From Wikipedia's homepage: "Did you know...that the #Tokio platform for the #Rust programming language uses a work stealing scheduler?"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokio_(software)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_stealing
Today's #MediaWiki security release fixes a pretty bad wiki-leak: https://w.wiki/4ZAeThere's a pretty simple mitigation that can be applied via configuration in LocalSettings.php if you can't patch immediately.Fixes are out for Debian packages, the "official" Docker image, and should land in my Ubuntu PPA for focal/bionic shortly...
Who knew there were other ways to debug software??
Trying Advent of Code 2021, we'll see how long I go until I get bored or find them too difficult.https://gitlab.com/legoktm/advent-of-code-2021 has my answers from the first 3 days so far.
My @member.fsf.org email address has expired and unfortunately I don't intend to renew it in the near future.https://legoktm.com/w/index.php?title=Contact has my current email addresses and other methods of contact.
I wrote for the #Wikipedia Signpost this month about how #MediaWiki details with file uploads on the backend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-11-29/Technology_report
The first typewriter I've ever used (and built)!
Generational differences:My mom gets PG&E notifications via a phone call and I get them via text message.
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I'm about 70% done rewriting one of my Wikipedia bots into Rust from Python. Reduced the runtime from 12+ hours to under 10 minutes.I suspect the final runtime will end up being no more than 15-20 minutes.Yay for fearless concurrency ^.^
Taylor Swift once again reminding us how important it is to own our own copyrights.
I wrote a tutorial on how to deploy a #Rust web application on Wikimedia's #Toolforge platform: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/My_first_Rust_toolIt uses #Rocket and demonstrates how to make queries against #Wikipedia's MariaDB replicas.
cargo-hack is the coolest #Rust testing tool I've learned about so far:
Things that have a better claim to the name "Meta": Meta-Wiki an IRC channel I'm in me (misspelled) The other MetaWiki
https://comicbook.com/irl/news/gary-paulsen-writer-of-ya-hatchet-novels-dies-at-82/ :(Hatchet and Winterdance are two of my favorite books, and my very worn copies still sit atop my bookshelf.
