Tags: web-review, craftsmanship, kernel, learning, law, tech, social-media, microsoft, leadership, version-control, memory, rust, power, programming, cognition, copyright, tools, gpu, quality, research, organization, culture, history, maintenance, command-line, unix, codereview, unicode, gpt, project-management, business, ai, terminal, standard, management, web, go, engineering, codec, shader, ocr, type-systems, compiler, marketing, product-management, performance, tdd, frontend, safety, computer-vision, linux, machine-learning, criticism, css, archive, c, colors, optimization, psychology
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-11.
Tags: tech, social-media, criticism
Simple steps to escape the algorithmic social media circus.
https://usher.dev/posts/2025-03-08-kill-your-feeds/
Tags: tech, culture, archive, history, law, copyright
Once again the music labels can’t understand the cultural value of building archives. Let’s hope they loose the lawsuit.
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, marketing, business
Here we go for a brand new marketing stunt from OpenAI. You can also tell the pressure is rising since all of this is still operating at a massive loss.
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, microsoft, business
Are we surprised? Not really… This kind of struggle was an obvious outcome from the heavy dependencies between both companies.
https://techstartups.com/2025/03/07/microsoft-is-plotting-a-future-without-openai/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, cognition, research
I like this kind of research as it also says something about our own cognition. The results comparing two models and improving them are fascinating.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01307
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt
More smaller footprint models are becoming available. This is becoming interesting (even though the open source claim is overrated here).
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, ocr, computer-vision
So much data trapped in PDFs indeed… Unfortunately VLM are still not reliable enough to be unleashed without tight validation of the output.
Tags: tech, linux, kernel, programming
Nice exploration of the important areas in the kernel.
https://www.lucavall.in/blog/a-quick-journey-into-the-linux-kernel
Tags: tech, unix, command-line, terminal, standard
A nice glimpse into the maze of the escape codes on the terminal.
https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/03/07/escape-code-standards/
Tags: tech, rust, type-systems, memory
OK more questions than answers I guess… That said, it shows interesting differences in design choices with C++ to support the traits system.
https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2025/03/trait-object-layout.html
const fns executed?Tags: tech, rust, compiler, optimization
A quick primer about compile time evaluations in Rust.
https://felixwrt.dev/posts/const-fn/
Tags: tech, rust, c, codec, performance, safety
Interesting reasons to let go of Rust, some spaces indeed can have a safety vs performance tradeoff which would justify using good old C.
https://palaiologos.rocks/posts/rust-codecs/
Tags: tech, programming, tools, unicode
Ever wondered how to make a code formatter? This post does a good job showing the main problems you might encounter. The impact of Unicode is especially funny. Very interesting stuff.
https://mcyoung.xyz/2025/03/11/formatters/
Tags: tech, programming, go
An evolving list of how to write idiomatic Go.
https://dmitri.shuralyov.com/idiomatic-go
Tags: tech, web, frontend, css
You can really do a lot with CSS transitions nowadays.
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/lots-of-little-html-pages/
Tags: tech, gpu, shader, web
Nice set of tricks for post-processing effects all centering around pixelated patterns. Really neat.
https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/post-processing-as-a-creative-medium/
Tags: tech, programming, maintenance
The whole field is unfortunately a bit fuzzy. That said, this article gives interesting ideas about what to pay attention to when writing code to ease the readability.
https://seeinglogic.com/posts/visual-readability-patterns/
Tags: tech, engineering, craftsmanship, quality, tdd, programming
Nice post. Explains well why the answer is not a number to target. You want to impact the distribution.
https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/how-long-should-functions-be
Tags: tech, version-control, codereview
Might be going a bit far if you use everything listed here. That said, it gives lots of good ideas so you might want to decide on what you should adopt on your project.
https://refactoringenglish.com/chapters/commit-messages/
Tags: tech, web, css, colors
Nice new tricks to specify colours in CSS.
https://ishadeed.com/article/css-relative-colors/
Tags: tech, engineering, maintenance, leadership
I like this. Sometimes a simple word can make all the difference in the way we behave. Code stewardship is indeed a better word.
https://ntietz.com/blog/stewardship-over-ownership/
Tags: tech, leadership, management, learning
It’s indeed not easy to go from individual contributions, to team level leadership, to organisation level leadership. Many things need to be learned or relearned at each step.
https://sylormiller.com/posts/2025/staff-plus-cliff/
Tags: tech, quality, project-management, product-management
Interesting thinking around a portfolio of activities. You can prioritise differently within it to manage quality vs speed of delivery over time.
https://agileotter.blogspot.com/2025/03/there-is-no-automatic-reset-in.html?m=1
Tags: organization, management, power, psychology
Interesting tips to reduce the power dynamics in organisations.
https://psychsafety.com/reducing-power-gradients/
Bye for now!