2024.10.28 - Linux Update MAINTAINERS

Title: 2024.10.28 – Linux Update MAINTAINERS

Seven Pages & Computer use & Vitality & Equanimity & Persistence and Depth

This Week’s Highlights

Linux Update MAINTAINERS https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/988 Follow 6e90b67, remove some entries due to various compliance requirements. They cannot come back in the future as Huawei is sanctioned by most freedom‑supporting countries in the world.

What You Can Learn from Just Seven Pages by Hannah Arendt https://www.honest-broker.com/p/what-you-can-learn-from-just-seven Arendt is a constant source of inspiration for me. In this book she warns us about technologists who are dangerous because they are completely out of touch with their humanity. She wrote it in the mid‑1950s, yet you might think she was living in Silicon Valley today.

Introducing computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use We’re also launching a groundbreaking new capability in public beta: computer use. Available today on the API, developers can direct Claude to use computers the way people do—by looking at a screen, moving a cursor, clicking buttons, and typing text. Related:

• OpenAI: Simplifying, stabilizing, and scaling continuous‑time consistency models
• Google DeepMind: New generative AI tools open the doors of music creation
• Generative AI Scripting
• Transformers.js v3: WebGPU Support, New Models & Tasks, and More…
• Skyvern: Automate browser‑based workflows with LLMs and Computer Vision

In‑Depth Reading

Help us choose the final syntax for Masonry in CSS https://webkit.org/blog/16026/css-masonry-syntax/ Can browser engines handle Grid + Masonry while staying lightning fast? Over the last six months the key performance concerns have been addressed. Yes, it is possible to integrate Masonry layout with the full power of CSS Grid. Our engineers at Apple have been hard at work collaborating with colleagues at Google and the CSS Working Group (CSSWG) to hammer out the details.

Attacking browser extensions https://github.blog/security/vulnerability-research/attacking-browser-extensions/ Learn about browser‑extension security and secure your extensions with the help of CodeQL.

How Vercel adopted micro‑frontends https://vercel.com/blog/how-vercel-adopted-microfrontends See how Vercel cut build times and boosted developer velocity while preserving a smooth user experience with micro‑frontends.

Why I’m skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in “faster” languages https://nolanlawson.com/2024/10/20/why-im-skeptical-of-rewriting-javascript-tools-in-faster-languages/ I’ve written a lot of JavaScript. I like JavaScript. More importantly, I’ve built a set of skills in understanding, optimizing, and debugging JavaScript that I’m reluctant to give up. So it’s natural that I feel a knot in my stomach over the current mania to rewrite every Node.js tool in a “faster” language like Rust, Zig, Go, etc.

How to improve the developer experience in today’s e‑commerce world https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/10/23/improve-developer-experience-ecommerce-fastlane-paypal-sponsored/ We walk through designing an SDK that makes it easy for developers to integrate new technology into their e‑commerce stack while remaining flexible enough for both small businesses and large enterprises.

Fresh Finds

WebStorm and Rider Are Now Free for Non‑Commercial Use Svelte 5 is alive Next.js 15 React Native 0.76 – New Architecture by default, React Native DevTools, and more

Products & Others

Press the belly, know the whole body’s ailments https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/l9WUvfmj9ovlJCdUmvMMQA Renowned traditional‑medicine master Li Ke‑Li Lao places great emphasis on abdominal diagnosis when assessing critical and abdominal‑related diseases. He says, “Abdominal diagnosis is the key to determining deficiency vs. excess, cold vs. heat, interior vs. exterior, and the location of the disease.”

The ultimate solution to many lingering troubles may be love https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/0Ax5kArDiwjqVEk8mu6YCQ After years of counseling, I’ve realized growth isn’t a single point but a series of waves, like the sea. Deep‑seated shifts—e.g., moving from “I never think I’m good” to “I consider myself good”—are hard to articulate. In my old mental state I didn’t even notice my self‑denial and self‑attack. Once I began affirming myself, the difference became obvious. This newly cultivated love radiates into every moment of life, reshaping my mindset and behavior; it feels like rebirth.

Li Xin | Vitality Is Not Karma https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/gBa7UBPdWjhZTLymSAOFwg Vitality isn’t karma. Vitality is the driving force behind life’s development, akin to light, which can be bright or dim. Karma, on the other hand, can be seen as the habitual outlet of vitality—often a bias toward good or bad, virtue or vice. It’s like a lampshade with various patterns; the light passing through casts different shapes on the wall, creating diverse life experiences.

Cai Zhizhong: Reject Restlessness, Cultivate an Ordinary Mind https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/mYaAgerooQim8ZRrieHIHA Life is a practice; the key is to cultivate an ordinary mind. We face countless situations; if we are constantly restless and anxious, we lack wisdom. This unsettled mindset harms both the course of events and our mental‑physical health. Therefore, nurture a calm, ordinary mind and keep the spirit tranquil.

Liu Lihong | Every Path Requires Persistence and Depth https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/JFTUHGq4XRKWtYiC6M55wQ My eight years of experience—or rather my sixty‑plus years of life—tells me that any discipline, whether we are learning, transmitting, or building a career, is never simple. People may appear simple, but the matters themselves are not. How we approach them matters. I’ve seen and lived through many things. When we cannot keep a simple heart, we become tangled in peripheral concerns—people, events, trivialities. That complexity can hinder, obstruct, even destroy our deep engagement and transmission of a given field.

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Originally written by Ping Xia (平侠) and published in Chinese on Web技术周刊 (Web Tech Weekly). Translated and adapted for DriftSeas with permission.