Blogs

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2022-47.

Open letter for the right to install any software on any device - FSFE

Tags: tech, vendor-lockin, foss

Definitely something to sign, let’s get back some freedom on the device we got in our pocket.

https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/openletter.html

Digital environmental impact evaluation accross organizations

Tags: tech, ecology

I often find tools regarding environmental impacts on the client side. This group seems to focus more on the server side, definitely something to look into.

https://boavizta.org/en

The Fediverse Could Be Awesome (if we don’t screw it up)

Tags: tech, fediverse, social-media

This sudden rise of the Fediverse is indeed a chance. Let’s hope it’s not wasted. Good list of things to pay attention to in this article.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/fediverse-could-be-awesome-if-we-dont-screw-it

ooh.directory

Tags: tech, blog, rss

Woa, that’s definitely welcome. A strong list of blogs to use in your feed aggregator. Time to explore.

https://ooh.directory/

Tree views in CSS

Tags: tech, web, frontend, css

Nice CSS trick to make collapsable trees without too much fuss.

https://iamkate.com/code/tree-views/

An Interactive Guide to Flexbox in CSS

Tags: tech, frontend, browser, css

Nice guide, the interactive parts definitely help. Good way to improve CSS use.

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/interactive-guide-to-flexbox/

Internals of sets and dicts | Fluent Python, the lizard book

Tags: tech, python, performance, optimization

Interesting deep dive on how sets and dicts are implemented in CPython. There are a couple of interesting tricks in there.

https://www.fluentpython.com/extra/internals-of-sets-and-dicts/#_footnoteref_6

Always use [closed, open) intervals. A programmer’s perspective

Tags: tech, programming, mathematics

Good reasons to use [closed, open) intervals. If you didn’t know where it was coming from, here it is.

https://fhur.me/posts/always-use-closed-open-intervals

D2 Tour | D2 Documentation

Tags: tech, diagrams

That looks like a nice declarative language to make diagrams. Missing sequence diagrams but otherwise seems fairly useful and readable.

https://d2lang.com/tour/intro/

Ignore RuboCop changes in Git Blame

Tags: tech, git

Now this is a very interesting trick for git. This way large reformatting commits are less of a concern when exploring commit history.

https://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2022-11-21-rubocop-git-blame/

Inhumanity of Root Cause Analysis – Verica

Tags: tech, complexity, project-management, failure, postmortem

A bit heavy handed in the way it tries to paint Root Cause Analysis as evil. Still it has good points about its shortcomings. In particular I appreciate the emphasis on complexity which indeed points to have contributing factors and unexpected outcomes. Definitely things to keep in mind for any postmortem efforts.

https://www.verica.io/blog/inhumanity-of-root-cause-analysis/

The Ancient Japanese Technique That Produces Lumber Without Cutting Trees

Tags: history, japan, ecology

Very interesting technique. Clearly some more work but prevents deforesting like mad for lumber. It’s amazing to see those… clearly a bit like giant bonsais.

https://dsfantiquejewelry.com/blogs/interesting-facts/the-ancient-japanese-technique-that-produces-lumber-without-cutting-trees

Bye for now!