I’m honestly thinking about switching browsers, because this “new feature” where Firefox always downloads PDFs first to display them is annoying me so much. I don’t want my Downloads folder to be cluttered with all those random PDFs. If I open a restaurant’s menu PDF, I just want to take a quick look, but don’t want to have the PDF in my Downloads folder until I manually delete it and then delete it from the Recycle Bin again. There are some work-arounds, but no real solution. ⌘ Read more
Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.12.2 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.
This is a regularly delayed release containing a number of fixes for
issues that we have come across since the last release of the 0.12
series.
A summary of changes in this release:
Fixes and improvementsuser/bmallred/data/2022-12-13-13-42-36.fit: 5.04 miles, 00:08:56 average pace, 00:45:00 duration
Creating an accessible search experience with the QueryBuilder component
GitHub’s search inputs have several complex accessibility considerations. Let’s dive into what those are, how we addressed them, and talk about the standalone, reusable component that was ultimately built. ⌘ Read more
Highlights from Git 2.39
Another new release of Git is here to end the year! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.39. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Journal, Kanji Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/12/kanji.html #programming #project #devjournal
user/bmallred/data/2022-12-11-10-07-26.fit: 7.02 miles, 00:09:27 average pace, 01:06:23 duration
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Colossal Cave Adventure https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/10/colossal-cave.html #freeculture #bookclub
I use Firefox as my preferred web browser both on PCs and my phone. One extension is always installed: uBlock Origin. The web is so much nicer with all the ads and tracking removed. But today I also retried an extension that will probably join the “must install” list: DarkReader. Especially when I’m browsing the web on my phone in the early morning, I don’t like to be blinded by white websites. Since March DarkReader has finally an option to detect if a website already has a dark theme and only apply it’s color chan … ⌘ Read more
** December adventure **
Over the past couple years I’ve done the advent of code to varying degrees. I thought I was going to do it again this year but decided to try something different. I’ve been calling what came together a“ December Adventure.”
It isn’t anything fancy; throughout December I aim to write a little bit of code everyday. So far I’ve written a bit of apl, bash, elisp, explored a bunch of flavors of scheme, and star … ⌘ Read more
A “distributed network” does not make your app “decentralised” 🤦♂️ ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Tweets from 12/05 to 12/09 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/09/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Release Radar · October 2022 Edition
Before you say it, yes, the October Release Radar was supposed to be shared in November. But with Hackatoberfest, GitHub Universe, Turkey Day, and in real life (IRL) conferences returning to their pre-COVID frequency, we’ve all been so busy. And our community has been hustling to ship all kinds of open source projects. We wanted […] ⌘ Read more
user/bmallred/data/2022-12-09-13-11-37.fit: 5.04 miles, 00:09:45 average pace, 00:49:06 duration
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Elementary, Dear Data https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/08/dear-data.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Experiment: The hidden costs of waiting on slow build times
How much does it really cost to buy more powerful cloud compute resources for development work? A lot less than you think. ⌘ Read more
Git Commit Uruguay: Lowering barriers to make software development more inclusive and diverse
We delivered two different courses specifically designed to help students in the lowest-income neighborhood of Montevideo, Uruguay learn how to use GitHub and understand the value of open source. ⌘ Read more
Hello from GitHub’s new Chief Product Officer
GitHub is in an exciting phase of our journey as the developer community grows significantly every day, and the needs of the community grow and change with it. Today we’re introducing our new Chief Product officer. ⌘ Read more
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
GitHub Availability Report: November 2022
In November, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted Codespaces in October. ⌘ Read more
user/bmallred/data/2022-12-07-04-02-26.fit: 7.02 miles, 00:10:32 average pace, 01:13:52 duration
New npm features for secure publishing and safe consumption
Now you can create tokens with fine-grained permissions for automating your publishing and organization management workflows. And a new code explorer allows you to view content of a package directly in the npm portal. ⌘ Read more
user/bmallred/data/2022-12-06-09-13-49.fit: 5.03 miles, 00:11:37 average pace, 00:58:30 duration
ICYMI: A look back at GitHub Universe 2022
Catch up on everything we announced and see what else happened during this year’s GitHub Universe conference that took place November 9-10. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Journal, Repeal Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/05/repeal.html #programming #project #devjournal
Astronomy Numbers
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The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter November 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of November 2022. This is the final release for this year and we will have a well-deserved winter break until the 5th of February 2023! Many thanks to all readers and all contributors!
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 … ⌘ Read more
Near my new home. 🍂 ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Pejoratives and Specificity https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/04/specificity.html #blog #harm #rant #terminology
GPT-3 is crazy 🤯
Do you want to read why Go is a great programming language? ⌘ Read more
GPT-3 is crazy 🤯
Do you want to read why Go is a great programming language? ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Superflu https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/03/superflu.html #freeculture #bookclub
Gajim: Gajim 1.5.4
Gajim 1.5.4 comes with a reworked file transfer interface, better URL detection, message selection improvements, and many fixes under the hood. Thank you for all your contributions!
Gajim’s interface for sending files has been reworked, and should be much easier to use now. For each file you’re about to send, Gajim will generate a preview. This way, you can avoid sending the wrong file to somebody. Regardless of how you start a file transfer, be it drag and drop, pasting a … ⌘ Read more
The Laws of OAuth
The first law of OAuth states that the total number of authorized access tokens must remain constant in an isolated system. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Tweets from 11/28 to 12/02 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/02/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
GitHub, accessibility, and the disability divide
We just published our vision for GitHub accessibility at accessibility.github.com. Here’s the TL;DR: the prime directive of the GitHub accessibility program is to empower people with disabilities to build cool technology. ⌘ Read more
Introducing Mona Sans and Hubot Sans
Learn how to use and express yourself with GitHub’s open source variable fonts, Mona Sans and Hubot Sans. ⌘ Read more