I probably spend more CPU cycles optimizing the program than the program optimization will save in CPU cycles. 🤔 ⌘ Read more
Getting started with project planning on GitHub
Stop context switching. Keep your team’s project planning next to your code. ⌘ Read more
DOS + Windows 3.11… on a single floppy!
Seriously! Fully functional Windows 3.11 booting on just ONE floppy! Bonkers! ⌘ Read more
Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.11.13 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.
This is a(nother!) release for our stable branch to fix a memory leak caused
by the security fix. Deployments using websockets, SQL storage and possibly
other configurations may have noticed increasing memory usage after upgrading
to 0.11.12. This is resolved by this new release.
A summary of changes in this release:
Minor changesProsodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.11.12 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.
This is a security release that addresses a denial-of-service vulnerability in
Prosody’s mod_websocket. For more information, refer to the
20220113 advisory.
A summary of changes in this release:
Security- util.xml: Do not allow doctypes, comments or processing instructions
As usual, download instructions for many platforms can be f … ⌘ Read more
Eagle-eyed folks may have noticed that I made a few wee changes to this website.
The biggest, and most noticeable one is that I’ve filtered out all of the like type posts from appearing on the main feed, from rss, and in the archives. There were waaaaay to many, so filtering them out makes the entire website a lot more navigable. They are not gone, though, and I’ll probably keep sharing like type posts, but now they ar … ⌘ Read more
How to convert USB webcams to HDMI
There are a handful of interesting USB webcams out there, which naturally work great with a computer. But what if you want to combine video from a USB webcam with your HDMI cameras in a video switcher like the ATEM Mini? ⌘ Read more
I feel like it took me a bit longer to fully understand how to work in Smalltalk than it did most languages. The IDE is different than anything I’ve used before, and probably anything you’ve seen as well. You’re not going to be opening myscript.st in your favorite text editor, and then run it from the command line as you would a Python program. It takes a little mental adjustment to start with.
That’s not the warning, howe … ⌘ Read more
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Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.11.11 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.
This release contains some fixes to PEP to control memory usage, along
with a small batch of fixes for issues discovered since the last
release.
This will likely be the last release of the 0.11 branch.
A summary of changes in this release:
Fixes and improvements- net.server_epoll: Prioritize network events over timers to improve performance under heavy load
- mod_p … ⌘ 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
The watcher returns. Visited at the beginning of the now endless pandemic, we moved house, thinking that the eye wouldn’t follow. Now, years later, the eye has opened. We are seen. Perceived through an endless void. A summoning. ⌘ Read more
WSL 2 GPU Support for Docker Desktop on NVIDIA GPUs
It’s been a year since Ben wrote about Nvidia support on Docker Desktop. At that time, it was necessary to take part in the Windows Insider program, use Beta CUDA drivers, and use a Docker Desktop tech preview build. Today, everything has changed: On the OS side, Windows 11 users can now enable their GPU […]
The post [WSL 2 GPU Support for Docker Desktop on NVIDIA GPUs](https://www.docker.com/blog/wsl-2-gpu-support-for-dock … ⌘ 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
On the blog: Tweets from 11/08 to 11/12 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/12/03/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
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
Maybe I should write down my political views and thoughts in extra posts on my German blog in the future, instead of putting them in the monthly review and then translating them as well. English readers probably won’t get much out of it… Sorry! ✌️ ⌘ Read more
NixOS 21.11 released
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
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GitHub Actions: reusable workflows is generally available
DRY your Actions configuration with reusable workflows (and more!) ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Developer Journal, Byrd Antarctic Expedition https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/11/29/south-pole.html #programming #project #devjournal
Gajim: Development News November 2021
Annoyed of spam messages in public channels? Gajim just gained support for Message Moderation! Also this month: better message corrections and improved notifications.
If you’re participating in public channels you might have witnessed spam from time to time. Someone comes along and pastes some URL about a promising business opportunity, or leaves an offending picture. Moderators can kick/ban spammers, but that does not remove those … ⌘ Read more
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On the blog: Amateur Stenography https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/11/28/steno.html #education #technology #opensource #typing
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On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — if then else, part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/11/27/else3.html #freeculture #bookclub
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On the blog: Tweets from 11/22 to 11/26 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/11/26/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
First experience with my new unlimited mobile phone contract while traveling: The phone hotspot works much better than the ICE (German high speed train) WiFi usually does. At most, there are small interruptions in tunnels, but otherwise surfing, writing e-mails, and listening to music work perfectly. Even remote programming works. It was worth it… ⌘ Read more
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On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Slaver Weapon, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/11/25/slaver-2.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
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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
Secure deployments with OpenID Connect & GitHub Actions now generally available
GitHub Actions now supports OpenID Connect for secure deployment to different cloud providers via short-lived, auto-rotated tokens. ⌘ Read more
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How to squash bugs by enrolling in OSS-Fuzz
OSS-Fuzz is Google’s awesome fuzzing service for open source projects. GitHub Security Lab’s @kevinbackhouse describes enrolling a project. ⌘ Read more
The Copyright Office expands your security research rights
Recently, the Copyright Office responded to the calls to clarify the scope of protected security research. ⌘ Read more