--- title: "This Week's Node and io.js News - Issue 77" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 77 published_at: "2015-03-12" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/77" --- This Week's Node and io.js News - Issue 77 This week's Node and io.js news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/77) Node WeeklyMarch 12, 2015 #77 Damian Beresford [How to Self Detect a Memory Leak in Node](http://www.nearform.com/nodecrunch/self-detect-memory-leak-node/)A look at using the memwatch and heapdump modules to track memory leaks from within a Node application itself. Tessel [Tessel Switches to io.js for Tessel 2](https://tessel.io/blog/112888410737/moving-faster-with-io-js)Tessel is a JavaScript-powered Node-compatible microcontroller (think an Arduino-like meets JS). For the next version, io.js is being adopted. 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NodeSource [Node 0.12, io.js, and the NodeSource Linux Repositories](https://nodesource.com/blog/nodejs-v012-iojs-and-the-nodesource-linux-repositories)A look at installing Node and io.js on a variety of Debian-based (including Ubuntu) distributions using pre-packaged binaries. Jobs - [Freelance with Companies like Airbnb, IDEO JPMorgan](http://www.toptal.com/developers?utm_source=node_weekly&utm_medium=cpm-newsletter&utm_campaign=node_weekly_job) Work on special projects with great companies through Toptal. Set your weekly/hourly rate, and work from anywhere in the world as an elite HTML5 developer. See if you have what it takes. TopTal - [Node.js Engineer at TES (San Francisco, CA)](http://wikispaces.workable.com/jobs/40877) TES USA, based in San Francisco, is built on a microservices architecture using Node.js, MongoDB, Redis, and Docker. Over 50 million unique visitors come to our sites every month. If you want to be challenged and have real impact, we want to hear from you. 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