today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 01, 2026

• Server

  • Kubernetes Blog ☛ Kubernetes 1.35: Enhanced Debugging with Versioned z-pages APIs

    Debugging Kubernetes control plane components can be challenging, especially when you need to quickly understand the runtime state of a component or verify its configuration. With Kubernetes 1.35, we're enhancing the z-pages debugging endpoints with structured, machine-parseable responses that make it easier to build tooling and automate troubleshooting workflows.

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • The Ask Noah Show ☛ Ask Noah Show: Ask Noah show 473

    This week Steve reviews Expedition 33. We take your feedback, and Steve builds a new PC and talks motherboard.

• Games

  • Boiling Steam ☛ New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, including Street Basket Challenge - 2025-12-24 Edition

    Between 2025-12-17 and 2025-12-24 there were 34 New Steam games released with Native GNU/Linux clients. The week before Christmas is usually not a busy week, so as expected there was not a lot of heavy weight activity, but there’s Street Basket Challenge that looked like a cool little game.

  • CCC ☛ CSS Clicker Training: Making games in a "styling" language

    CSS is a programming language, and you can make games in it. Let's install NoScript and make some together!

    This talk is about how HTML and CSS can be used to make interactive art and games, without using any JS or server-side code.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • University of Toronto ☛ My ideal Linux source package format (at the moment)

    This sketch leaves a lot of questions open, such as what 'source packages' should look like when published by distributions. One answer is to publish the VCS repository but that's potentially quite heavyweight, so you might want a more minimal form. However, once you create a 'source only' minimal form without the VCS history, you're going to want a way to disentangle your local changes from the upstream source.

  • Open Hardware/Modding

    • Andrew Hutchings ☛ Reviving a Roland SoundBrush: Floppy MIDI Playback Without the Computer

      Back in the 80s and early 90s, when games often came on floppy disks, the music came in MIDI format. If you have never heard of MIDI, this is a standard way for electronic instruments to communicate the notes being played.

  • Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

    • University of Toronto ☛ A little bit of complex design in phone "Level" applications

      For years, this application seemed pretty trivial and obvious to me, with the only somewhat complex bit being figuring out how the person is holding the phone to determine which sort of level they wanted and then adjusting the display to clearly reflect that (while keeping it readable, something that Apple's current efforts partially fail). Then I had a realization: [...]