Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 31, 2023
This edition contains the following feature content:
- Mastering Emacs: reviewing a book on how to use the Emacs editor well.
- Python is (mostly) made of syntactic sugar: a conference exercise on how to pare Python down to a minimal core.
- A more dynamic software I/O TLB: a kernel subsystem once created for substandard hardware is finding a number of new uses and must evolve to match.
- Development statistics for the 6.5 kernel: where the contributions to the 6.5 kernel came from.
- The OpenSprinkler controller: an Internet-of-things device that tries to do it right.
This week's edition also includes these inner pages:
- Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
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