Tags: web-review, valve, gpt, foss, django, complexity, gpu, ai, databases, dependencies, shader, assembly, low-code, management, tools, mozilla, amd, developer-experience, culture, search, design, rss, fediverse, python, machine-learning, social-media, webassembly, security, php, performance, linux, profiling, nlp, automotive, docker, system, craftsmanship, tesla, web, orm, command-line, tech, architecture, law, engineering, c++, safety
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2024-01. First one of 2024, Happy New Year to all!
Tags: tech, mozilla, foss, web
Alright, it’s 2024… Looking for a New Year Resolution? This is definitely the one you should contemplate! Maybe also prepare your switch to Plasma 6, but different story. 😉
https://roytanck.com/2023/12/23/in-2024-please-switch-to-firefox/
Tags: tech, web, culture, social-media
Very inspiring article. I really wish we’ll indeed see more and more weird and creative websites. People apparently feels uneasy in their current social media jails, the time is ripe to leap in the unknown again.
Tags: tech, foss, law
The current compromise might not be as bad as anticipated. Some things could be improved still. The community needs to be involved in the process.
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-what-does-it-mean-for-open-source/
Tags: tech, fediverse, rss, ai, nlp
Indeed there are a few trends at play right now which lead to RSS being in use again. I can only hope it’ll keep growing.
https://timkellogg.me/blog/2024/01/03/birb
Tags: tech, search, web
This looks like now is the time for smaller search engines to shine. Clearly the dominant ones are not doing a really good job anymore.
Tags: tech, tesla, automotive, safety
The results of this investigation are actually super scary… Even if you don’t own one, those are in our streets. In any case it is a clear statement that you can’t and shall not run an automotive company like a startup…
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-musk-steering-suspension/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, security
When bug bounty programs meet LLM hallucinations… developer time is wasted.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/02/the-i-in-llm-stands-for-intelligence/
Tags: tech, valve, foss, linux, system
Funny reverse engineering of the latest SteamOS to use it in a different context. Give some information on their system design.
https://iliana.fyi/blog/build-your-own-steamos-updates/
Tags: tech, low-code
Proper word of caution. Those tools ain’t necessarily bad… but know what the limits will be.
https://nick.scialli.me/blog/why-im-skeptical-of-low-code/
Tags: tech, complexity, craftsmanship, dependencies, php, web
Nice ode to simplifying web projects, to great effects. You can go a long way serving millions of requests if you choose your tools properly.
https://alexcabal.com/posts/standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-tech
Tags: tech, system, design, architecture, databases
Very interesting exploration of the design choices behind the creation of a key value storage engine.
https://silhding.github.io/2021/08/20/A-Closer-Look-to-a-Key-Value-Storage-Engine/
Tags: tech, databases, python, orm, django
Overview of the differences in behavior between the two most popular ORMs in the Python ecosystem. This shows interesting different design options for such things.
https://st4lk.github.io/en/blog/2023/12/09/sqlalchemy-vs-django-orm/
Tags: tech, tools, command-line
Looks like another nice grep alternative. This one keeps its command line interface compatible with grep which is nice, not the case for other alternatives and that turns out to be my main gripe with them.
Tags: tech, docker, webassembly
This makes for quite a few emulation layers stacked on each other. Still this is an interesting experiment.
https://github.com/ktock/container2wasm
Tags: tech, profiling
Nice reference for the tools available to profile software.
https://profilerpedia.markhansen.co.nz/
Tags: tech, amd, gpu, shader, performance
A very precise and thorough article about GPU occupancy. What it is, how it relates to perceived performances, it’s potentisl relationship with cache thrashing and the tools you can use to measure it on AMD GPUs.
https://gpuopen.com/learn/occupancy-explained/
Tags: tech, c++, assembly, performance
Not necessarily a practical advice in most of our daily code. Still this exhibits interesting low level details about argument passing. Might come in handy in a few cases, to be kept in mind.
https://gist.github.com/FeepingCreature/5dff669aad380a123b15659e195fb96c
Tags: tech, web, design
Good food for thought regarding shared presence on the web. A few good ideas in the design space. Obviously very web centric, I wonder what we could do on the desktop with shared documents for instance.
https://maggieappleton.com/ambient-copresence
Tags: tech, engineering, management, developer-experience
Nice writeup about the benefits of homogeneity in an engineering organization. It also shows how it is a balancing act though, since you need experiments to happen in a controlled way for evolution to still happen.
https://building.nubank.com.br/the-value-of-canonicity/
Bye for now!