On GitHub becoming an AI platform
Listen now (19 mins) | Lunduke’s Big Tech Show - November 13th, 2023 ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Transfigurations https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/10/19/transfigurations.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
ICYMI: improved C++ vulnerability coverage and CodeQL support for Lombok
The effectiveness of a static application security solution hinges on its ability to provide extensive vulnerability coverage and support for a wide range of languages and frameworks. Today, we’re highlighting two releases that’ll help you discover more vulnerabilities in your codebase, so you can ship more secure software.
The post [ICYMI: improved C++ vulnerability coverage and CodeQL support … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Poles, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/08/19/poles-1.html #freeculture #bookclub
Exploring developer happiness, inclusion, and productivity at GitHub’s Design Conference
As a design organization, we have the opportunity to make a significant impact on designing the platform for all developers. How does the emergence of creative AI impact our work? How can we achieve an inclusive experience for a spectrum of all abilities? What does designing for developer happiness look like? ⌘ Read more
Metrics for issues, pull requests, and discussions
With the new Issue Metrics GitHub Action, you can now track and monitor important metrics related to issues, pull requests, and discussions, such as time to first response, time to close, and more! ⌘ Read more
GitHub Availability Report: June 2023
In June, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. June 7 16:11 UTC (lasting 2 hours 28 minutes) On June 7 at 16:11 UTC, GitHub started experiencing increasing delays in an internal job queue used to process Git pushes. Our monitoring systems alerted our first responders after 19 minutes. During […] ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 06/19 to 06/23 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/23/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week
Developers need the right to challenge junk patents
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently proposed rule changes that will make it harder to challenge low quality patents. Without the ability to quickly and efficiently challenge wrongly granted patents, innovation and developers suffer. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, Juneteenth https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/19/juneteenth.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 05/15 to 05/19 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/19/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week
According to the RedMonk programming language rankings from Jan 2023, Go and Scala are tied at 14th place 😏
1 JavaScript
2 Python
3 Java
4 PHP
5 C#
6 CSS
7 TypeScript
7 C++
9 Ruby
10 C
11 Swift
12 Shell
12 R
14 Go
14 Scala
16 Objective-C
17 Kotlin
18 PowerShell
19 Rust
19 Dart
Private vulnerability reporting now generally available
Open source maintainers and security researchers embrace a new best practice to report and fix vulnerabilities. ⌘ Read more
Introducing npm package provenance
How to verifiably link npm packages to their source repository and build instructions. ⌘ Read more
The future of Linux as a gaming platform
Listen now (19 min) | The Lunduke Journal of Technology Podcast - Apr 4, 2023 ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Fiction — Bank on It https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/19/banks.html #freeculture #politics #scifi #fiction
**RT by @mind_booster: [Workshop de Introdução ao Git]
📆 06/03
🕘 18 horas
📍 DETI - 4.1.19
A AETTUA em conjunto com o GLUA organizou um workshop de Introdução ao Git onde terás a oportunidade de ficar a conhecer esta plataforma e pôr alguns conceitos em prática.
Inscrições: https://workshop-git.aettua.pt/**
[Workshop de Introdução ao Git]
📆 06/03
🕘 18 horas
📍 DETI - 4.1.19
A AETTUA em conjunto com o GLUA organizou um workshop de Introdução ao Git onde terás a oportunidade de ficar a conhecer esta plataforma e pôr … ⌘ Read more
UNIX is Everywhere
Listen now (19 min) | The Lunduke Journal of Technology Podcast - Feb 23, 2023 ⌘ Read more
OpenBSD, HelloSystem, and BSD Rabbit Holes
Listen now (31 min) | The Lunduke Journal of Technology Podcast - Feb 19, 2023 ⌘ Read more
Hey @manton wondering if you can help debug on your side for me why micro.blog isn’t looking up successfully, get a spinning search wheel and no results, my activitypub user @james@james (custom implemtnation I’m building). Works with a GTS (GotoSocial) instance so far, but not micro.blob :/ ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Life Blood, chapters 17 – 19 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/04/life-blood-6.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Measure of a Man https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/19/measure-man.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Unlocking security updates for transitive dependencies with npm
How Dependabot integrated with npm to address security vulnerabilities on transitive dependencies and increase the likelihood of success for JavaScript security updates by 40%. ⌘ Read more
How GitHub coordinates product releases with GitHub Projects and GitHub Actions
When teams work cross-functionally, good things happen. See how our teams use GitHub Projects to coordinate and ship new products and features. ⌘ Read more
**R to @mind_booster: …quando o Gov. podia (e devia) dizer “em 2026 o valor de referência vai passar a ser o referencial do limiar de pobreza”.
Ver para crer.
https://rr.sapo.pt/noticia/politica/2023/01/19/aumento-historico-governo-reforca-pensoes-mais-baixas-com-50-euros-por-mes/316551**
…quando o Gov. podia (e devia) dizer “em 2026 o valor de referência vai passar a ser o referencial do limiar de pobreza”.
Ver para crer.
