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Glean Memory Usage Reporting

https://fnordig.de/2025/05/28/glean-memory-usage-reporting

Published: May 28, 2025 12:00

(This article is cross-posted on the Data@Mozilla blog.) Since Bug 1896609 landed we now have Glean & Firefox on Glean (FOG) memory reporting built into the Firefox Memory Reporter. This allows us to measure the allocated memory in use by Glean and FOG.…

Go read April Cools'

https://fnordig.de/2025/04/01/go-read-april-cools

Published: April 1, 2025 09:13

Go read April Cools' posts today. I don't have one of my own today.

State of Maintenance: rdb-rs

https://fnordig.de/2025/03/29/state-of-maintenance-rdb-rs

Published: March 29, 2025 15:39

Back in 2015 when I was learning Rust I started rdb-rs, a library and tool to parse the Redis database file format (known as RDB). I only ever published 4 versions of it, the last one in August 2016. I eventually marked the repository as read-only and…

Seven-year Moziversary

https://fnordig.de/2025/03/03/seven-year-moziversary

Published: March 3, 2025 09:50

In March 2018 I started a job as a Telemetry engineer at Mozilla. Seven years later I'm still here on my Moziversary, as I was in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. Mozilla is not the same company it was when I joined. No one on the C-level is here for…

My default apps of early 2025

https://fnordig.de/2025/01/21/my-default-apps-of-early-2025

Published: January 21, 2025 07:55

I have not finished my /uses page, but following Sascha's post, here's my list: Mail Client: Thunderbird Mail Server: Postfix + Dovecot Notes: Obsidian, Scratch1 To-Do: Obsidian iPhone Photo Shooting: Camera, NightCap Photo Management: Apple Photos,…

2024 in many words and some photos

https://fnordig.de/2024/12/31/2024-in-many-words

Published: December 31, 2024 22:59

It has become a tradition for me to look at the year that's about to end. I did so in 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2014. So here comes the 2024 edition (later than usual, but I still date it to the correct year). My year in…

A Lil data processing

https://fnordig.de/2024/12/30/a-lil-data-processing

Published: December 30, 2024 09:00

As I mentioned before I've been playing around with Lil and I like it so far. So much that for a side project I wrote yet another small one-off script in Lil. The scenario I have a git repository with various files, each of which contains coordinates of a…

A Lil Advent of Code

https://fnordig.de/2024/12/20/a-lil-advent-of-code

Published: December 20, 2024 19:00

This post won't include too much explanation. I wanted a place to at least put my code and that's what I have a blog for. It's December, so everyone is doing Advent of Code. I'm not. Or so I told myself. This week, while on vacation, I had some downtime…

Texttools dot tcl

https://fnordig.de/2024/11/03/texttools-dot-tcl

Published: November 3, 2024 16:30

Recently I read Hillel Wayne's article about his texttools.py implementation. I also looked into Tcl a bit. So what better way than to combine these too and port his Python implementation (which was already using Tk) to Tcl (and Wish). The functionality is…

rsyncing my RSS feed database

https://fnordig.de/2024/10/28/rsyncing-my-rss-feed-database

Published: October 28, 2024 19:45

At the moment I'm using a web-based RSS feed reader1. That works, is reliable and accessible from anywhere. However I will soon spend some time with less connectivity and thus were considering my options to have a local feed reader app that works offline.…