Tags: web-review, tech, fediverse, law, safety, engineering, unix, gpu, product-management, research, web, risk, social-media, frontend, react, language, performance, gpt, ai, system, politics, security, management, compiler, benchmarking, foss, project-management, criticism, bluesky, copyright, vision, c++, machine-learning, business, networking, hardware, metrics
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2024-49.
Tags: tech, social-media, fediverse, bluesky, politics, business
Article in French
Very good piece explaining why the Ferdiverse is currently our only option for a decentralized social media platform. Maybe Bluesky will become another option… maybe… but so far it’s only empty promises with a real risk of capture.
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copyright, law
Another lawsuit making progress against OpenAI and their shady practice.
Tags: tech, security, ai, machine-learning, gpt
Let’s hope security teams don’t get saturated with low quality security reports like this…
https://sethmlarson.dev/slop-security-reports
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, vision
Nice vision model. Looks like it strikes and interesting balance between performance and memory consumption. Looks doable to run cheaply and on premise.
https://huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm
Tags: tech, foss, hardware, networking
This is an excellent milestone reached for the OpenWrt project. Easily available hardware is a must. It’s rather cheap too.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/nov/29/openwrt-one-wireless-router-now-ships-black-friday/
Tags: tech, unix, system
Good post about the very much overlooked fact that lots of command buffer internally when their output is not a TTY.
https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/11/29/why-pipes-get-stuck-buffering/
Tags: tech, compiler, gpu, research
Interesting research about feasibility of making compilers parallelized on the GPU. I wonder how far this will go.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145⁄3528416.3530249
Tags: tech, c++, safety
Interesting piece, it highlights well the struggle for the C++ community to come up with a cohesive approach to improve safety. It doesn’t look like the solution is going to come from the standardization committee (unfortunately).
https://cor3ntin.github.io/posts/profiles/
Tags: tech, c++
Very nice improvements finally coming to structured bindings indeed. Should make them even more useful.
https://biowpn.github.io/bioweapon/2024/12/03/structured-bindings-cpp26.html
Tags: tech, language, benchmarking
Comparing languages based on some benchmark is probably a fool’s errand indeed. To many factors can change between language and benchmark implementations.
https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2024/01/22/comparing-language-benchmarks/
Tags: tech, web, frontend, react, criticism, product-management, performance
Excellent piece which shows why React (or Angular) is almost always a bad choice and that you’d be better off banking on the underlying web platform. It leads to better user experience full stop. The article also goes in great length debunking the claims which keep React dominant.
https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/
Tags: tech, engineering, management
Nice example of organization to foster more autonomy and ownership in engineering teams. Clearly needs to be adapted to the project context but gives quite a few ideas. It strikes a nice balance at keeping both an individual and a team view of the responsibilities.
https://candost.blog/strong-ownership-culture-in-a-team/
Tags: tech, project-management, risk
Excellent article introducing how to analyse risks.
https://jacobian.org/2024/dec/4/risk-introduction/
Tags: tech, engineering, business, metrics
Good mulling for thought. It’s always a bit challenging to nicely explain the tie between engineering metrics and how they impact the business. This is a nice starting point.
https://icchasethi.medium.com/tying-engineering-metrics-to-business-metrics-f4df7651e026
Bye for now!