[rr.sapo.pt/noticia/politica/…](https://rr.sapo.pt/noticia/politica/2023/01/19/au … ⌘ Read more
R to @mind_booster: Faça-se justiça, isto é “tapado” pelo facto de quem recebe pensão social de velhice recebe também um complemento extraordinário de solidariedade (19.52 a quem tem até 70 anos), e é ainda elegível ao complemento solidário para idosos. 1/3
Faça-se justiça, isto é “tapado” pelo facto de quem recebe pensão social de velhice recebe também um complemento extraordinário de solidariedade (19.52 a quem tem até 70 anos), e é ainda elegível ao complemento solidário para idosos. 1/3 ⌘ Read more
Remediation made simple: Introducing new validity checks for GitHub tokens
GitHub now tells you whether GitHub tokens found by secret scanning are active so you can prioritize and escalate remediation efforts. ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: As of today, most published works from 1927 have entered the public domain in the US! Celebrate with us on Jan 19 & 20: http://blog.archive.org/2022/11/30/the-best-things-in-life-are-free-two-ways-to-celebrate-public-domain-day-in-2023/
Welcome to the #PublicDomain:
🎞️ The Beloved Rogue, starring John Barrymore
https://archive.org/details/TheBelovedRogue**
As of today, most published works from 1927 have entered the public domain in the US! Celebrate with us on Jan 19 & 20: [blog.arc … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Tweets from 12/19 to 12/23 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/23/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
[Video] How has open source changed in the last 10 years?
What’s the state of open source and how has it changed over the last decade? GitHub’s VP of Developer Relations, Martin Woodward, tackles that question and more in a 2022 keynote. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Journal, International Human Solidarity Eve https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/19/solidarity.html #programming #project #devjournal
GitHub Copilot is generally available for businesses
GitHub Copilot for Business is officially here with simple license management, organization-wide policy controls, and industry-leading privacy—all for $19 USD per user per month. ⌘ Read more
“The 20 months of battering negotiations have implications for health emergencies beyond COVID-19. “Clearly, there is a problem within the system,” said Luke McDonagh, assistant professor of law at the London School of Economics.”:
“The 20 months of battering negotiations have implications for health emergencies beyond COVID-19. “Clearly, there is a problem within the system,” said Luke McDonagh, assistant professor of law at the London School of Economics.”:
[nitter.net/PedroMMalaquias/status/159062643661 … ⌘ Read more
PSA: DMs on social media sites are not truely PMs. This is why we have a separate tool for private messaging from yarn. Always remember, if you don’t own the infra (or the parts at the ends of e2e encryption) you don’t own the data. and the true owners can view it any way they want!
https://twitter.com/TinkerSec/status/1587040089057759235?t=At-8r9yJPiG6xF17skTxwA&s=19
Lunduke’s Normal Computing News - Oct 19, 2022
Listen now (40 min) | Microsoft kills “Office”, iPads get USB-C, and Firefox wants to know your feelings. ⌘ Read more
Meet the GitHub Campus Experts selected for the fall 2022 MLH Fellowship Cohort, powered by GitHub
Three new Campus Experts are joining the fall 2022 batch of the MLH Fellowship to work with open source maintainers and get real-world experience. ⌘ Read more
5 steps to convince your boss to send you to GitHub Universe
Here are some actionable tips on how to ask your manager to send you to GitHub Universe this year—with a free template included! ⌘ Read more
5 tips for prioritizing Dependabot alerts
Dependabot alerts can give you the ability to secure your project by keeping dependency-based vulnerabilities out of your code. Here are some tips to more efficiently prioritize and take action on your alerts, so you can get back to building. ⌘ Read more
**We still didn’t have a (much needed) conversation about how to prepare for the next pandemic, so that next time we won’t end up with such ill-designed contact tracing apps.
But it seems that first we have other conversation we can no longer postpone:
https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-data-switch/**
We still didn’t have a (much needed) conversation about how to prepare for the next pandemic, so that next time we won’t end up with such ill-designed contact tracing apps.
But it seems that first we have oth … ⌘ Read more
6 strategic ways to level up your CI/CD pipeline
From incorporating accessibility testing to implementing blue-green deployment models, here are six practical and strategic ways to improve your CI/CD pipeline. ⌘ Read more
**Ten years ago, the 3CD compilation “Bearded Snails” was released, featuring 16 tracks and 19 artists of the “A Beard of Snails Records” roster.
The last of those tracks is kokori’s “Attention”, in its first release to the general public. Now here: https://the20th.bandcamp.com/track/attention**
Ten years ago, the 3CD compilation “Bearded Snails” was released, featuring 16 tracks and 19 artists of the “A Beard of Snails Records” roster.
The last of those tracks is kokori’s “Attention”, in its first release to … ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Journal Podcast - June 21, 2022
Listen now (19 min) | What are the minimum number of online services you could use? ⌘ Read more
**“This decision is not only a hollow response to Covid-19, but it sends the message that intellectual property rights outweigh the rights to health and life.”
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/06/covid-19-wto-ministerial-decision-on-trips-agreement-fails-to-set-rules-that-could-save-lives/**
“This decision is not only a hollow response to Covid-19, but it sends the message that intellectual property rights outweigh the rights to health and life.”
[amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…](https://www.amnesty. … ⌘ Read more
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
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
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
SUSE buys itself a “COVID 19 Hero” award. Not joking.
Also buys their CEO “Woman of the year” award. Also not joking. ⌘ Read more