Blogs

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-43.


US-EAST-1: All for One, One for All

Tags: tech, cloud, failure

If it fails for everyone then it’s not a bad choice on your part, right?

https://boehs.org/node/us-east-1


Amazon’s Silent Sacking

Tags: tech, amazon, business, infrastructure, hr

It was around two years ago, but maybe a good idea to revisit it with the recent AWS outage?

https://justingarrison.com/blog/2023-12-30-amazons-silent-sacking/


A Word on Omarchy

Tags: tech, linux, system

An harsh look at Omarchy. I really don’t get the hype around this project… turns out it’s even more badly designed and dangerous than I expected. It’s concerning that some beginners are lured to it. Clearly the fault of clueless influencers feeding the hype machine.

https://xn–gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/


Tags: tech, tools, editor, vim, history

Interesting historical look at how and why modal editing appeared.

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/modal-editing-is-a-weird-historical-contingency/


Discussion of the Benefits and Drawbacks of the Git Pre-Commit Hook

Tags: tech, git, tools, codereview, security, version-control

Git pre-commit hooks indeed bring nice benefits. Like everything else they’re not a panacea though.

https://yeldirium.de/2025/10/09/pre-commit-hooks/index.html


Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

Tags: tech, shell, scripting

Bunch of random script ideas. Some I don’t see the point of for me, some are neat and seem useful.

https://evanhahn.com/scripts-i-wrote-that-i-use-all-the-time/


Introducing ImapGoose

Tags: tech, imap, syncing, tools

Looks like a nice tool for syncing mailboxes locally.

https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2025/10/15/introducing-imapgoose/


PGSync

Tags: tech, etl, databases

Looks like an interesting alternative to pulling a full blown ETL for pushing data to ElasticSearch.

https://pgsync.com/


Async Django: a solution in search of a problem?

Tags: tech, django, asynchronous, complexity, community

This is a very valid question. The most likely answer is somewhat cruel though.

https://www.loopwerk.io/articles/2025/async-django-why/


Concept-Based Generic Programming in C++

Tags: tech, c++, generics

A long paper which explains what can be expressed with concepts in C++.

https://www.stroustrup.com/Concept-based%20GP.pdf


Everybody’s so Creative!

Tags: tech, rust, design, complexity, culture

Indeed it feels like the Rust community has a cultural problem around abstractions. In a way it feels similar to the one Java developed years ago. This can bring lots of complexity and obfuscation you don’t want in your project.

https://daymare.net/blogs/everbody-so-creative/


Flight Path

Tags: tech, web, frontend, graphics, 3d

It’s just impressive what we can achieve with instanced rendering. Even the mobile web browsers support it nowadays.

https://github.com/jeantimex/flight-path


Stop Ignoring the Browser: The Biggest Frontend Shift in a Decade

Tags: tech, web, frontend, react, html, css, browser, webcomponents

Looks like the trend is now clear. The reasons for picking a web framework are lessening. It’s more and more viable to use the web platform directly.

https://thenewstack.io/stop-ignoring-the-browser-the-biggest-frontend-shift-in-a-decade/


No, Your Domains and Bounded Contexts Don’t Map 1 on 1

Tags: tech, ddd, architecture, business

Some food for thought about the use of bounded contexts in Domain Driven Design.

https://verraes.net/2025/08/domain-and-bounded-contexts-dont-map-one-on-one/


Knowledge creates technical debt

Tags: tech, technical-debt, knowledge

If you’re not recklessly accumulating technical debt, this is an interesting way to frame the conversation around it.

https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/knowledge-creates-technical-debt/


Measuring Engineering Productivity

Tags: tech, productivity, metrics, engineering, trust

I like the approach. Indeed what matters is to have visibility, don’t weaponize measurement otherwise the trust will falter.

https://justoffbyone.com/posts/measuring-engineering-productivity/


Eunoia: Words that Don’t Translate

Tags: linguistics

Not a large corpus and some are more idioms than just words. Still it’s a nice little experiment with interesting entries.

https://www.eunoia.world/



Bye for now!