Tags: web-review, python, attention-economy, management, linux, tech, remote-working, cloudflare, floats, vim, surveillance, history, web, criticism, programming, browser, unix, communication, politics, foss, google, redhat, 3d
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2023-32.
Tags: tech, vim
Nice words about Bram Moolenaar maintainer of vim who passed away recently.
https://j11g.com/2023/08/07/the-legacy-of-bram-moolenaar/
Tags: tech, unix, linux, redhat, history
Don’t be fooled of the title. Yes, it concludes about an opinion piece about the latest changes in policy around RHEL. Still, it starts with a very nice retelling of the history around UNIX and computing since the 70s. This is an invaluable resource.
https://www.lpi.org/blog/2023/07/30/ibm-red-hat-and-free-software-an-old-maddogs-view/
Tags: tech, google, browser, surveillance, attention-economy
Excellent piece against the Web Environment Integrity proposal from Google.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/your-computer-should-say-what-you-tell-it-say-1
Tags: tech, cloudflare, google, surveillance, attention-economy
This is based on fingerprinting and sometimes fail. If Web Environment Integrity gets through it’ll be just worse.
https://jrhawley.ca/2023/08/07/blocked-by-cloudflare
Tags: tech, foss, politics, criticism
Definitely this. There’s still so much to achieve through FOSS, lots of missed opportunities. The mentioned factors clearly played a huge part in the current situation.
https://idiomdrottning.org/foss-dystopia
Tags: tech, browser, web
Indeed, too many websites or apps break or hijack basic features of the browser. To me it also shows the tension between trying to have a document browser and an application provider shoved in the same GUI.
https://heather-buchel.com/blog/2023/07/just-normal-web-things/
Tags: tech, programming, python
Definitely a clever combination of two Python constructs.
https://www.bitecode.dev/p/python-cocktail-mix-a-context-manager
Tags: tech, 3d, floats
Good explanations of why you might want to revert the Z axis on your projection matrices. Of course it boils down to how float precision works.
https://tomhultonharrop.com/mathematics/graphics/2023/08/06/reverse-z.html
Tags: tech, remote-working, management, communication
Kind of overlooking the cost of producing videos in my opinion. That being said, if you keep videos out of the picture this little article is spot on. Remote work is about more asynchronous and longer form communication first.
https://ben.balter.com/2023/08/04/remote-work-communicate-more-with-less/
I’m taking another short break, so no web review next week!
Bye for now!