Tags: web-review, ide, filesystem, django, politics, io, security, rust, containers, sustainability, neural-networks, writing, learning, art, c++, machine-learning, complexity, databases, blog, community, team, craftsmanship, estimates, logic, low-tech, design, google, tools, python, risk, copyright, git, tech, interoperability, satire, standard, culture, browser, systemd, protocols, storage, version-control, ai, productivity, patents, history, foss, reliability, rest, copilot, gpt, codec, teaching, debugging, podman, prolog, video, web, programming
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-13.
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, politics, culture, art, copyright
Sure, a filter which turns pictures into something with the Ghibli style looks cute. But make no mistake, it has utter political motives. They need a distraction from their problems and it’s yet another way to breach a boundary. Unfortunately I expect people will comply and use the feature with enthusiasm…
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/openais-studio-ghibli-meme-factory
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, security
When a big player has to prepare a labyrinth of AI generated content to trap bots used to feed generative AI learning pipelines… something feels wrong.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-labyrinth/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, satire
Don’t underestimate how much of a skill making a stupid crawler can be…
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_115_rude_crawler/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, security
And yet another reverse proxy to use as a scraper deterrent… It looks like several are popping every week lately.
https://git.sr.ht/~runxiyu/powxy
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, copilot, ide, tools, programming
Again that confirms that all the hype and grand announcements are not deserved. It also gives a good idea of the skills which are required to use those tools, clearly the setup process is involved if you want to don’t want to be overwhelmed and drowning in bad code.
https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai.html#memo-13
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, neural-networks, logic, prolog
This is definitely an interesting declarative language. Looking forward to more such neurosymbolic approaches.
Tags: tech, web, browser, foss
A good look at both incumbents in the web browser engine space. Still quite some way to go but the results are interesting already.
https://thelibre.news/servo-vs-ladybird/
Tags: tech, python, django, rest, sustainability, community
There’s a sustainability issue for the REST support with Django. Hopefully this will resolve.
https://danlamanna.com/posts/rest-in-peace-djangos-framework-problem/
Tags: tech, version-control, git, tools
Looks like a neat little tool to explore git repositories.
https://github.com/sinclairtarget/git-who
Tags: tech, tools, containers, podman, systemd
Looks like a nice way to orchestrate rootless podman containers.
https://mo8it.com/blog/quadlet/
Tags: tech, video, codec, patents, foss
Or why software patents can get in the way… You can work around them somehow, but that quickly leads to shipping binaries you can’t properly check.
https://bbhtt.space/posts/closing-the-chapter-on-openh264/
Tags: tech, io, storage, filesystem, databases
A reminder that writing on disks is a longer process than you could suspect. Many things can go wrong on that chain.
https://notes.eatonphil.com/2025-03-27-things-that-go-wrong-with-disk-io.html
Tags: tech, rust, c++, interoperability
Looks like there’s movement at the Rust Foundation level to have better C++ and Rust interoperability. We’ll see what comes to fruition, this could be interesting. It’s needed for sure.
https://github.com/rustfoundation/interop-initiative
Tags: tech, debugging, tools
Interesting fork of rr to have time travel debugging with software counters. Hopefully will allow using rr in environments where it’s limited by lack of access to hardware performance counters.
https://github.com/sidkshatriya/rr.soft
Tags: tech, foss, protocols, design, standard
Nice post about the practical impacts of Postel’s law. It’s especially problematic in the case of Open Source software. Companies producing proprietary software even use that to their advantage.
https://alexgaynor.net/2025/mar/25/postels-law-and-the-three-ring-circus/
Tags: tech, debugging, web, browser, google
Interesting story… when you end up turning to v8 having a bug in the field, you’re really in trouble.
https://www.clientserver.dev/p/war-story-the-hardest-bug-i-ever
Tags: tech, craftsmanship, programming, estimates, risk, complexity
Or why analogies with physical work don’t work…
https://timharek.no/blog/why-developers-question-everything/
Tags: tech, security
It’s better if you prepare your security policies properly…
https://kellyshortridge.com/blog/posts/sun-tzu-wouldnt-like-the-cybersecurity-industry/
Tags: tech, team, productivity
Trying to measure individual productivity is definitely a trap. You’d better not try, otherwise you’ll have wrong behaviors or you’ll punish the wrong persons.
https://dannorth.net/the-worst-programmer/
Tags: tech, blog, writing
A bit cynical at times, but shows tricks to improve the writing and style of blog posts. If I ever find the time to write something sizeable again I guess I’ll try some of them.
https://refactoringenglish.com/chapters/write-blog-posts-developers-read/
Tags: teaching, learning
I like this attitude obviously… Go out and teach! Share what you learn!
https://hardmodefirst.xyz/teach-to-learn-why-sharing-what-you-know-makes-you-smarter
Tags: tech, low-tech, history, reliability
Interesting rambling and exploration. What would a computer built to last a century look like?
https://thomashunter.name/posts/2025-03-23-post-apocalyptic-computing
Bye for now!