Tags: web-review, quality, tests, project-management, craftsmanship, leadership, security, technical-debt, caching, html, hardware, recovery, git, organization, google, decision-making, complexity, maintenance, android, safety, data, data-science, tdd, databases, version-control, team, templating, tech, architecture, politics, management, history, web, engineering, foss, performance, python, law
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-40.
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.
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.
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/
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/
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
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/
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
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/
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
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/
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/
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
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/
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!