On March 28 Andres Freund discovered malicious code in the XZ Utils package that could have compromised the security of around half the servers on the internet. The attack was audacious in its scope, …
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GraphQL is an API query and manipulation language. Created by Facebook in 2012, it was open-sourced in 2015. In 2018 it moved to the GraphQL Foundation and introduced a schema definition language …
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I’m a big fan of GitHub Actions. But if you’re working for an enterprise software company, there’s a fair chance you’re using Atlassian’s Bitbucket Cloud (along with …
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Photoshop is old. Really old. Well, in computer terms anyway. As of writing, it’s currently on version 24.0. It was originally developed for the Mac in 1987 by Thomas Knoll, a PhD student at the …
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I was recently working with some software that could push a zip archive of content to a Git repository. However, what I really wanted was for the contents of the archive to be pushed to the …
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If you’re a Linux user, or you read my article on Scoop, you’ll be familiar with package managers. They aim to simplify installing, upgrading, configuring and removing software. A key …
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Today’s article is based on a presentation I gave at a security conference in the 2010s. It’s a bit longer than what I’d normally share, but I think it’s still relevant, …
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XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is a language for transforming XML documents into other documents. I’ve mentioned it before in my article on creating release notes from …
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If you have even a passing familiarity with Linux, you’re probably aware of the concept of package management. The goal is to simplify the installing, upgrading, configuring and removing …
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This week, I want to give a shout-out to Weblate, a web-based translation tool with Git integration that’s available free to open source projects. I discovered it by chance because a developer I …
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You’ve probably heard of DevOps. You’re probably aware of the term CI/CD (continuous integration and delivery). But if not, the TL:DR is: Continuous integration: Build software locally. …
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