Tags: web-review, postgresql, engineering, queuing, research, codereview, tools, tourism, gpt, rust, colors, business, cloud, standard, databases, performance, kernel, computer-vision, git, c++, graphics, machine-learning, technical-debt, complexity, quality, science, tech, storage, architecture, security, satire, system, version-control, secrets, linux, unix, memory, webdav, freedesktop, elf, cpu, coroutine, ai, distributed, hardware, asynchronous
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-44.
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, business, research, science
I’m happy to see I’m actually very much aligned with one of the “Attention Is All You Need” co-authors. The current industry trend of “just scale the transformer architecture” is indeed stifling innovation and actual research. That said I find ironic that he talks about freedom to explore… well this is what public labs used to be about, but we decided to drastically reduce their funding and replace that with competition between startups. It’s no surprise we have very myopic views on problems.
Tags: tech, architecture, complexity, databases, queuing, distributed, postgresql
Indeed, in most case you don’t need the extra complexity. Also interesting is showing that even if the application has to scale rapidly you still got quite some time to plan the transition to something else. It makes Postgres a sane default choice.
https://topicpartition.io/blog/postgres-pubsub-queue-benchmarks
Tags: tech, webdav, storage
Indeed, WebDAV is too easily overlooked nowadays although it’s a respectable protocol with general availability. It’s likely available somewhere in what you already use.
https://blog.feld.me/posts/2025/09/webdav-isnt-dead-yet/
Tags: tech, version-control, git, tools
A good reminder that you don’t always need a full blown forge.
https://maurycyz.com/misc/easy_git/
Tags: tech, standard, unix, linux, freedesktop
Nice little website advocating for more use of the XDG base directory specification. This is still needed to push for it indeed.
https://xdgbasedirectoryspecification.com/
Tags: tech, tools, security, secrets
Looks like an interesting tool to go with mise.
Tags: tech, linux, kernel, hardware, system
Nice explanation of the very early steps leading to the kernel loading.
https://www.0xkato.xyz/linux-boot/
Tags: tech, kernel, elf, linux, system
A good introduction at the early steps when a process is started. Covers what happens in the kernel, the ELF interpreter and your language runtime before the main function is called.
https://amit.prasad.me/blog/before-main
Tags: tech, asynchronous, coroutine, performance, hardware, cpu, c++
Maybe we have a path forward for performance stackful coroutine? More pieces need to fall in place but this looks promising.
https://photonlibos.github.io/blog/stackful-coroutine-made-fast
Tags: tech, cpu, hardware, performance
Interesting to see how it behaves in practice when passing parameters by value. Turns out there are surprising patterns in the data.
https://owen.cafe/posts/struct-sizes/
Tags: tech, c++, rust
Indeed, the C++ syntax for closure captures is way superior to the Rust one. Interesting musing on a potential path forward for Rust.
https://andwass.github.io/rust/2025/10/23/closure-captures.html
Tags: tech, rust, memory
Interesting notes about borrow checking in Rust. Looks like it does a good job exploring the whole space of issues one can encounter with potential solutions.
https://qouteall.fun/qouteall-blog/2025/How%20to%20Avoid%20Fighting%20Rust%20Borrow%20Checker
Tags: tech, graphics, colors
Interested in how dithering works? All the algorithms you will ever need are probably on this list.
https://tannerhelland.com/2012/12/28/dithering-eleven-algorithms-source-code.html
Tags: tech, computer-vision
A good way to see the basics of computer vision. This gives all the building blocks needed.
https://zserge.com/posts/grayskull/
Tags: tech, cloud, architecture, complexity
A bit of an advertisement toward the end. That said, the evaluated constraints are completely valid. You don’t want to fit your whole code base into the “cloud function” model, only a few workloads will make sense there.
https://viduli.io/blog/serverless-is-a-handicap
Tags: tech, codereview, quality
An interesting set of principles for code reviews.
https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-code-reviews/
Tags: tech, engineering, technical-debt
Definitely this. It’s a good reminder of the boy scout rule. It’s fine to clean up as you go and when you find the opportunity.
https://candost.blog/journal/engineers-have-more-power/
Tags: tourism, satire
An excellent satire about tourism. Are you sure you want to “live like a local”? Think twice.
https://andrewsamtoy.substack.com/p/ten-ways-to-live-like-a-local-anywhere?ref=DenseDiscovery-362
Bye for now!