If you’re a PhDer, you’ve probably heard these terms thrown around in seminars, thesis committees, and paper reviews: “What’s your contribution?” and “Why is thi…| patter
Among all activities I’ve been doing at Bootlin during the past few months, one has been to add support for the Maxim MAX7360 Key-Switch Controller and LED Driver/GPIOs chip to the Linux kernel. Together with my colleague Kamel Bouhara, we developed Linux kernel device drivers to support it and upstreamed them to the mainline kernel. … Continue reading "Adding support for the MAX7360 keypad controller in the Linux kernel"| Bootlin
If you’re deep in the throes of doctoral work, you’ve probably had that moment where someone asks you about your “contribution to knowledge” and you freeze up like a deer in headlights. You might have solid claims emerging from your research, but somehow articulating your actual contribution feels impossibly abstract. Claims and contributions are related […]| patter
I just submitted a MySQL Contribution and I would like to gather feedback about it. Depending on the received feedback, I might submit an updated contribution. The contribution is Counters for Slow InnoDB Sync Reads, and its goal is to make MySQL easier to operate on “complex” IO subsystems (like network drives in the cloud). The bug report / feature request Bug #117740 :| J-F Gagné's MySQL Blog
A month ago, I announced that I am working on a MySQL Contribution to add database / schema in the slow query log file (bug report, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and MySQL Community Slack). My contribution is ready, and before submitting it, I would like feedback, so I am writing this post as a Request for Comments (RFC). If you are in a hurry, you can go directly to the RFC Fake PR.&| J-F Gagné's MySQL Blog
Linux 6.17 was released a bit over a week ago, and as usual LWN.net gave the best summary of the new features and important changes in this release: part 1, part 2. As usual, Bootlin contributed to this kernel, with a total of 98 patches authored by Bootlin engineers, but also another 94 patches that … Continue reading "Linux 6.17 released, Bootlin contributions inside"| Bootlin
Open Source Survival Guide provides practical rules for navigating the open source ecosystem. Learn how to balance community collaboration with business goals, contribute effectively, build trust, and maintain your sanity in the complex world of open source software development.| Chris Short
Plus de 22000 km de conduites de gaz ont été cartographiées par la communauté OSM en France, cet article détaille le travail de la communauté au fil des années.| OpenStreetMap France
According to Bank of America, Raymond James Financial and city administrators, St. Petersburg is well-positioned to contribute $287.5 million toward the Historic Gas Plant District’s over $6.5 billion redevelopment. However, some council members remain unconvinced of the city’s ability to service that debt over three decades of economic uncertainty without raising taxes or taking much-needed [...]| St Pete Catalyst
Les gestionnaires des réseaux électriques et des contributeurs OpenStreetMap produisent des données pour s'adapter au changement climatique.| OpenStreetMap France
This is very short post mostly just to make it indexed by Google. With Slack deleting the content after a year on the Free plan, I decided to try to switch our household to Mattermost. Here is a simple gist that does that. import json import os import argparse import| Daniel Hnyk
If you are using Terraform as a way to provide infrastructure/services to outside teams, your Terraform definitions and variables may initially be owned by your team alone, with all “tf apply” operations done by trusted internal group members at the CLI. But once there is a certain amount of maturity in the solution, the Terraform ... Terraform: external yaml file as a contribution model for outside teams| Fabian Lee : Software Engineer
(See a short English version bellow) Učíme naši dceru číst a psát a jedna z věcí co ji baví je psát jako její táta na počítači. První problém je, že klávesnice mají obvykle písmena velkým písmem, ale to se zdá děti docela zvládají celkem v pohodě i když většinou preferují| Daniel Hnyk
This is the fourth post from my series about raising our daughter as non-native speakers #1#2#3#4 and it's going to be slightly shorter than the previous posts. English speaking kindergarten About 6 months ago we decided that we are going to place our daughter to an English-only| Daniel Hnyk
Shrnul jsem svůj pohled pro mou rodinu a přátele v tomto dokumentu.| Daniel Hnyk
This is the third post from my series about raising our daughter as non-native speakers #1#2#3#4 It's going to be much shorter than the previous ones, but I feel that I want to write these down for myself. First, I would like to summarize what we do/| Daniel Hnyk
I had a client who used a terrible solution for their data manipulation. All the transforming script were written in a DSL of some weird proprietary software, which didn't scale, cost thousands of bucks per licence, was slow, ignored errors, zero examples... One example would be to create a Python| Daniel Hnyk
This is my attempt to create a guide which would give you the most value with the least complexity and time. It's by no means complete, super strictly correct (I simplify a lot) and there surely may be better guides then this. Here is what I would love if my| Daniel Hnyk
A handy flow-chart if you are confused about when commits happen to| A Scripter's Notes
This is an open-sourced website hosted on github pages! If you wish to contribute or have a cool idea to share or even a cool challenge which can be put up as an assignment, this is the correct page you are looking at.| deuterium’s blog