I realized my twtxt client isn’t validating what it pulls once it gets a valid response when a domain started returning js-heavy parking pages for every URL. Oops. Weekend project, I guess. 🤦🏻
Paul Schaub: Creating an OpenPGP Web-of-Trust Implementation – A Series
I am excited to announce that PGPainless will receive funding by NGI Assure to develop an implementation of the Web-of-Trust specification proposal!
The Web-of-Trust (WoT) serves as an e … ⌘ Read more
The ReadME Project Q&A: What you need to know about teaching technical skills
Teaching is a great way to not only help others but to better learn a topic yourself. ⌘ Read more
RT by @mind_booster: Fun conversation with @creativecommons about our All The Music project, #copyright building blocks, #music, #creativity, #melodies, @GeorgeHarrison, @katyperry, @ledzeppelin, @edsheeran, and how all musicians stand on the shoulders of prior musical giants.
https://anchor.fm/creativecommons/episodes/Damien-Riehl–Noah-Rubin-of-All-The-Music-e1i2d86
Fun conversation with @creativecommons about our All The Music project, [#copyright]( … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter April 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of April 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 bot … ⌘ Read more
Bad Map Projection: Madagascator
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Bad Map Projection: Madagascator
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Best practices to keep your projects secure on GitHub
These days software is subject to an ever-changing threat landscape. Check out the many ways you can keep your projects secure on GitHub today. ⌘ Read more
Removing the stigma of a CVE
Do you worry that a CVE will hurt the reputation of your project? In reality, CVEs are a tracking number, and nothing more. Here’s how we think of them at GitHub. ⌘ Read more
The wild events that nearly took down the QB64 project (but, thankfully, didn’t)
A story of crazy drama within an amazing Open Source project. ⌘ Read more
Codespaces for multi-repository and monorepo scenarios
We’re releasing exciting improvements that will streamline your Codespaces experience when working with multi-repository projects and monorepos. ⌘ Read more
Release Radar · March 2022 Edition
Each month, we highlight open source projects that have shipped major updates. These include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend projects. Here are our top staff picks on projects that shipped major version releases in March. Babylon.js 5.0 We featured Babylon.js in the November 2020 Release Radar. Since then, Babylon.js has come […] ⌘ Read more
sometimes i think i should return to a cleaner state of mind, abandon all big never-to-be-finished projects, and write simple text-processing utilities on a raspberry pi running plan 9, improvising fractile jazz over a lonely lake and spend most of my remaining time meditating.
How Dependabot empowers you to keep your projects secure
We want to take away the pain and effort of keeping your code secure, so check out how Dependabot empowers developers to keep to their projects secure. ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.8.0 released!
Earlier today, version 1.8.0 of the Openfire REST API plugin was released. This version adds a new endpoints for readiness, liveliness and cluster status!
The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternatively, you can download the plugin directly, from [the plugin’s archive page](https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/plugin-arc … ⌘ Read more
How to secure your end-to-end supply chain on GitHub
Securing your projects is no easy task, but end-to-end supply chain security is more top of mind than ever. We’ve seen bad actors expand their focus to taking over user accounts, commonly used dependencies, and also build systems. Defending against these attacks is hard, because there’s no one thing you can do to protect your […] ⌘ Read more
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Improving your GitHub feed
Today, we are rolling out a new beta version of GitHub’s home feed, making it easier to discover projects, developers and more across GitHub. ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net yeah. For commercial use even. Just need to put an attribution note in the project README
Erlang Solutions: 5 Key Tech Priorities for Fintech Leaders in 2022
Issues caused by sub-optimal tech choices are commonplace in the industry, leading to companies failing under unexpected stress or being unable to adapt in time when their business requirements change.
While no two projects are the same, we’ve observed some common themes for using scalable futureproof technologies to build diverse fintech systems. Taking advantage of these learnings sets financial service provi … ⌘ Read more
Release Radar · February 2022 Edition
Our community has shipped lots of open source project updates in the last month. Here’s a few of our staff picks. ⌘ Read more
Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.12.0 released
ÄNTLIGEN! It’s finally here! After 3 years of development and through some chaotic times, Prosody 0.12.0 is released!
What’s the significance of this release? Like many software projects, Prosody follows a “branch” development/release model. We frequently make minor releases with bug fixes and improvements from our stable branch, while we implement more adventurous changes in our development branch, ready for the next major release.
Well, this is one of those adventurous … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter February 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of February 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 a … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Saving lives with Elixir
When you think about programming languages, you might not think about them literally changing people’s lives, but they do more often than you would expect. Elixir has empowered Linda Achieng and Sigu Mawa to build emergency software that is already saving lives in Kenya. What started with the death of a close friend, has expanded into an inspirational project, with Elixir being used to empower local com … ⌘ Read more
Getting started with project planning on GitHub
Stop context switching. Keep your team’s project planning next to your code. ⌘ Read more
Monal IM: Funding campaign: Mac Mini for faster Monal development
Update 15.02.2022 Thank you very much. We reached our target of 1000€ within less than a week. We will order our new Mac mini tonight. Stay tuned for a big development blog post.
