Tags: web-review, bias, supply-chain, infrastructure, ai, svg, funny, community, machine-learning, multithreading, e-ink, ssh, fake-news, blog, politics, cloud, databases, gui, constraint-solving, culture, gpt, surveillance, wikipedia, complexity, c++, css, ux, algorithm, search, tools, performance, processes, graphics, security, information, physics, safety, tech, wayland, dependencies, management, system, knowledge, command-line, web
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-37.
Tags: tech, surveillance, politics
Se might have dodged a bullet here… Until next time. Thanks to the coalition of countries which opposed this bill.
https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/115184350819592476
Tags: tech, wikipedia, knowledge, processes, culture, community, bias
Very nice article on the Wikipedia success. Or why being boring and the ultimate process pettiness became the crucial part of the formula. This community really developed a fascinating culture which so far resists to mounting political pressure… But will the editors morale hold?
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales
Tags: tech, fake-news, information
Nice and to the point little guide on how to evaluate source of information.
https://guides.lib.uchicago.edu/c.php?g=1241077&p=9082322
Tags: tech, web, search, blog
This is nice to see the energy still bubbling in the traditional web. It’s still there, next to the big mall pushed by search engines. You just need to know where to look and it’s not that hard.
https://blog.clew.se/posts/secret-web/
Tags: tech, e-ink
Clearly that’s interesting progress around this kind of display. This should make it easier to create devices using them going forward.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/e-paper-display-modos
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, funny
OK, this is an interesting way for the Darwin Award to branch. Some of the 2025 nominees are indeed funny. Now I wonder which ones will win the award!
Tags: tech, dependencies, supply-chain, security
It’s indeed surprising that this compromised npm account didn’t lead to more damage. It’s a good reminder that you better regularly audit what happens in your ecosystem.
https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/we-dodged-a-bullet/
Tags: tech, infrastructure, cloud
Want to scare yourself with what might happen when you completely let go of your infrastructure? Here is an aggregator for that.
https://serverlesshorrors.com/
Tags: tech, command-line, gui, wayland, funny
Very fun an impressive experiment of making a Wayland compositor rendering in the terminal with surprising refinements. Now it feels totally useless too of course.
https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything
Tags: tech, tools, ssh, infrastructure, complexity
And a bunch of tool to use with it… But you can indeed do a lot with just SSH. This post gives a few good ideas.
https://wrongthink.link/posts/all-you-need-is-ssh/
Tags: tech, c++, safety
C++26 really looks like a step in the right direction in term of safety. Undefined behaviours are too often neglected in that conversation.
https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/02/05/cpp26-erroneous-behaviour
Tags: tech, multithreading, performance
A few ideas to dig deeper into for better multi threaded throughput.
https://kprotty.me/2025/09/08/batched-critical-sections.html
Tags: tech, databases
Maybe time to change habits on table naming? I’m still on the fence myself but there are interesting arguments there.
https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/programming/use-singular-nouns-for-database-table-names.html
Tags: tech, algorithm, constraint-solving
Or how a problem is represented matters a lot. Going for a constraint solver might be what you want sometimes.
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/many-hard-leetcode-problems-are-easy-constraint/
Tags: tech, graphics, web, css, svg, physics, ux
I think this effect is a usability nightmare. That said it’s interesting to see which CSS and SVG tricks can be used to simulate it. This opens the door to other effects.
https://kube.io/blog/liquid-glass-css-svg/
Tags: management, system
It is indeed often the system. Now what the article is not talking about is that sometimes people do everything they can so that the system doesn’t change.
https://managementblog.org/2025/08/27/is-it-the-people-or-the-system/
Bye for now!