A decade ago I lived on the west side of Los Angeles. One of my favorite conferences was Southern California Linux Expo. Much like Karen, this is the conference where I performed my first technical talk. It’s also where I met and became friends with great people like Jono, Ted, Jeff, the fantastic organizing staff, … Continue reading Flatpak at SCaLE 15x
One of the great powers of namespace APIs on Linux (mount namespaces, user namespaces, etc) is that you can create a new view into the world of your computer that is very different from the host. This can make traditional profiling tools difficult. To begin with, we need to ensure that we have access to … Continue reading Profiling Flatpak’d applications
First off, I’ll be in Portland at the first ever LAS giving demos and starting on Builder features for 3.24. For a while now, you’ve been able to get Builder from the gnome-apps-nightly Flatpak repository. Until now, it had a few things that made it difficult to use. We care a whole lot about making … Continue reading Builder Nightly Flatpak
Now that we have a Gjs profiler we can start looking at doing some fun things with it. Today I wrote a couple line patch to GNOME Shell to toggle on and off the profiler using SIGUSR2. So if you build Gjs and gnome-shell with the appropriate patches, you can do something like: If you … Continue reading GNOME Shell Profiling
So now that you are all aware that I’ve been working to modernize Sysprof, you might not be surprised to read that I decided to push things in a bit more interesting of a direction. I have a very opinionated stance on languages. Which is, in general, they’re all terrible. Only to be made more … Continue reading A profiler of our own
So this happened… Everything is still sort of a work-in-progress, but soon I expect to have patches for all the right people in all the right places. There is a lot of slight-of-hand going on here, so it’s worth taking some time to get the details documented.
One of the tools we often find ourselves using when working on GTK+ is sysprof. While doing some profiling recently, I got annoyed that it was one of the few programs on my system that required GTK+ 2.x. I decided to improve things over the last week and see if we can make something that … Continue reading Making profiling easy