What am I doing Now?

September 5, 2025

Ubuntu

I am currently working on the next Ubuntu release, questing quokka (25.10). There, I am preparing the next versions of packages in the container stack (docker, containerd, runc) and PostgreSQL.

Debian

I have been mostly forwarding the work I do in Ubuntu to Debian.

Reading

Learning eBPF. This is a nice and practical introductory book on eBPF I used to get started with writting the Ubuntu Server introduction to eBPF.

Studying

I have been going through Crafting Interpreters and implementing the first part of the book in Rust instead of using the book’s code, which is in Java. This way, I can study the 2 topics (compilers and Rust) at the same time. The second part of the book is written in C to show students the issues one may face while having to deal with memory management. I am considering doing that part in RiscV assembly when the time comes. I may need to get myself some RiscV board for that matter though.

This is a now page inspired by the /now page movement.


about

Hi, I am Athos Ribeiro. I am a Software Engineer working at Canonical in the Ubuntu Server team. I am a Debian Developer, an Ubuntu core developer, and a contributor at the Fedora Project

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