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

Tillitis Key 1
The secret project I’ve been mentioning in my gemlog is out!

This week we presented the Tillitis Key 1 at the Open Source Firmware\
Conference (OSFC). What we unveiled is a new kind of USB security
stick and a new company, a sister company to Mullvad VPN: Tillitis.

The stick is a small computer that can load and run small programs
uploded to it from a host computer. It always measures … ⌘ Read more

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GitHub for Startups is generally available
We’re launching GitHub for Startups to give your startup the tools needed to go from idea to unicorn status on the world’s largest developer platform. ⌘ Read more

I have a new Atom feed at https://mckinley.cc/blog/atom.xml. Open it in a Web browser for a surprise. :)

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Security alert: new phishing campaign targets GitHub users
On September 16, GitHub Security learned that threat actors were targeting GitHub users with a phishing campaign by impersonating CircleCI to harvest user credentials and two-factor codes. While GitHub itself was not affected, the campaign has impacted many victim organizations. ⌘ Read more

I don’t know a lot about HTTP/3. But today I updated Caddy to version 2.6 and my sites should support HTTP/3 by default now. More speed? 🤔 ⌘ Read more

Applications for micro-mentoring at GitHub Universe 2022 are now live
Students have the opportunity to connect with GitHub employees at GitHub Universe 2022 through Micro-Mentoring sessions hosted by GitHub Social Impact. ⌘ Read more

The ReadME Project: Built for you!
The ReadME Project & Podcast evolve with community expert voices and topics to stoke discussion about the culture and craft of software development. ⌘ Read more

Why we signed the Copenhagen Pledge on Tech for Democracy
As the home for developers, we understand the key role our communities play in steering digital transformation and maintaining societal infrastructure. That’s why we choose to drive and support policies and initiatives like the Copenhagen Pledge on Tech for Democracy. We’re committed to working with like-minded organizations, governments, and civil society to make digital technologies work for democracy and human rights, … ⌘ Read more

You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list: https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/cloudflare-ip-blockade.html

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starting fresh and archiving old blog posts

2022-09-21 00:06

okay, so this post marks the start of a wonderful informal blog about my
thoughts, feelings, and programming adventures.

i already had a blog with posts, but i archived all of those posts,
because they felt too professional or formal for something that’s supposed to be
a personal website.

originally, i was going to just delete them from my website and back them up to
a directory on … ⌘ Read more

Transform your software engineering practices with GitHub Enterprise
Go beyond knowing GitHub as the home of open source and explore how GitHub Enterprise can help you transform your software engineering organization and practices. ⌘ Read more

“If you don’t make it beautiful, it’s for sure doomed”: putting the Vault in GitHub’s Arctic Code Vault
GitHub this month installed a massive steel vault, etched with striking AI-generated art, deep within an Arctic mountain, finalizing its Arctic Code Vault. This vault contains the 188 reels of hardened archival film which will preserve the 02/02/202 snapshot of every active public GitHub repository for 1,000 years. It also now includes a … ⌘ Read more

Bring Continuous Integration to Your Laptop With the Drone CI Docker Extension
Continuous Integration (CI) is a key element of cloud native application development. With containers forming the foundation of cloud-native architectures, developers need to integrate their version control system with a CI tool.  There’s a myth that continuous integration needs a cloud-based infrastructure. Even though CI makes sense for production releases, developers need to build … ⌘ Read more

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JMP: Privacy and Threat Modelling
One often hears people ask if a product or service is “good for privacy” or if some practice they intend to incorporate is “good enough” for their privacy needs.  The problem with most such questions is that they often lack the necessary context, called a threat model, in order to even begin to understand how to answer them.  Understanding your own threat model (and making any implicit model you carry more explicit to yourself) is one of the most important steps you can take to im … ⌘ 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

JMP: Privacy and Threat Modelling
One often hears people ask if a product or service is “good for privacy” or if some practice they intend to incorporate is “good enough” for their privacy needs.  The problem with most such questions is that they often lack the necessary context, called a threat model, in order to even begin to understand how to answer them.  Understanding your own threat model (and making any implicit model you carry more explicit to yourself) is one of the most important steps you can take to im … ⌘ Read more

Announcing Docker Hub Export Members
Find out how Docker Business admins can export members to track their utilization of Docker and audit Docker usage. ⌘ Read more

Kubernetes in Production Environments
Follow along as we chat about this week’s Dear Moby question! What’s the best way to develop if your production environment runs Kubernetes? ⌘ Read more

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How we tripled max concurrent jobs to boost performance of GitHub Actions
The GitHub Actions team has done lots of work to improve the performance and resource consumption of Actions on GHES in the past year. ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: New Openfire plugin: Push Server!
The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the 1.0.0 release of the Push Server plugin for Openfire. This plugin is developed by the company Busoft Teknoloji A.Ş. It is inspired by Conversations Push Proxy and developed for Openfire.

