mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+pr-40283-7f6b1dcSoftware developer, fell runner, caver.
Interested in the outdoors, environment, software maintenance, and copious photos of stiles and industrial heritage.
Today I found out that strace --fault=$syscall exists and allows you to inject faults (error returns) into syscalls without modifying the source program or building an awkward test harness (as I have been doing in my life so far).
Another tool for the belt, excellent
GNOME 50 has been released! 🥳
Here’s a quick summary of the improvements which gnome-software 50 contains:
- Reduce CPU priority when running in the background
- Remember window size between restarts
- Improved error reporting in the repositories dialogue
- Improved notifications for trivial flatpak app updates
- Lots of UI papercuts fixed
- Improved question about deleting data when uninstalling an app
- More safety reporting for uncommon flatpak app permissions
CI systems should not silently upgrade their components in the background. A CI system should be a reproducible function: for the same CI image and project code, the build results should always be the same.
Tools should be predictable, or one job turns into multiple when you least want it to.