Blogs

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2021-36.

Germany wants smartphone makers to offer 7 years of software updates

Tags: tech, repair, smartphone

Now this looks like an interesting move. Let’s see if that delivers.

https://www.xda-developers.com/germany-smartphone-makers-7-years-software-updates/

Minus

Tags: tech, social-media, art

This is a very interesting experiment. What if social media were finite? Which kind of relationship people would develop to them? Would they be less toxic?

https://minus.social/

A curated list of awesome actions to use on GitHub

Tags: tech, github

I don’t like GitHub Actions much if at all. Still, this is a nice curated list which can come in handy when having to work with it.

https://github.com/sdras/awesome-actions

Like jq, but for HTML.

Tags: tech, html, rust

Sounds like a potentially interesting tool especially combined with curl.

https://github.com/mgdm/htmlq

Run GUI applications and desktops in docker. Focus on security.

Tags: tech, docker

Oh very interesting tool. This is likely an interesting path to run your in development build of GUI apps insulated from your system.

https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker

Ship / Show / Ask

Tags: tech, programming, codereview

Not 100% convinced by all the points, but definitely a good conversation to have around the pull/merge request model. Might need a minimum threshold to be crossed in term of team maturity though.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/ship-show-ask.html

Bye for now!