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
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
Open source creates value, but how do you measure it?
When digital infrastructure is overlooked by governments, it isn’t just a missed opportunity: policies may inadvertently endanger open source collaboration. ⌘ 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
How open source is supporting NASA’s new eyes in space
With the successful liftoff of the James Webb Space Telescope, we ask our very own Arfon Smith about the history of open source and space science. ⌘ Read more
Top-rated entries from Game Off 2021
Here are the top games created in our annual game jam as rated and reviewed by the developers that made them. Game On! 🤘🏻 ⌘ Read more
How five open source communities are using GitHub Discussions
From answering questions about a new release to fielding feature requests, here’s how five open source communities use GitHub Discussions. ⌘ Read more
The Open Source Software Security Summit: securing the world’s code together
My colleague Stormy Peters and I are proud to represent GitHub at the White House’s Open Source Software Security Summit to share how securing open source begins by empowering developers. ⌘ Read more
How we ship GitHub Mobile every week
Learn how the GitHub Mobile Team automates their release process with GitHub Actions. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Availability Report: December 2021
In December, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services. ⌘ Read more
How the community powers GitHub Advanced Security with CodeQL queries
The GitHub Security Lab’s CodeQL bounty program fuels GitHub Advanced Security with queries written by the open source community. ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.5.6 is released
Openfire 4.5.6 has been released, that addresses an annoying issue that was affecting the earlier 4.5.5 release. We’ve updated the bundled log4j library to version 2.17.1 for good measure.
The changelog denotes the two Jira issues closed by this release. You can find Openfire build artifacts available for download [here](https://github.com/igniterealtime/Openfire/rel … ⌘ Read more
@jlj@twt.nfld.uk right now the getwtxt-ng source is in a private repo on github, though I may move it to sr.ht for its primary home (and just mirror it to github)
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
🙌 Liked: Lisp in Life - Conway’s Game of Life ⌘ Read more
Hey. I my own local forward tool. https://github.com/JonLundy/sshfwd it uses ssh port forwards.
How GitHub contributed to the Santa Clara Principles update
GitHub was honored to contribute to the Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation 2.0. ⌘ Read more
How to leverage security frameworks and libraries for secure code
In this post, I’ll discuss how to apply OWASP Proactive Control C2: Leverage security frameworks and libraries. ⌘ 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
Getting started with GitHub Actions just got easier!
When you want to create a workflow in the Actions tab of your repository, the recommendations are now based on an analysis of repo content. ⌘ Read more
Technical interviews via Codespaces
Codespaces is a great tool for technical hiring exercises and helps level the playing field for candidates. ⌘ Read more
5 automations every developer should be running
Looking to avoid security vulnerabilities, buttons that don’t work, slow site speeds, or manually writing release notes? This one’s for you. ⌘ Read more
A brief history of code search at GitHub
This blog post tells the story of why we built a new search engine optimized for code. ⌘ Read more
Using GitHub’s security features to help identify Log4j exposure in your codebase
Use GitHub’s security features to assess Apache Log4j exposure and, where possible, mitigate this vulnerability within your GitHub repositories. ⌘ 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
GitHub’s response to Log4j vulnerability CVE-2021-44228
On Thursday, December 9, 2021, GitHub was made aware of a vulnerability in the Log4j logging framework, CVE-2021-44228. ⌘ Read more
What’s new from GitHub Changelog? November 2021 recap
We shipped a ton of updates in November, from the push notification for PR review activities on the go, to an easy way to create Markdown links. ⌘ Read more
GitHub at the UN Internet Governance Forum
Last week, GitHub joined the Internet Governance Forum to spread awareness of developers’ initiatives and public policy interests. ⌘ Read more
fake english word generation for Go and CLI: [[https://github.com/nwtgck/go-fakelish]] #links
a zero dependency shell script that makes it really simple to manage your text notes [[https://github.com/nickjj/notes]] #links
squinewave: a sine-square-saw-pulse oscillator with hardsync: [[https://github.com/required-field/squinewave]] #links
GitHub is the hub of the entire Open Source world?
… ⌘ Read more
Introducing stack graphs
Precise code navigation is powered by stack graphs, a new open source framework that lets you define the name binding rules for a programming language. ⌘ Read more
Precise code navigation for Python, and code navigation in pull requests
Code navigation is now available in PRs, and code navigation results for Python are now more precise. ⌘ Read more
Improving GitHub code search
Today, we are rolling out a technology preview for GitHub code search, the next iteration for search, discovery, and navigation on GitHub. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.3 is generally available
GitHub Enterprise Server is now generally available for all customers. This release improves performance for CI/CD and for customers with large repositories. ⌘ Read more
Enrolling all npm publishers in enhanced login verification and next steps for two-factor authentication enforcement
Today we’re introducing enhanced login verification to the npm registry, and we will begin a staged rollout to maintainers beginning Dec 7. ⌘ Read more
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
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
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
GitHub Availability Report: November 2021
In November, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for multiple services. ⌘ Read more
Using ChatOps to help Actions on-call engineers
You can multiply the impact of your domain experts by building their common workflows into ChatOps. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Externships: enabling India’s next generation of developers
Are you a student in India? Applications are open for the GitHub Externships Winter Cohort! ⌘ Read more
Hey everyone, we’re Timothy DeHerrera and Tom Bereknyei,
the release managers for 21.11. As promised, the latest stable
release is here: NixOS 21.11 “Porcupine”.
- Release manual - [Highlights](/manual/nixos/stabl … ⌘ Read more
5 DevOps tips to speed up your developer workflow
From learning YAML to scripting with Bash, here are a few simple tips for developers who want to speed up their workflows. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Actions: reusable workflows is generally available
DRY your Actions configuration with reusable workflows (and more!) ⌘ Read more
https://github.com/bfmartin/fvwm-config-on-openbsd Worth a try ?
Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time
Introducing 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. All single-threaded, no
SIMD. It’s also stupidly simple.
tl;dr: 300 lines of C, single header,
source on github,
benchmark results here.
![QOI compression](/content/a … ⌘ Read more