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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 25, 2023,

updated Feb 25, 2023

Proposal Announced for Better Flathub Experience with GNOME & KDE Foundation

Linux Kernel and Graphics Work: Booting, Zink, and PanCSF

↺ autoform

APITable Is An Open-source Low-code Solution and Airtable Alternative

↺ APITable Is An Open-source Low-code Solution and Airtable Alternative

> APITable is a free open-source and self-hosted API-oriented low-code platform for building collaborative apps and better than all other Airtable open-source alternatives.

Spidermonkey Development Blog: JavaScript Import maps, Part 1: Introduction

↺ Spidermonkey Development Blog: JavaScript Import maps, Part 1: Introduction

> We recently shipped import maps in Firefox 108 and this article is the first in a series that describes what they are and the problems they can solve. In this first article, we will go through the background and basics of import maps and follow up with a second article explaining more details of import maps.

> If you don’t know JavaScript modules, you can read the MDN docs for JavaScript Modules first, and there are also some related articles on Mozilla Hacks like ES6 In Depth: Modules and ES modules: A cartoon deep-dive. If you are already familiar with them, then you are probably familiar with static import and dynamic import. As a quick refresher: [...]

↺ JavaScript Modules

↺ ES6 In Depth: Modules

↺ ES modules: A cartoon deep-dive

↺ static import

↺ dynamic import

↺ JavaScript Modules

↺ ES6 In Depth: Modules

↺ ES modules: A cartoon deep-dive

↺ static import

↺ dynamic import

Post-mortem: Downtime on February 23, 2023

↺ Post-mortem: Downtime on February 23, 2023

> Some maintenance operations plus a missing configuration rollback caused a 20 minutes certificate error on our reference server. In the lines below you will find a detailed explanation of what happened. Impact Our reference server was providing an wrong/ outdated certificate for around 20 minutes.

Safely clone a job on a production instance

↺ Safely clone a job on a production instance

> When developing new openQA tests you will have to run a lot of verification and debug test runs. This is why I typically encourage people to do all openQA testing on their own instances, to prevent spamming of the production instances.

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