+ A blast from the past:
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I started teaching in higher education organizations when I was still a student. That was more than 20 years ago. I’ve never stopped since then. I’ve taught in different kind of organizations (i.e. engineering schools, universities, and applied science schools) and two different countries, France and Switzerland.
A common trait among all those jobs was the requirement to teach on-site. In fact, my current employer goes to the point of specifying it explicitly in its regulations. Or to be completely accurate, while you are actually allowed to teach remotely, only on-site hours are paid. Because I travel quite frequently, this is a big issue for me. The CoVid-19 pandemics, and the associated mandatory quarantine, changed this policy overnight. Now, all courses must happen online to prevent the spread of the virus.
- Postgres Superpowers in Practice
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A great post that highlights not all magic should happen in the code. We can save a lot of work by relying on tools readily available.
- Web Locks API
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The Web Locks API allows scripts running in one tab or worker to asynchronously acquire a lock, hold it while work is performed, then release it. While held, no other script executing in the same origin can acquire the same lock, which allows a web app running in multiple tabs or workers to coordinate work and the use of resources.
- Somebody moved UK’s oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why
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>And now for something completely different
- Starter Pack directory to ease your way in to Bluesky
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The Guardian will no longer posts on Twitter, I’ve seen multiple accounts leaving, and I’ve more than doubled my number of followers on Bluesky. The problem when starting on a new social network is finding accounts to follow. Starter packs are lists of accounts grouped by themes, or by any other other criteria the creator decided to use. Head to the directory and filter by your tastes.
Shameless self-promotion: follow me also.
- Jaeger v2 released: OpenTelemetry in the core!
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Yet something else to try!
- How to set your domain as your handle
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More Bluesky stuff.
- Return to the office
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- Online validator and visualizer for OpenTelemetry Collector configuration
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I found myself writing a config file after some time and the tool helped me a lot getting the syntax right.
- Injecting Auto-instrumentation
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TIL: OpenTelemetry can instrument your container in a Kubernetes environment.
I’m in the process of migrating my OpenTelemetry Tracing demo to Kubernetes and I found this gem. It works via Sidecar injection (by default). It also works for Apache httpd and Nginx.
- A probable GitHub community manager mistake
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Gloo is a well-known Open Source project. On October 2024, its number of GitHub stars was 4079, as one can attest from the Wayback machine. Its number of GitHub stars today is 6.
Somebody did a big mistake; probably set the visibility to private and back again.
- Discovering the perfect Java Supply Chain Attack vector and how it got fixed
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Amazing research! It reads like a murder mystery.