Blogs

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-40.


Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It

Tags: tech, web, history

Excellent profile of Tim Berners-Lee.

Go and read it! It’ll give a lively impression of the Web early history. It’s amazing how, back then, he managed to fend of the greed of corporate interests in order to make sure his original vision would survive. Of course not everything materialized, most notably the Semantic Web (sadly).

Nowadays, the real question is the fragmentation due to the big closed platforms power grab and the political context. Can we still save the Web? For sure there’s no clear path yet.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/06/tim-berners-lee-invented-the-world-wide-web-now-he-wants-to-save-it?ref=newsletter.weeklyfilet.com


F-Droid says Google’s new sideloading restrictions will kill the project

Tags: tech, android, foss, law, google

With the latest rulings Google feel like the ecosystem might escape its grip… So they plan to tighten it.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/f-droid-calls-for-regulators-to-stop-googles-crackdown-on-sideloading/


Asked to do something illegal at work? Here’s what these software engineers did

Tags: tech, law

Or on the importance of being able to say “no”. If you see something fishy, at least refuse to participate in it.

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/asked-to-do-something-illegal-at-work/


I’ve locked myself out of my digital life

Tags: tech, security, safety, recovery

Your digital life is secure? Good… now is it really safe? Can you recover in case of a catastrophic event?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/06/ive-locked-myself-out-of-my-digital-life/


GitFlow considered harmful

Tags: tech, git, version-control, complexity, organization, team

An old series of posts which highlights quite well why GitFlow can be a problem and that you likely want something simpler. Since I still find GitFlow often recommended as a knee-jerk reaction, this is a good article to have in hand.

https://www.endoflineblog.com/gitflow-considered-harmful


Introducing tdom: HTML templating with t‑strings

Tags: tech, python, templating, html

Early days but it looks like an interesting use of the t-strings introduced in Python 3.14.

https://davepeck.org/2025/09/22/introducing-tdom-html-templating-with-python-t-strings/


Small Data

Tags: tech, architecture, hardware, performance, data, data-science

Maybe it’s time to stop obsessing about scale and distributed architectures? The hardware has been improved quite a bit at the right places, especially storage.

https://topicpartition.io/definitions/small-data


Redis is fast - I’ll cache in Postgres

Tags: tech, databases, caching, architecture, complexity

Yes an external cache is definitely faster. That said does your application need the extra complexity? Is the caching in database really the bottleneck? If not, the question of the external cache is still open.

https://dizzy.zone/2025/09/24/Redis-is-fast-Ill-cache-in-Postgres/


Don’t Put Logic in Tests

Tags: tech, tests, tdd, complexity

Maybe a bit extreme as an example, but highlights quite well why you want to limit logic in tests as much as possible.

https://testing.googleblog.com/2014/07/testing-on-toilet-dont-put-logic-in.html


Too DRY DRY, Hush Hush

Tags: tech, craftsmanship, complexity, maintenance

Indeed, most complaints against “Don’t Repeat Yourself” (DRY) are really arguments against a strawman. Of course you can go wrong, it’s like everything else it’s about balance… reducing the DRY guideline to a caricature to get rid of it won’t help.

https://codingcraftsman.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/too-dry-dry-hush-hush-2/


What is “good taste” in software engineering?

Tags: tech, engineering, craftsmanship, team, quality

I’m not fully aligned with all of this article. That said, it’s an interesting way to frame the topic of how we’re having to make tradeoffs all the time.

https://www.seangoedecke.com/taste/


Priorities

Tags: tech, project-management, technical-debt

There are indeed way to deal with important but lower priority tasks. You want to tackle those to avoid your teams to slow down too dramatically.

https://archaeologist.dev/artifacts/priorities


Useful engineering management artifacts

Tags: tech, engineering, management, leadership, organization

Nice list of templates to use for better handling of engineering management in your organisation. Pick, choose and adapt what makes sense to the context.

https://bjorg.bjornroche.com/management/engineering-management-artifacts/


Stop Avoiding Politics

Tags: tech, organization, team, politics, decision-making

Good opinion piece, I wholeheartedly agree with the author on the topic. Like it or not, politics happen in organizations. Ignoring this fact is an enabler for bad decision making.

https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/10/01/stop-avoiding-politics/



Bye for now!