Blogs

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2021-41.


Key witness in Assange case jailed in Iceland after admitting to lies and ongoing crime spree

Tags: assange, wikileaks

How a court case crumbles… there is nothing meaningful in the Assange case. Makes it all the more obvious that it is purely political.

https://stundin.is/grein/14117/


How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha

Tags: tech, dotnet, free-software, microsoft

More details coming out about the .NET Foundation drama. This indeed looks bad and concerning regarding the stewardship of this foundation.

https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2021/10/6/how-the-.net-foundation-kerfuffle-became-a-brouhaha/


20 Things I’ve Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer

Tags: tech, programming, craftsmanship

This is an excellent list, I admit I agree with most of it. Couple of those realizations are in fact a deep part of what I do.

https://www.simplethread.com/20-things-ive-learned-in-my-20-years-as-a-software-engineer/


The small web is beautiful

Tags: tech, web, minimalism

Goes a bit in various directions but still interesting food for thought on the various way to strive for tech minimalism in what we produce.

https://benhoyt.com/writings/the-small-web-is-beautiful/


Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines.

Tags: tech, virtualization, desktop

This looks like a simple and efficient tool for the task. I also like the fact that it’s just a bunch of bash scripts.

https://github.com/wimpysworld/quickemu


WSLg Architecture

Tags: tech, windows, Wayland, linux

Interesting integration of Wayland in WSL.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/wslg-architecture/


3 TypeScript Tricks I wish I knew when I learned TypeScript

Tags: tech, typescript

The ReadOnly and unknown type tricks are especially interesting to improve the type safety further with this language.

https://www.cstrnt.dev/blog/three-typescript-tricks


On KDE’s 25th Anniversary

Tags: tech, kde, free-software

I couldn’t end this week review without mentioning this. :-)

Happy birthday indeed! 25 years already! Still young, lots more to come.

https://25years.kde.org/



Bye for now!