DevOps

An introduction to supply chain attacks

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.

Getting started with GraphQL

GraphQL is an API query and manipulation language. Created by Facebook in 2012, it was open-sourced in 2015.

Getting started with Bitbucket Pipelines

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 Confluence and Jira).

Converting images with ImageMagick

Photoshop is old. Really old. Well, in computer terms anyway. As of writing, it’s currently on version 24.

Using GitHub Actions to automatically unpack a zip archive

I was recently working with some software that could push a zip archive of content to a Git repository.

Managing packages on macOS with Homebrew

If you’re a Linux user, or you read my article on Scoop, you’ll be familiar with package managers.

Fostering security awareness

Today’s article is based on a presentation I gave at a security conference in the 2010s.

Bulk updating documents with XSLT

XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is a language for transforming XML documents into other documents.

Managing packages on Windows with Scoop

If you have even a passing familiarity with Linux, you’re probably aware of the concept of package management.

Doing continuous translation with Weblate

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.

Using GitHub Actions and Hosted Runners

You’ve probably heard of DevOps. You’re probably aware of the term CI/CD (continuous integration and delivery).