Dear Monal Community,
as you know the Monal project is developed by volunteers and has no general funding so far.
To improve the development situation it would be of advantage to have a physical build server for the developers.
This would have … ⌘ Read more
Coordinated vulnerability disclosure (CVD) for open source projects
A comprehensive guide for vulnerability reporters. ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter December 2021 & January 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter covering the month of December 2021 and January 2022!
We hope you had a great shift into the new year by now as well as are happy to have you reading the new release! We guess that this episode has caught some weight over the new year’s holidays :-)
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 sof … ⌘ Read more
Release Radar · January 2022 Edition
Here’s January’s top staff picks on projects that shipped major version releases. ⌘ Read more
Sea Chase
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Get ready for Campus TV Season 2: 🌱 New Beginnings
Learn new skills, build projects and meet like-minded students with the latest shows from the GitHub Education Stream Team. ⌘ Read more
Good weekend for random tech projects: this rackmount server I got free boots Plan 9 without issue, and my ttl adapters and wii nunchucks just arrived. Now where can I find a serial modem?
Highlights from Git 2.35
The open source Git project just released Git 2.35. Here’s GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time. ⌘ Read more
Release Radar · December 2021 Edition
Many of us were wrapping up projects, emails, events, and getting ready for Christmas. While we were all busy getting ready for the festive season, our community was still hard at work shipping open source ⌘ 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
Only 1 day of activity so far, but I’ve started a new project log for whatever the heck I end up doing to this Monroe 425 I got. http://a.9srv.net/monroe425
JMP: How to use Jabber from SMS
The Soprani.ca project, and Cheogram in particular, is pretty big on bidirectional gateways. The most popular Cheogram-hosted instance, so popular that it gets to own Jabber IDs on cheogram.com, is a bidirectional gateway to the telephone network. How is it bidirectional? Don’t you need a Jabber ID to use it? Of course not!
From any SMS-enabled device, add +12266669977, which is the gateway’s phone number. Send the foll … ⌘ Read more
First NFT sold for “Tux on Tour”? The Amiga one. Naturally.
%5 of every “Tux on Tour” transaction (sales and re-sales) is donated to Open Source projects. ⌘ Read more
Tux on Tour - Raising money for Open Source projects using nerdy NFTs
A percentage of all sales (and re-sells) goes directly to Haiku and PCLinuxOS. ⌘ Read more
The QOI File Format Specification
Last month I announced a
toy project called QOI — the Quite OK Image Format. It losslessly compresses
RGB and RGBA images to a similar size of PNG, while offering a 20x-50x
speedup in compression and 3x-4x speedup in decompression.
With the help of countless passionate people on Github, we have refined some of
the rough edges and specified exactly what … ⌘ Read more
How to define security requirements for your OSS project
Defining your security requirements is the most important proactive control you can implement for your project. Here’s how. ⌘ Read more
Article on designing 21st century instruments for teaching music theory (aka ditch the piano): [[https://historyofmusictheory.wordpress.com/2021/11/01/should-we-burn-the-pianos-introducing-a-collaborative-project-focused-on-building-new-instruments-for-theory/]] #links
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
The last programming project from Bill Gates: Microsoft BASIC for TRS-80 Model 100
This Operating System was the last project that Bill Gates played a major role in programming… and it’s actually pretty amazing. ⌘ Read more
Safeguard your containers with new container signing capability in GitHub Actions
GitHub has partnered with the OpenSSF and Project Sigstore to add container image signing to our default “Publish Docker Container” workflow. ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter November 2021
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter covering the month of November 2021 - the last release for this year! After our editorial break we will be back in February 2022!
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 to say thanks or help these projects!
[Read this Ne … ⌘ Read more
Release Radar · November 2021 Edition
The end of the year is getting closer, and our communities are busy working away on their projects. While you’ve all been busy maintaining open source projects and shipping releases, we’ve created a new open ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: inVerse plugin for Openfire version 9.0.0.1 released!
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of a an update to the inVerse plugin for Openfire, which makes the Converse.js web client available to your users.
This release updates Converse to version 9.0.0.
Your Openfire instance should automatically display the … ⌘ Read more
Jérôme Poisson: Libervia v0.8 « La Cecília »
I’m proud to announce the release of Libervia 0.8 « La Cecília » (formerly known as « Salut à Toi »), after more than 2 years of development.
This version is a big milestone preparing the future of the project. Let’s have an overview of some major changes.
Project RenamingIn the interest of simplicity, the project has been renamed to “ Libervia ” (with was formerly the name of the web frontend), and all official frontends have now a … ⌘ Read more