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by ethomson 5mo ago
Saddened to hear this. As a former GitHub employee, Mona was _a thing_. She had a backstory, and obviously a lot of designs. Simon’s initial work had a lot of impact on GitHub’s design and communications philosophy. Coincidentally, when I m
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by ethomson 2y ago
Thanks for everything, Cliff. I discovered _The Cuckoo’s Egg_ as a child, and was taken in. I wrote a book report on it... and then I wrote a book report on it the next year... and the next year... At some point, I stopped trying to drag my
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How npm install scripts can be weaponized: a real-world example(stacklok.com)
6 points by ethomson 3y ago|0 comments
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by ethomson 3y ago
This is delightful and I can't wait to try it out. Right now, the libgit2 project ( https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2 ) has a custom HTTP git server wrapper that will throttle the responses down to a very slow rate
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by ethomson 3y ago
Yes, that’s definitely the Copper Kettle. More interesting than the food, though, is the background. Those who aren’t familiar with Cambridge will see King’s College in the background, across the street, which many may know from the BBC’s C
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by ethomson 3y ago
There’s no confusion about it referring to a dwelling. The confusion is about the _type_ of dwelling. To quote Wikipedia: > In American English, "cottage" is one term for such holiday homes, although they may also be called a &
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by ethomson 3y ago
Product Manager for Vercel's storage products here. Today we announced three new storage products in beta; they're based on infrastructure that are provided by partners. There's a lot that goes in to pricing products -- and o
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by ethomson 4y ago
I was fortunate enough to go in 2019, pre-covid, while I had a day off in Seattle. It was a great museum, and I’m disappointed that I won’t be able to go back. I tweeted a bunch of photos: https://twitter.com/ethomson/s
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by ethomson 4y ago
No - your local server will still listen for webhooks, but they'll come from the proxy's client software. Basically, you set up your GitHub webhook URL as the proxy server (for example, smee.io). Then you run a client on your loca
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by ethomson 4y ago
Neat stuff - certainly this problem crops up quite a lot where an internal server needs to get GitHub webhook data. In the past, I've had good luck using a webhook proxy. I've mostly just used https://smee.io/ whi
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Avoid Boilerplate by Ad-Hoc Wrapping C-APIs in C++ Function Templates(craft.do)
1 points by ethomson 4y ago|0 comments
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by ethomson 4y ago
Thanks. The "commit and hope for the best" problem really resonates with me. There are two great projects that might provide some pain relief - nektos/act or rhysd/actionlint. But I agree that commit-to-validate is proba
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by ethomson 4y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I'm one of the PMs for GitHub Actions, and I appreciate this. Thinking about Actions as a set of primitives that you can compose is very much how I think about the product (and I think the other PMs as well) so
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by ethomson 5y ago
That's probably not what you want. Checking out an ID would put you in a detached HEAD state, and the CLI will give you the page of warning messages that go along with it. I think that this is an excellent reminder that yes, the gi
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by ethomson 5y ago
GitHub turns off rename detection and turns off recursive base-building when creating merge commits in pull requests. Both of these selections would cause differences in when a merge produces conflicts. This is for backward compatibility
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by ethomson 5y ago
That's certainly possible, but libgit2 carries an _exhaustive_ test corpus around merge as we aim to be bug-for-bug compatible with git-merge-recursive. This was also proved out by A/B testing the two at scale: https:/&#x2F
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by ethomson 5y ago
tl;dr: this is a MSCCI plug-in for git, for compatibility with (quite) old versions of Visual Studio. This is impressive work. I've used the MSCCI API on several projects - MSCCI is the old version control interface for Visual Studio.
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by ethomson 5y ago
frood: noun (in dogs) a thickly furred section between the forelegs, covering the upper upper surface of the hind legs; a hindleg "a ferret with an astonishing, yet brief, frood" Douglas Adams is rolling ove
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by ethomson 5y ago
Right, but when you write C, C++ and Swift directly you can also make a program that _doesn't_ leak memory. The question posed was whether that's even possible in Ć?
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by ethomson 5y ago
Product Manager for npm here. That was correct. As part of our integration, we were not excluding withdrawn advisories. We've since corrected this. Apologies!
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by ethomson 5y ago
No, there's no reason why that isn't available. This is a very sensible request and we'll add this information to the context available to workflow runs.
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by ethomson 5y ago
> Sometimes the checkout action fetches the wrong commit! I'm a product manager at GitHub, and I'm investigating this now. Feel free to drop me an email (ethomson@github.com) if you can share more information about the workflo
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Opening Keynote – GitHub Universe 2020(youtube.com)
1 points by ethomson 6y ago|0 comments
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by ethomson 7y ago
Product Manager at GitHub here - I'll be the Product Manager for npm when the acquisition closes. I agree - npm is definitely an integral part of the JavaScript ecosystem. The npm package registry will remain free for public projects
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by ethomson 7y ago
Yes, I love those. We'll keep those around for sure.
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by ethomson 7y ago
Yes, I apologize for not being clear: our Linux virtual machines only run Ubuntu. (We also offer macOS and Windows virtual machines.)
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by ethomson 7y ago
Here's an example: https://www.edwardthomson.com/blog/github_actions_5_building...
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by ethomson 7y ago
Product Manager for GitHub Actions here. You can self-host the GitHub Actions runners. This means that you can run CI/CD workflows on your own hardware, while your source code is hosted on github.com itself. https://help.
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by ethomson 7y ago
The best place to report issues or request features is https://github.community/ . The Product and Support teams both visit that regularly.
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by ethomson 7y ago
PM for GitHub Actions here. I wouldn't suggest that you build an action to run a build within a container. We offer container support for workflow runs which should be suitable for this. (Either by specifying the `jobs.<job-id&gt

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