Posted in 2024
🪄 Install asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environments
- 21 April 2024
Almost everyone I know who uses a computer, for fun or work, is overtaken by a slight nervousness when installing a new library, package, service or application on their operating system. The horror stories underpinning these reservations vary slightly between Linux, Unix, Windows and MacOS users, but everyone knows, regardless of preferred ecosystem, that installing software can do a number on their computer and the task should not be taken lightly. Especially for programmers, that struggle is no stranger. Therefore, any tool looking to simplify this task and eliminate potential points of failure is, in my book, a very welcome occurrence.
📚 Favorite Books
- 13 April 2024
These are books I’ve thoroughly enjoyed and have affected the way I see the world.
🤝 Initiatives and Organizations Supporting Open Source
- 07 April 2024
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✍️ Interesting Blogs
- 01 April 2024
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🚨 On the XZ Utils Backdoor (CVE-2024-3094): FOSS Delivered on its Pitfalls and Strengths
- 31 March 2024
The newly discovered backdoor[1] in the XZ Utils package[2] affecting numerous Linux distributions[3] and assigned CVE-2024-3094[4] is being dismissed by some members of the technology and security communities as yet another supply chain attack; relevant only because of how blatant it was and that it affected the Open Source ecosystem but in essence nothing out of the ordinary. Regardless of whether this perspective is gaining traction due to cynicism, as hyperbole for clicks or as a coping mechanism, I vehemently disagree with that stance.
🌱 Main Information Sources and Entertainment
- 10 February 2024
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