Weekly Shaarli
Week 12 (March 22, 2021)

Web Development History is an excellent resource on different aspects of web development history.

The latest stable release of Grafana comes with a new and improved pie chart panel, alerting support for Loki, a Grafana Tempoo backend data source, and many other improvements.

This short post explains how to use different git usernames and email addresses per directory.
The author discusses which supply chain attacks aren't covered by sigstore.
Nokia has transferred the copyright of Plan 9 to the Plan 9 Foundation.

This in-depth article shows how LinkedIn Engineering improved the capacity projections on their site.

Plausible is a privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics, compliant with GDPR.

The git maintenance
command is probably the most notable feature of this newest release of Git.

This article summarizes Seagate's long-term HDD technology roadmap.
»Cognitively-Oriented Approach to Improving Program Readability«
Links is a text-based open-source web browser.
The Debian project released a fresh point release, including the latest bug fixes and security updates.
A new stable version of the popular desktop environment was released, the first one following the project's new versioning scheme.

The author gives some good reasons why the omnipresent DBMS should not be underestimated.
The performance impact of a new CPU scheduler for AMD EPYC in VMware vSphere 7.0 U2 is described in this document by VMware.

This is an interesting write-up of a PostgreSQL performance issue.
»Starting with Firefox 87, we set the default Referrer Policy to 'strict-origin-when-cross-origin' which will trim user sensitive information accessible in the URL.«
Focalboard is an open-source, self-hosted project management software.
This post takes a deep dive into several bugs inside the iSCSI subsystem of the Linux kernel.

»FreeBSD 13.0 comes out at the end of March. Take a look at what's new in the upcoming release.«

Based on the TOPDB Top Database index, this post gives an overview of the most widely used DBMS since 2006.
Version 2 of Checkmk comes with an overhauled user interface.

Short post-mortem on a Grafana Cloud Prometrheus outage.
This post explains the issue of DoS against regular expressions. The authors also introduce their tool regexploit
, which helps analyze regular expressions against such vulnerabilities.
cosign
is part of the sigstore project to make the open-source software supply chain more secure. In this post, the author describes how to use the cosign
tool to sign container images.
ssss
is a practical implementation of a secret sharing scheme, a method for distributing a secret amongst a group of participants.
Buildroot is a simple, efficient, and easy-to-use tool to generate embedded Linux systems through cross-compilation.
This paper describes the prototype for the onboard scheduler of the Mars 2020 rover.
Paper on the efforts of porting OpenBSD to the RISC-V ISA.