Who can fill the shoes of China’s Iron Lady Sun Chunlan on Politburo?
For two years she has ruled the country’s Covid-19 response with an iron fist, but at 72 the vice-premier is expected to step down at this year’s party congress. ⌘ Read more
Covid-19 in China: latest Beijing outbreak ‘easing’ after millions tested
Cluster linked to Heaven Supermarket bar emerged days after the city had begun lifting curbs. ⌘ Read more
Shanghai reopening: Disneyland ready for visitors once more as theme park awaits green light after Covid-19 lockdown
A partial reopening of Shanghai Disney Resort, which comprises Disneyland, Disneytown, two themed hotels, Wishing Star Park and the Blue Sky Boulevard, attracted hundreds of local visitors on Thursday. ⌘ Read more
Anthony Fauci, Joe Biden’s top Covid-19 adviser, tests positive
The US top scientist, 81, is experiencing mild symptoms, and will work from home while he recovers. ⌘ Read more
Coronavirus: New Zealand to eliminate pre-departure Covid-19 tests for incoming passengers
Scrapping the requirement would bring New Zealand into line with a growing number of countries that have done away with Covid tests. ⌘ Read more
Can Sri Lanka tourism recover from ‘triple whammy’ of terrorism, Covid-19 and economic crisis?
The Easter Sunday bombings and the pandemic lashed the sector from 2019-2021. Now, unrest arising from economic duress has further hurt tourism. ⌘ Read more
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The Lunduke Journal Podcast - May 31, 2022
Listen now (19 min) | Every “Linux Sucks” video, in order, all in one place. For the first time. Ever. ⌘ Read more
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yklkgcjCKEk watching “C from scratch” ep 19
Math support in Markdown
Mathematical expressions are key to information sharing amongst engineers, scientists, data scientists, and mathematicians. Today we are pleased to announce that math expressions can be rendered in Markdown on GitHub using $$ as a delimiter for code blocks with math content or the $ delimiter for inline math expressions. ⌘ Read more
How we’re continuing to enable all developers to build
Learn about what GitHub is doing to make their products more inclusive, and what’s next. ⌘ Read more
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The Lunduke Journal Podcast - May 16, 2022
Listen now (19 min) | How (and why) to watch Linux Sucks 2022 ⌘ Read more
Sharing security expertise through CodeQL packs (Part I)
Introducing CodeQL packs to help you codify and share your knowledge of vulnerabilities. ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Journal Podcast - April 19, 2022
Listen now (16 min) | Why no ChromeOS phone? ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Using Elixir and WhatsApp to Fight COVID19
Introduction:Discover the inside story of how the World Health Organisation’s WhatsApp COVID-19 hotline service was launched in 5 days using Elixir. At the beginning of March 2020, Turn.io launched the world’s first WhatsApp-based COVID-19 response for the South African Ministry of Health. The service was designed, deployed, stress-tested, and launched.
In 5 days. It scaled, before any kind of public launch, to 450K unique … ⌘ Read more
SUSE buys itself a “COVID 19 Hero” award. Not joking.
Also buys their CEO “Woman of the year” award. Also not joking. ⌘ Read more
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How Docker containers are supporting the COVID-19 genomic monitoring effort
This is a guest blog post from Dr. Kelsey Florek and Curtis Kapsak. A video presentation of this post from Docker’s Community All-Hands can be found here. Dr. Kelsey Florek is the Senior Genomics and Data Scientist at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene and a steering committee member of the State Public Health Bioinformatics […]
The post [How Docker containers are supporting the CO … ⌘ Read more
#pixelblog is slowly coming together with support for posting images and simple theming
** A quick and dirty intro to the .pbm file format **
I’ve been fiddling with writing programs that draw pictures. I started with PostScript for this, but have since moved to writing programs that output in the .pbm format.
My goal here is to write noise to a .pbm file.
A .pbm file is the lowest common denominator among image file formats.
An example of the format,
”`hljs plaintext
P1
5 5
1 0 1 0 1
0 1 0 1 0
1 0 1 … ⌘ Read more”`
Reducing security risk in open source software with GitHub Actions and OpenSSF Scorecards V4
We’re excited to announce the V4 release of the OpenSSF’s Scorecard project in partnership with Google. ⌘ Read more
🙌 Liked: Virtual Pet Jam - itch.io ⌘ Read more
Rapid Test Results
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** Introducing Guava **
I’ve been fascinated by Forth and concatenative programming for a while now. I can’t remember how I initially stumbled in to it, but once I got going I’ve been unable to stop. I’m a wee bit in love with it.
Wanting to play a bit with implementing my own spin on things and having opinions about tooling, I picked up a little scripting language called [Ripen](https://felix.plesoia … ⌘ Read more
Future of Yarn.social
What?Today I’m going to talk about Yarn.social’s future, a roadmap into where we’re going and thinking. I’ll also write a little about it’s history of where we came from and highlight how Yarn.social is different and in my opinion better.
For those of you new to my blog or Yarn.social; Yarn.social is a decentralised social media platform, a microBlogging platform. It was originally crea … ⌘ Read more
The effect of large-scale anti-contagion policies on the COVID-19 pandemic | Nature ⌘ Read more
Mark emails me all the time with bugs he found in GoBlog (some that I would never have found myself) and features he would like to see (e.g. better display of Brid.gy webmentions). I take it as motivation and try to improve GoBlog in a way that it is useful for others as well. And I think there is a good progress. ⌘ Read more
In case you missed it, GitHub Education at Universe 2021!
A recap of all the GitHub Education news from Universe 2021, including the new Intro to Web Dev Experience. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Tweets from 11/15 to 11/19 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/11/19/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
What’s new from GitHub Changelog? October 2021 recap
A public beta of the new GitHub Issues, a “security manager” role for organizations, a command palette beta, and lots more. ⌘ Read more
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🙌 Liked: Famicom Party ⌘ Read more