Programming Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 29, 2022

• 2022.35 Reworkout - Rakudo Weekly News

  Mitarashi Dango reports that all of the Raku exercises at exercism.org have been reworked, and mentions there are some Raku exercises that need an example solution. Consider yourselves invited!

• Perl Weekly Challenge 180: First Unique Character and Trim List

• ui GUI toolkit for Nim

• The Ultimate List of Open Source Cloud-Native Tools - Container Journal

  There are so many great open source cloud-native tools for nearly everything you want to do. And they’re all in one place—look no further than the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). This Linux Foundation body has become a locus of some stellar cloud-native open source projects. The CNCF now hosts an array of helpful packages, spanning container scheduling, observability, persistent storage, container runtime and other areas.

• Enable Gitsign Today and Start Signing your Commits - DEV Community

  I have been meaning to write this post for some time already, but the extra motivation came after looking at the recent news of PyPI phishing attacks that have compromised several Python library maintainers and their packages.

  The issue of code provenance is ultimately an industry-wide threat that needs to be addressed sooner rather than later. In this post, I will address something rather simple you can do today if you are an open source maintainer and/or contributor, and it can help you attest that the code pushed to a repository really comes from where it's supposed to come: from you.

• Start Signing your Commits with Gitsign

  The issue of code provenance is an industry-wide threat that needs to be addressed, says Erika Heidi. “We need additional layers of security to prove the provenance of code that is committed to a repository, especially when it comes to libraries that are used as dependencies by hundreds or thousands of other projects.”

• A Complete Guide On Open Source Linux Software Development - LinuxTechLab

  There are several important steps, factors, and elements to know about the world of Linux software development. Linux can be thought of an operating system (OS), ecosystem, build environment, platform, and culture. It supports our tech infrastructure, stock exchanges, business servers, and some of the world’s largest supercomputers.

  In fact, the entire Android OS is built on Linux kernels. One of the most interesting facts about Linux is that the actual OS is open source. Even if it can be frustrating and time-consuming at first, learning to develop applications with Linux is certainly a rewarding process. Learning these skills, you can take advantage of one of the most secure, dependable, stable, and scalable operating systems.

• Search API Endpoints, Fully Documented - Open Build Service

  Here we come again, with another piece of the API documentation rework. This time we fully documented the search endpoints.

• Live town-hall meetings with the Membership Committee candidates - The Document Foundation Blog

  The Document Foundation is the non-profit home of LibreOffice, and its Membership Committee (MC) administers membership applications and renewals following the criteria defined in the Foundation’s Statutes.

  The election process for a new MC is underway, and we’ll have live Q&A sessions with the candidates!

• SpiderMonkey Newsletter (Firefox 104-105) | SpiderMonkey JavaScript/WebAssembly Engine

  SpiderMonkey is the JavaScript engine used in Mozilla Firefox. This newsletter gives an overview of the JavaScript and WebAssembly work we’ve done as part of the Firefox 104 and 105 Nightly release cycles.