We’ve improved the security of our GitHub integration by migrating to GitHub Apps, for fine-grained permissions and read-only repo access. Why GitHub Apps?. Ever since the GitHub released GitHub Apps,…
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We’re proud to announce GitHub has partnered with WakaTime to scan for leaked api keys and other secret WakaTime tokens. WakaTime tokens allow users to programmatically access their WakaTime code stat…
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Happy New Year! In 2022, more than 400k developers spent a combined 43 million hours programming, tracked with WakaTime plugins. The average person spent 46 minutes per day programming. Each year we r…
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Why not just use Celery/RQ/Huey/TaskTiger?. Unfortunately, WakaTime has been using Celery for almost 10 years now. During that time I’ve experienced many critical bugs, some still open years after bei…
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Today GitHub announced it will archive Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022. Why?. Development on Atom has been slowing for a while now. We see…
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Happy New Year! Here's your WakaTime code stats for 2021. In 2021, more than 300k developers spent a combined 39 million hours programming, tracked with WakaTime text editor plugins. The average perso…
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If you’ve worked with Go before, you’ve probably seen this runtime error. panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference The current solution is checking thevar != nil before …
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For production web servers, most people assume scaling means needing faster (and more expensive) hardware. Before spending more money on servers, first make sure your web server process is using the m…
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WakaTime’s infra is split across DigitalOcean and AWS. We use DigitalOcean Droplets for compute resources, AWS S3 to store code stats, and DigitalOcean Spaces for backups. You can find more info on th…
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Redis is an in-memory database with very high write and read speed, and a limitation that data sets can’t be larger than available RAM. It’s like memcached but supports data structures instead of just…
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Alan Hamlett
Alan Hamlett
