Development Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 17, 2024

• Fedora Family / IBM

  • Red Hat ☛ Red Hat Developer Hub: Your gateway to seamless development

    Red Hat Developer Hub is now generally available. This article introduces Developer Hub and explains how it streamlines the development process. We also dive into the core concepts to ensure you're well-equipped to use Red Bait Developer Hub to leverage the power of Backstage in your projects.

    What is Backstage?

    In the dynamic world of software development, teamwork and efficiency are essential, and the Backstage project promises to simplify and save development teams headaches. Originally created by Spotify and shared as an open source project with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Backstage serves as a central hub for development teams, enabling the software development life cycle to become more manageable, accelerating new member onboarding, and centralizing resources required for specific projects. Backstage aids in the management of the overwhelming number of development tools by acting as a central repository from which stakeholders can access relevant information and resources with as little friction as possible. 

• Programming

  • Rlang ☛ Satellite Data with R: Unveiling Earth’s Surface Using the ICESat2R Package

    The R Consortium recently connected with Lampros Sp. Mouselimis, the creator of the ICESat2R package, discussing the ICESat-2 mission, a significant initiative in understanding the Earth’s surface dynamics.

  • Rlang ☛ Data Visualization of the WBL Index and Modeling with Quantile Regression using Random Forest

    As we enter the new year, women still seem not to have equal rights compared to men in the working environment. This situation is more prominent in the developing and least developed countries. This article will examine that using the WBL (women, business, and law) index.

  • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

    • New programming language needed for KDE?

      Disclaimer: I am not one of KDE's masterminds or spokespersons. I am a mere bystander with few unimportant commits. I follow KDE's ecosystem and other developments in the free software world. In the following, I share some thoughts and my personal opinion.

      Talks about new programming languages

      After 30 years of C code, the GNU/Linux kernel opens itself to a second high-level language: Rust. Since fall of 2022 the kernel mainly gained infrastructure work. Some experiments show promising results like a Rust-based network driver or a scheduler.

  • GNOME Desktop/GTK

    • Sam Thursfield: Status update, 16/01/2024

      Happy new year everyone! For better or worse we’re now well into the 2020s.

      Here are some things I’ve been doing recently.

      A post on the GNOME openQA tests: Looking back to 2023 and forwards to 2024. I won’t repeat the post here, go read it and see what I hope to see in 2024 with regards to QA testing.