@prologic@twtxt.net I am seeing a problem in which not-so-active users, such as myself, are ending up having a blank “Recent twts from…” under their profiles because, I assume, the cache long expired. What can be done about it? Business personalities such as myself can’t be around here that often! Could something be implemented so that, say, the last 10 or 20 twts are always visible under one’s profile? Neep-gren!
GitHub’s top 10 blog posts of 2021
As the year winds down, we’re highlighting some of the incredible work from GitHub’s engineers, product teams, and security researchers. ⌘ Read more
10 Stories that Rocked the Tech Industry in 2021
From the Apple App Store to Bill Gates’ poop, it’s been a pretty nutty year. ⌘ Read more
The 10 Awesomest Linux stories of 2021
These Linux news stories from 2021 will, like, totally make your head explode. ⌘ Read more
Binary 101
I only know 10 binary jokes. Here’s half of them. ⌘ Read more
old school dinner rolls [[https://smittenkitchen.com/2021/10/old-school-dinner-rolls/]] #links #food
Write more secure code with the OWASP Top 10 Proactive Controls
This lesser-known OWASP project aims to help developers prevent vulnerabilities from being introduced in the first place. ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Windows 1.0 : Not as bad as you’d think
Multitasking. Virtual Memory. Tiled window manager. Turns out the very first version of Windows (from 1985) actually has some good points. ⌘ Read more
How to run Windows 3.1 software on Windows 10 & 11 (64bit) & Linux
Because… because… why not? ⌘ Read more
7 unique software collaboration features in GitHub Discussions
Here are a few ways our teams use GitHub Discussions internally to build community, simplify workflows, and get key insights into our work. ⌘ Read more
Make your monorepo feel small with Git’s sparse index
The new sparse index feature makes it feel like you are working in a small repository when working in a focused portion of a monorepo. ⌘ Read more
10 GitHub Actions resources to bookmark from the basics to CI/CD
Tips on how to get started using GitHub Actions and resources to learn more about making it work for you. ⌘ Read more
10 personal finance lessons that changed my life ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Short Fiction — The Gevkahahal https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/31/gevkahahal.html #freeculture #creativecommons #fiction #horror
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Occupy This Novel!, Part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/30/occupy2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Tweets from 10/25 to 10/29 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/10/29/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
13 short and scary games plus source to play (or hack) this Halloween 🎃
It’s that time of year again where I like to share seasonally spooktacular games plus source code—a goldmine of material for (a) those looking for coffee-break entertainment, (b) those interested in learning more about game ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Terratin Incident https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/28/terratin.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Everything new from Universe 2021
Since last year’s GitHub Universe, we’ve shipped more than 20,000 improvements to GitHub for developers, open source communities, and enterprise teams. Here’s a comprehensive overview of what we’re announcing at Universe this week. ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Journal Podcast - Episode 8
Listen now (10 min) | New games ported to old computer platforms! ⌘ Read more
A peek inside some of the top games from Ludum Dare 49
The 49th Ludum Dare game jam just wrapped up with almost 3000 entries. Here’s a peek at some of the highest-rated entries that you can play, plus their source code that you can poke around ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Developer Journal, Intersex Awareness Eve https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/25/intersex.html #programming #project #devjournal
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Occupy This Novel!, Part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/23/occupy1.html #freeculture #bookclub
GitHub Actions for security and compliance
GitHub Actions can automate several common security and compliance tasks, even if your CI/CD pipeline is managed by another tool. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Tweets from 10/18 to 10/22 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/10/22/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Mudd’s Passion https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/21/passion.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
GitHub Marketplace welcomes its 10,000th action
GitHub Marketplace just passed 10,000 published actions! Learn about contributing to this growing open source ecosystem. ⌘ Read more
Diversity, inclusion, and belonging at GitHub in 2021
In the past two years, GitHub has doubled in size, welcoming more than 760 new Hubbers in 2021 alone. This past year we particularly focused on our goal of making GitHub more equitable. We saw growth in our diversity representation, whose population increased at a higher rate than the company itself. ⌘ Read more
What’s new from GitHub Changelog? September 2021 recap
Catch up on 44 ships, including a colorblind-accessible theme, a public README.md for organizations, and customization of code review settings. ⌘ Read more
‘Trump filed a lawsuit Monday in DC District Court against the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection and the National Archives in an effort to keep records from his presidency secret by claiming executive privilege.’ — CNN Politics
That only increases one’s curiosity about what’s in them.
Apple Event for 18 October 2021, 10:00 PDT, 13:00 EDT begins. Commentary will stream as replies to this twt. I might miss things here and there, as I will also be on a work meeting from 13:00 to 14:00 EDT.
Meet the GitHub Universe hosts, and start building your schedule
We sat down with Universe hosts Lorena Mesa and Jarryd McCree for a quick Q&A to help you make the most out of your conference experience this year. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Developer Journal, Alaska Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/18/alaska.html #programming #project #devjournal
On the blog: Let’s Fix…Facebook https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/17/facebook.html #lets-#fix #facebook #socialmedia
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Lightbringer, Part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/16/lightbringer2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Tweets from 10/11 to 10/15 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/10/15/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
💾 Save the date for GitHub Game Off 2021
Game Off is an annual game jam (or “hackathon for building games”) that’s a little different from most—it lasts for the entire month of November—not just a weekend or a few days. It’s the perfect ⌘ Read more
Spent 10 minutes to unsubscribe from all youtube channels. What a set of yearsful junk.
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Once Upon a Planet https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/14/once-upon.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Student developer resources you won’t find in the classroom
Heading back to school? Did you just graduate? The GitHub Education Stream Team (GEST) is sharing resources, tools, and more to help emerging developers land a job. Student leaders from around the world are creating and hosting shows to grow the tech community and share information you won’t find in the classroom. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Using git to Count Changed Words https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/13/words-changed.html #programming #techtips #blog #git
In honor of Windows 11… here’s a comic about Windows 10.
And installing updates. ⌘ Read more
Apply now for GitHub Universe 2021 micro-mentoring
As part of our ongoing commitment to ensure GitHub’s conferences are accessible and inclusive to people from all walks of life, we’re offering 30-minute, 1:1 micro-mentoring sessions with GitHub employees. ⌘ Read more
GitHub security update: revoking weakly-generated SSH keys
On September 28, 2021, we received notice from the developer Axosoft regarding a vulnerability in a dependency of their popular git GUI client - GitKraken. An underlying issue with a dependency, called `keypair`, resulted in the GitKraken client generating weak SSH keys. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Developer Journal, National Coming Out Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/11/ncod.html #programming #project #devjournal
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Lightbringer, Part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/09/lightbringer.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Tweets from 10/04 to 10/08 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/10/08/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Release Radar · September 2021 Edition
The Northern Hemisphere has hit fall, and the southern is starting to warm into summer. September has been a busy time for our community. Maintainers have been getting their repositories ready for Hacktoberfest, joining us ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Magicks of Megas-Tu https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/07/megas-tu.html #scifi #startrek #closereading