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Short Bytes: An unofficial Android Nougat port has been released by an Android developer named Peter Yoon. The port is available for the credit card-sized single board computer Raspberry Pi 3. You can check the source code on Peter’s Github page and try out Android 7.0 on your Raspberry Pi right away. An unofficial port of […]
Short Bytes: Introducing a new way of thinking (that should be adopted by other tech giants) while working with open source projects, Facebook has launched Incubator on GitHub. The social network aims to release its internal open source projects via this central channel and observe their adoption in the open source community. If a project […]
Repository’s own account data not breached, affected passwords reset. On June 14, someone using what appears to have been a list of e-mail addresses and passwords obtained from the breach of “other online services” made a massive number of login attempts to GitHub’s repository service. A review of logins by GitHub’s administrators found that the attacker […]
Short Bytes: Should GitHub remove contribution graph from the personal profile of the contributors or the developers? This step might be taken for the personal well-being of the developers. Open source is good but personal life cannot be ignored either. What could motivate open source contributors to contribute more? Surely, some parameters like upvotes, followers, contribution […]
Short Bytes: SourceClear’s Open is a new tool to find potential threats in the open source code. This tool works for different platforms and frameworks like Django, Git, Bundler etc. Scanning report comes in the form of an analytics, using which a developer can also troubleshoot the buggy problems in the code. In the wake […]
Short Bytes: GitHub has just released the version 1.0 of Electron, its free and open source application building platform. After two years of development, Electron 1.0 is here with new features and a Chrome extension Devtron to debug applications and make them better. GitHub has released Electron 1.0, an application framework that builds cross-platform applications. Using […]
Short Bytes: RedMonk has just published its list of the top 21 programming languages of 2016 Q1. This list is based on the collective performance of the languages on GitHub and Stack Overflow. It has once again confirmed that JavaScript continues to run the web, followed by Java at the second position. If you are […]
Short Bytes: Codeology is an online visualization program that allows you to see your GitHub project in front of your eyes. Give it a try here with your project and know how it works. Some developers from the payments firm Braintree have created an open-source visualizer that allows you to see all the programming projects […]
Short Bytes: Annoyed by GitHub’s outdated Issues Tracker feature, a CloudFlare developer has written an open letter to GitHub, suggesting the website to address the issues. Notably, the Issues Tracker feature is very rigid in nature and lacks the ability to pass a feedback on the service itself. At the moment, 1192 users have signed this open later. […]
Short Bytes: With gitnonymous project, now you can obfuscate your true identity while making Git commits and pushing to public repositories. Using the instructions given on the GitHub page, learn to setup your anonymous account. Chris McCormick (aka chr15m) released an open source project called gitnonymous which can help you contribute to any public repository by […]
Short Bytes: Are you new to the world of Git and GitHub, finding it a little bit scary? Well, to erase these fears of command-line users who are new to this workflow tool, GitHub has released a self-paced training course which is available at no cost for a limited time. GitHub is the first choice […]
About eighteen months ago, GitHub launched its homegrown text editor named Atom. Atom was a result of about six years of research and was available to the users with the beta status. Today, GitHub’s hackable text editor is graduating and hitting 1.0. Atom has already been downloaded more than 1.3 million times and has more […]
GitHub, the web-based Git repository hosting service is down right now and Turkish hackers from Turk Hack Team claim they are behind this attack. In an exclusive conversation with one of the hacker from THT on Twitter HackRead was told the reason for targeting GitHub (github.com) is nothing but fun. THT is the same group who last […]
Update: GitHub is fully functional now. Old Story: GitHub, one of the most popular websites among programmers and developers is was under continuous attack from Chinese hackers. The collaborative project development website is was facing a massive DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack. Whenever GitHub users outside China are trying to access web pages with advertisements served by […]
Update: GitHub is fully functional now. Everything operating normally. — GitHub Status (@githubstatus) March 31, 2015 GitHub is one the most popular websites among programmers and developers and is currently having 3.4 million users with 2.2 million active repositories. This software development web site used for collaborative projects is currently being hit by a massive […]