Blogs

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2022-06.

Mark Zuckerberg and team consider shutting down Facebook and Instagram in Europe if Meta can not process Europeans’ data on US servers

Tags: tech, facebook, surveillance

That sounds great to me. Could they do it already please?

https://www.cityam.com/mark-zuckerberg-and-team-consider-shutting-down-facebook-and-instagram-in-europe-if-meta-can-not-process-europeans-data-on-us-servers/

Thank you, Valve

Tags: tech, valve, linux, gaming

Thank you indeed. The amount of upstream contributions their efforts fostered is enormous at this point.

https://kinduff.com/2022/02/06/thank-you-valve/

KDE: A Nice Tiling Environment and a Surprisingly Awesome DE

Tags: tech, KDE

It is nice to hear from a happy user from time to time. And yes, KWin is a very nice tiling environment once you have the right extensions (I use Bismuth and dynamic virtual desktops nowadays). I’m fairly happy with those.

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10338-kde-a-nice-tiling-envieonment-and-a-surprisingly-awesome-de

On finding the average of two unsigned integers without overflow

Tags: tech, c++, assembly, programming

You thought averaging two unsigned was trivial? Think again, here what needs to happen in all its glory.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220207-00/?p=106223

What’s in a Good Error Message?

Tags: tech, programming, logging

Excellent article about best practices for logging errors, most of it applies for other type of logs though.

https://www.morling.dev/blog/whats-in-a-good-error-message/

Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel

Tags: tech, cloudflare, networking, self-hosting

This looks like a nice way to somewhat safely expose self-hosted services to the outside.

https://erisa.dev/exposing-a-web-service-with-cloudflare-tunnel/

The Fall of Scrum?

Tags: tech, agile, scrum

This asks very valid questions. I’m a bit less optimistic than in the conclusion though… I suspect that if it truly falls, it will be replaced by another cargo cult.

https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-z022/01121/fall-of-scrum/

Interview Questions to Ask Your Interviewer

Tags: hr, interviews

As I keep saying to people I interview… it’s also about you interviewing us! I wish I had more questions from them. This list is a bit biased to some type of companies but that’s a good starting point.

https://daveceddia.com/interview-questions-to-ask-company/

Bye for now!