Programming Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 14, 2023

• Git 2.40.0 released [Ed: LWN acting as if Microsoft now owns Git, links as authoritative source to Microsoft's proprietary attack on Git, which is moreover using Git repositories to attack the GPL and destroy communities]

  Version 2.40.0 of the Git source-code management system is out. Changes include a new --merge-base option for merges, a built-in implementation of bisection, Emacs support for git jump, a fair number of smallish user-interface tweaks, and a lot of bug fixes. See the announcement and this GitHub blog entry for the details.

• GitLab’s stock plummets as company forecasts much slower revenue growth

  Shares of GitLab Inc. cratered in extended trading today after the DevOps company reported revenue guidance for the coming quarter and full year that fell some way short of Wall Street’s expectations.

• Announcing the Schedule for cdCon + GitOpsCon North America 2023

• Russell Coker: Firebuild

  After reading Bálint’s blog post about Firebuild (a compile cache) [1] I decided to give it a go. It’s non-free, the project web site [2] says that it’s free for non-commercial use or commercial trials.

  My first attempt at building a Debian package failed due to man-recode using a seccomp() sandbox, I filed Debian bug #1032619 [3] about this (thanks for the quick response Bálint). The solution for me was to edit /etc/firebuild.conf and add man-recode to the dont_intercept list. The new version that’s just been uploaded to Debian fixes it by disabling seccomp() and will presumably allow slightly better performance.

  Here are the results of building the refpolicy package with Firebuild, a regular build, the first build with Firebuild (30% slower) and a rebuild with Firebuild that reduced the time by almost 42%.

• What can you code up in an hour?

  For most people, the tradeoff is not between language A and language B but between language A and doing the task by hand.

• Fixing The Reply Count

  There are a number of issues with the decentralized nature of the Fediverse. One of them is that we are not seeing replies from people we do not follow.

• 2023-03-12 adoc-mode Reborn

• rakudoweekly 2023.11 Ainions

  Anton Antonov was on a roll again this week!