March 09, 2024

Scoring your project’s security

1 hour 23 minutes

Autumn and Justin are joined by Chris Swan to discuss tech industry trends like AI and sustainability, gamifying the software development process and motivating devs to write more secure code, OpenSSF Scorecards and how they offer a way to measure and improve the security and compliance of GitHub repos, the scoring system, and the security posture of a repository.

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Featuring:

Chris Swan – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Links of the week

List of 2024 leap day bugs

Prescription orders delayed as US pharmacies grapple with “nation-state” cyber attack

Person, place, thing, || null

Linux - person (Linus Torvalds)

git - person (Linus Torvalds)

Kubernetes - thing (helmsman)

Algorithms - person (Al-Khwarizmi, Persian mathmetition)

Trojan Horse - place (Troy)

Bluetooth - person (Harold Bluetooth, Denmark king)

Hadoop - thing (kids elephant toy)

Venn diagram - person (John Venn)

MySQL - person (My Widenius)

Debian - person (Deb and Ian)

Neon - Greek neon meaning new

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