Tags: web-review, productivity, ai, organization, complexity, safety, frontend, http, tech, uuid, tools, encodings, communication, performance, surveillance, cloud, 3d, gpt, business, multithreading, politics, cost, programming, command-line, unicode, python, developer-experience, architecture, fediverse, dependencies, microsoft, css, funny, optimization, machine-learning, google, management, coaching, databases, web, copyright, debugging, bias, gpu, rust, security, codereview, law, computation
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2023-40.
Tags: tech, fediverse
This is an interesting move from the BBC. We can only theorize on the reasons but that’s a positive example of a successful fediverse presence so far.
https://darnell.day/bbc-gives-up-on-threads-by-instagram-sticks-with-mastodon
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, law, copyright
Looks like it was a very interesting talk. Situation still needs to be monitored in any case, it’s uncertain how those cases will be ruled.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/945504/ee1f1db87dae56b1/
Tags: tech, politics, bias
A bad solution in search of a problem basically. Let’s look at the alternatives and fund proper solutions to why people are victimized, shall we?
Tags: tech, security
Very refined attack including the social engineering side of things. Catching developers with coding challenges, it’s definitely cunning.
Tags: tech, google, surveillance
Why you can’t trust this kind of proprietary software…
https://fosstodon.org/@Joe_0237/111145684757912952
Tags: tech, microsoft, cloud, security
Totally missed this over the summer… this is a huge breach. It will have a long lasting impact. The scope might be larger than we expect.
Tags: tech, microsoft, cloud, security
Really a bad summer for Microsoft security wise. Trust should be low among Azure customers now. Who was paying attention though?
Tags: tech, security
An attack which doesn’t want to die. Time to retire RSA use with TLS, this is really overdue.
https://people.redhat.com/~hkario/marvin/
Tags: tech, python, programming
A few good things went unnoticed. The performances are still not there.
https://www.bitecode.dev/p/python-312-what-didnt-make-the-headlines
Tags: tech, rust, safety
This is a big deal for the places where Rust could shine.
https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/ferrocene-open-source/
Tags: tech, unicode, encodings
Very nice primer on how Unicode works. Definitely a must read and a good starting point. Definitely highlights properly some of the difficulties we need to deal with now and talks about the normalization forms.
https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode/
Tags: tech, programming, debugging
List of strategies to keep in mind when debugging.
https://matt-rickard.com/lessons-from-debugging
Tags: tech, multithreading, databases
Good way to understand two phase locking better, its tradeoffs, variants and how it’s been improved.
https://concurrencyfreaks.blogspot.com/2023/09/50-years-later-is-two-phase-locking.html?m=1
Tags: tech, architecture, databases
Interesting primer of the intricacies of database migrations. It can get complex fairly quickly.
https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/database-migrations/
Tags: tech, uuid, databases
Interesting property of the newer UUIDv7 spec.
https://buildkite.com/blog/goodbye-integers-hello-uuids
Tags: tech, web, css, frontend, funny
Nice and fun little demo of what can be done with CSS animations.
https://erictreacy.github.io/mimic.css/
Tags: tech, web, css, frontend, funny
Fun way to understand better the CSS layouting using flexboxes.
Tags: tech, 3d, gpu
Interesting connector, I didn’t know about this one.
https://rkblog.dev/posts/pc-hardware/gpd-win-max2/oculink-as-egpu-solution/
Tags: tech, gpu, computation, performance, optimization
Very thorough paper on optimization techniques when dealing with GPUs. Can be a useful reference or starting point to then dig deeper. Should also help to pick the right technique for your particular problem.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145⁄3570638
Tags: tech, 3d
Very clever tricks for a performant little engine.
https://dioragame.com/devlog/?log=3
Tags: tech, command-line, tools, developer-experience
Looks like an interesting tool to manage developer environments.
Tags: tech, http, tools
Looks like an interesting alternative to things like postman or insomnia. To test when I get the chance.
Tags: tech, architecture, dependencies, complexity
Mind how you pick your dependencies and how they fare over time. You might need to reevaluate and let go some of them.
https://blog.ploeh.dk/2023/10/02/dependency-whac-a-mole/
Tags: tech, cloud, business, cost
Interesting approximations to get a feel of how much a cloud project will cost.
https://www.vantage.sh/blog/cloud-costs-every-programmer-should-know
Tags: tech, codereview, communication
We see this kind of comments in some reviews, this would benefit from being more widespread.
https://conventionalcomments.org/
Tags: tech, management, organization, productivity
Interestingly (or maybe unsurprisingly) most of the factors this research found impactful are not technical. So mind the social constructs of your organization.
https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/factors-of-developer-productivity
Tags: tech, coaching, management
Definitely this, I too often see people trying to just power through. Being responsible of something doesn’t mean you do it all alone, on the contrary. If you’re struggling with it look for help, it can take many forms including coaching.
https://jacobian.org/2023/oct/4/seniority-and-self-management/
Bye for now!