Mozilla and GNU/Linux Development: Spidermonkey, SREcon, EasyOS, and More
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Mike Hoye: Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions
Over on Mastodon I asked: “What modern utilities should be a standard part of a modern unixy distro? Why? I’ve got jq, pandoc, tldr and a few others on my list, but I’d love to know others.”
Here’s what came back; I’ve roughly grouped them into two categories: new utilities and improvements on the classics.
In no particular order, the new kids on the block: [...]
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So, there you go. Life in the terminal is still improving here in 2023, it’s great to see.
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Spidermonkey Development Blog: SpiderMonkey Newsletter (Firefox 110-111)
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 110 and 111 Nightly release cycles.
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Brendan Gregg: USENIX SREcon APAC 2023: CFP
USENIX's SREcon conference is the best venue for learning the latest in systems engineering (not just site reliability engineering) and if you have useful production stories and takeaways to share -- especially if you are in the Asia/Pacific region -- please consider submitting a talk proposal to [SREcon APAC 2023]. The [call for participation] ends on March 2nd, only two weeks away. It is held this year in Singapore, June 14-16, and I'm excited to be program co-chair with fellow Aussie [Jamie Wilkinson]. To quote from our CFP:
You build computer platforms, debug them, and support them, and you have learned something useful to share: You are invited to submit proposals to give talks at SREcon23 Asia/Pacific, which welcomes speakers from a variety of backgrounds, not just SRE, and from a variety of different-sized companies, not just those that are technology-focused. Your insights will help create a relevant, diverse, and inclusive program. Conversations are never complete when they focus just on successes; we encourage talks that focus on lessons learned from failures or hard problems.
At the seventh SREcon Asia/Pacific, we are especially seeking the deepest engineering talks: Those that cover gritty technical internals, advanced tools and techniques, and complex problems that may matter to others, whether your solutions were elegant, ugly, or unsuccessful.
We look forward to learning from speakers across the SRE and systems engineering space. This year we particularly welcome new speakers; many of our best talks have come from people with new perspectives to share and the last few years most certainly has given us all new experiences and stories we can share and from which we can learn.
At every SREcon globally, we welcome and encourage participation from all individuals in any country, including people that are underrepresented in, or excluded from, technology, including but not limited to: people of all colours, women, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, neurodiverse participants, students, veterans, and others with unique characteristics.
Similarly, we welcome participants from diverse professional roles: QA testers, performance engineers, security teams, OS engineers, DBAs, network administrators, compliance experts, UX designers, government employees, and data scientists. Regardless of who you are or the job title you hold, if you are a technologist who faces unique challenges and shares our areas of interest, we encourage you to be a part of SREcon23 Asia/Pacific.
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Zig Bits 0x1: Returning slices from functions
I decided to start a new blog series called "Zig Bits" where I share interesting bits of information about the Zig programming language. It is written especially for beginners because I'm also a beginner.
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The langpack PETs are gone
I have imported part of L18L's German langpack to woofQ:
https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/a6c66b0105dc6e0e8e226232d032cf28c6df151a
The de langpack was last updated in 2020, so some updating is going to be required.
All langpack PETs in the noarch repository have now been removed:
https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/716697979220baca96e1b96c547a9297175f9f46
They are still on ibiblio.org, won't be actually deleted until I perform an rsync.