Blogs

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2022-11.

Court affirms it’s false advertising to claim software is Open Source when it’s not

Tags: legal, free-software

This is a welcome and necessary clarification. Now there is a court decision clarifying what using the “Commons Clause” mean.

https://opensource.org/court-affirms-its-false-advertising-to-claim-software-is-open-source-when-its-not

Why does Google get internationalization wrong? | Smaller Fish

Tags: tech, web, internationalization

The mess of internationalization with websites doing it wrong.

https://smaller.fish/posts/language

Probably Wrong

Tags: tech, scrum, craftsmanship, tests, object-oriented

Very good reminder that as an industry we’re quick to blame external factors for our own failures. Of course we can be given a bad hand, but sometimes we’d have failed with a good hand as well.

https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-z022/0222ff/probably-wrong/

How to design better APIs

Tags: tech,, web,, api

Nothing groundbreaking regarding web service APIs, but a very reasonable list nonetheless.

https://r.bluethl.net/how-to-design-better-apis

Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation

Tags: tech, 3d, physics, pbr, shader

Looks like a very good resource about PBR.

https://www.pbr-book.org/3ed-2018/contents

H.264 is magic: a technical walkthrough of a remarkable technology.

Tags: tech, video, codec, compression

Nice higher level view of how a codec like H.264 works. Not really dive in the intricate details specific to H.264 though.

https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/

Bye for now!