Blogs

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2021-28.

83% of Developers Suffer From Burnout, Haystack Analytics Study Finds

Tags: tech, burnout

The rampant burnout epidemic in software engineering keeps growing apparently. More workload, more impatient stakeholders and less quality… With software being everywhere nowadays this is a huge problem to tackle.

https://www.usehaystack.io/blog/83-of-developers-suffer-from-burnout-haystack-analytics-study-finds

Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot · GitHub

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, github

I think this is the best analysis about GitHub Copilot so far. Clearly using it in production today carries lots of risks. It might improve in the future but only marginally and likely with quite some effort. Not sure it’ll pass the threshold to be anything else than a funny toy.

https://gist.github.com/0xabad1dea/be18e11beb2e12433d93475d72016902

A privacy war is raging inside the W3C - Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech

Tags: tech, web, privacy

Or why we can’t expect much from the W3C regarding privacy… I wonder the chances of this kind of entrenched debates actually just killing the W3C…

https://www.protocol.com/policy/w3c-privacy-war

Martin Heinz | Functools - The Power of Higher-Order Functions in Python

Tags: tech, programming, python

A nice list of interesting nuggets from the functools python module.

https://martinheinz.dev/blog/52

Bye for now!