Not enough tests
GoBlog’s test coverage is increasing (currently about 41%), but I keep being reminded there is nothing like enough or even too many tests. I still find some stupid bugs that aren’t covered by automatic tests. ⌘ Read more
Merry Christmas! 🎄🎅 ⌘ Read more
🙌 Liked: Lisp in Life - Conway’s Game of Life ⌘ Read more
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
** Olophont.js **
In Lord of the Rings there are creatures that look like giant elephants. JRR Tolkien named these creatures“olophonts…” simply replacing every vowel in the word elephant with an o. Here is a javascript function to do the same thing.
javascript
<span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">function</span> <span class="hljs-title">olophont</span>(<span class="hljs-params">string</span>) </span>{
<span class="hljs-keyword">let</span> replaceVowels = <span class="hljs-string">""</span> ... ⌘ [Read more](https://eli.li/2021/12/20/olophont-js)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
** Introducing Guava **
I’ve been fascinated by Forth and concatenative programming for a while now. I can’t remember how I initially stumbled in to it, but once I got going I’ve been unable to stop. I’m a wee bit in love with it.
Wanting to play a bit with implementing my own spin on things and having opinions about tooling, I picked up a little scripting language called [Ripen](https://felix.plesoia … ⌘ Read more
Future of Yarn.social
What?Today I’m going to talk about Yarn.social’s future, a roadmap into where we’re going and thinking. I’ll also write a little about it’s history of where we came from and highlight how Yarn.social is different and in my opinion better.
For those of you new to my blog or Yarn.social; Yarn.social is a decentralised social media platform, a microBlogging platform. It was originally crea … ⌘ 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
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
Instead of banging my head on Advent of Code, I coded something useful today: Text-to-Speech for GoBlog using the official Google Text-to-Speech API. When posting, an audio file is generated automatically from the post content. And, I have to praise myself for this, I documented the feature as well! 😄 ⌘ 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
Day 16 of Advent of Code is so confusing that I will not finish today’s puzzle. I wonder if yesterday was my last day with Advent of Code, or will the puzzles become more understandable and easier again in the next few days? Maybe I’m just more the practical type. I like programming, but such complex algorithms are not really my thing. And in the end, Advent of Code is supposed to be fun… ⌘ 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
“The Web Is Fucked”
Kev Quirk has written a manifesto showing what bothers him about today’s web: ⌘ 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
Erlang Solutions: Aleksander Lisiecki’s prize-winning eArangoDB at SpawnFest 2021
It’s tempting to say that SpawnFest is an event that doesn’t need an introduction, but we’ll give it one anyway. SpawnFest is an annual remote hackathon, where teams have exactly one weekend (48 hours to be exact) to create the best BEAM-related application … ⌘ Read more
Every good blogging system should have an option to schedule posts for later! GoBlog now has such a feature as well. And this is the first scheduled post. 😀 ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd 21.12
This new ejabberd 21.12 release comes after five months of work, contains more than one hundred changes, many of them are major improvements or features, and several bug fixes.
When upgrading from previous versions, please notice: there’s a change in mod_register_web behaviour, and PosgreSQL database, please take a look if they affect your installation.
A more detailed expla … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd 21.12
This new ejabberd 21.12 release comes after five months of work, contains more than one hundred changes, many of them are major improvements or features, and several bug fixes.
When upgrading from previous versions, please notice: there’s a change in mod_register_web behaviour, and PosgreSQL database, please take a look if they affect your installation.
A more detailed expla … ⌘ 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
ProcessOne: ejabberd 21.12
This new ejabberd 21.12 release comes after five months of work, contains more than one hundred changes, many of them are major improvements or features, and several bug fixes.
When upgrading from previous versions, please notice: there’s a change in mod_register_web behaviour, and PosgreSQL database, please take a look if they affect your installation.
A more detailed expla … ⌘ Read more