adds translations. More details are available in the changelog
Your instance of Openfire should automatically … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, Yongle Emperor https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/07/17/yongle.html #programming #project #devjournal
Release Radar · Spring 2023 Edition
It’s been a while since we’ve published our Release Radar. You can blame IRL conferences coming back, getting influenza, and being struck down by the weather. But those are just me problems. While I’ve been down or travelling, the community has been hard at work shipping new releases and new projects. So, we thought we’d […] ⌘ Read more
GitHub CLI project command is now generally available!
Level up your use of GitHub Projects on the command line and in GitHub Actions with the new project CLI command. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, Wyoming Statehood https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/07/10/wyoming.html #programming #project #devjournal
Las Vegas Sphere launches Flying Toaster Screensaver after 15 minutes of inactivity
Windows 3.11 and After Dark confirmed to be software behind $2 Billion dollar project. ⌘ Read more
Mathieu Pasquet: Finding a new home for poezio and slixmpp
After more than a decade of starting the Poezio project, and more than half after starting the slixmpp fork or SleekXMPP, louiz’ does not have any day-to-day involvement in them.
Nonetheless, he has provided us with the space to host repositories and bug trackers (redmine at first, then gitlab), done the required sysadmin work every time it was needed, and has also paid ever … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, Pickett’s Charge https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/07/03/pickett.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Diary, World Refrigeration Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/26/refrigeration.html #programming #project #devjournal
Bridging code and community
Explore the impact of non-code contributions—and why they are often undervalued, the challenges of using open source in regulated environments, and the art of managing projects at the scale of Kubernetes, now on The ReadME Podcast. ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net The hackathon project that I did recently used openai and embedded the response info into the prompt. So basically i would search for the top 3 most relevant search results to feed into the prompt and the AI would summarize to answer their question.
On my blog: Developer Diary, Juneteenth https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/19/juneteenth.html #programming #project #devjournal
Make your GitHub projects more accessible with accessibility-alt-text-bot
The accessibility-alt-text-bot leaves automated reminders in a comment when a user shares an image without providing meaningful alt text. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, World Day Against Child Labor https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/12/child-labor.html #programming #project #devjournal