Your instance of Openfire should automatically display the availability of the new plugin in the next few hours. Alternatively, you … ⌘ Read more

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Clarifying Misconceptions About Web3 and Its Relevance With Docker
This blog is the first in a two-part series. We’ll talk about the challenges of defining Web3 plus some interesting connections between Web3 and Docker. Part two will highlight technical solutions and demonstrate how to use Docker and Web3 together. We’ll build upon the presentation, “Docker and Web 3.0 — Using Docker to Utilize Decentralized […] ⌘ Read more

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Paul Schaub: Using Pushdown Automata to verify Packet Sequences
As a software developer, most of my work day is spent working practically by coding and hacking away. Recently though I stumbled across an interesting problem which required another, more theoretical approach;

An OpenPGP message contains of a sequence of packets. There are signatures, encrypted data packets and their accompanying encrypted session keys, compressed data and literal data, the latter being the packet … ⌘ Read more

8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot
Developers all over the world are using GitHub Copilot to help speed up their development and increase developer productivity. With GitHub Copilot available to developers everywhere, we’ve found some fun and useful examples of how developers can use GitHub Copilot for things you may not be thinking about. ⌘ Read more

Back Up and Share Docker Volumes with This Extension
You can now back up volumes with the new Volumes Backup & Share extension. Find out how it works in this post! ⌘ Read more

GoToSocial seems like a promising alternative to Mastodon. It’s written in Go (👍 in my opinion), lightweight and pretty good documented so far. It’s still “alpha software” but seems to make great progress. In the past, I self hosted a microblog.pub instance and then after some time without any Fediverse profile other than my blog, which has ActivityPub support as well, signed up at Fosstodon to be able to reply to blog comments from the Fediverse. I already set up an instace of GTS, but will probably wait to use it … ⌘ Read more

What is the Best Container Security Workflow for Your Organization?
Find the best container security workflow for your company with these key takeaways from DockerCon. We’ll cover mindset, structure, toolsets, and more. ⌘ Read more

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Scaling Git’s garbage collection
A tour of recent work to re-engineer Git’s garbage collection process to scale to our largest and most active repositories. ⌘ Read more

Four Ways Docker Boosts Enterprise Software Development
David Balakirev, Regional CTO at Adnovum, describes how they show the benefits of container technology based on Docker. ⌘ Read more

Containerizing a Slack Clone App Built with the MERN Stack
The MERN Stack is a fast growing, open source JavaScript stack that’s gained huge momentum among today’s web developers. MERN is a diverse collection of robust technologies (namely, Mongo, Express, React, and Node) for developing scalable web applications — supported by frontend, backend, and database components. Node, Express, and React even ranked highly among most-popular […] ⌘ Read more

Join GitHub at the Grace Hopper Celebration 2022
We’re thrilled to be back at the Grace Hopper Celebration at Open Source Day, the largest celebration of women in open source. Stop by and say hi at one of our workshops. ⌘ Read more

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Gear-up and unlock the newest GitHub Global Campus features
Calling all students and teachers! With semester change coming soon, now is the time to start using the latest features within GitHub Education and Global Campus! ⌘ Read more

wsl-vpnkit: Internet for WSL2 distros behind a VPN
I’m still alive. 👋 Today, at work, I discovered a nice little tool for WSL2. On my work laptop I need to use Cisco AnyConnect to connect to the corporate network. Unfortunately this blocks Internet access in Windows Subsystem for Linux VMs (at least in the Ubuntu VM, I tried to use for some Docker stuff). I tried a lot of different hacks and workarounds, but none worked. Until I found wsl-vpnkit. It just works. 😄 ⌘ Read more

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