Tags: web-review, quality, scrum, history, culture, safety, tech-lead, podman, linux, social-media, infrastructure, gpt, simd, intel, law, system, vpn, type-systems, c++, product-management, storage, regex, failure, python, systemd, ai, ux, multithreading, notifications, leadership, reliability, cloud, gaming, google, rust, web, 3d, programming, mathematics, memory, tools, resilience, hardware, shader, decentralized, amd, mozilla, algorithm, security, complexity, tech, learning, psychology, agile, teaching, cognition, containers, object-oriented, privacy, performance, foss, machine-learning, graphics, browser
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-47.
Tags: tech, history, culture
If you’re wondering where emoticons and emojis are coming from, this is a nice little piece about that.
Tags: tech, linux, foss, gaming
Clearly something is brewing right now. We’re seeing more and more people successfully switching.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/823337/switching-linux-gaming-desktop-cachyos
Tags: tech, vpn, privacy, law
This is totally misguided… Let’s hope no one will succeed passing such dangerously stupid bills.
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, learning, teaching
If there’s one area where people should stay clear from LLMs, it’s definitely when they want to learn a topic. That’s one more study showing the knowledge you retain from LLMs briefs is shallower. The friction and the struggle to get to the information is a feature, our brain needs it to remember properly.
https://theconversation.com/learning-with-ai-falls-short-compared-to-old-fashioned-web-search-269760
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, psychology, safety
The findings in this paper are chilling… especially considering what fragile people are doing with those chat bots.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10970v1
Tags: tech, social-media, cognition, psychology
Unsurprisingly the news ain’t good on the front of social media and short form videos. Better stay clear of those.
https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2026-89350-001.html
Tags: tech, cloud, decentralized, web
Friendly reminder following the Cloudflare downtime earlier this week.
https://huijzer.xyz/posts/123/do-not-put-your-site-behind-cloudflare-if-you-dont
Tags: tech, cloud, complexity, safety, rust
Wondering what happened at Cloudflare? Here is their postmortem, this is an interesting read.
Now for Rust developers… this is a good illustration of why you should stay clear from unwrap() in production code.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
Tags: tech, ux, notifications
Kind of ignore the security impact of the needed upgrades, but apart from this I largely agree. Most applications try to push more features in your face nowadays, unneeded notifications and all… this is frankly exhausting the users.
https://tonsky.me/blog/needy-programs/
Tags: tech, browser, ai, machine-learning, gpt, mozilla
Looks like Mozilla is doing everything it can to alienate the current Firefox user base and to push forward its forks.
https://manualdousuario.net/en/mozilla-firefox-window-ai/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, mathematics, google
That’s an interesting approach. Early days on this one, it clearly requires further work but it seems like the proper path for math related problems.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/deepminds-latest-an-ai-for-handling-mathematical-proofs/
Tags: tech, systemd, containers, linux, system, podman
Podman is really a nice option for deploying containers nowadays.
https://blog.hofstede.it/production-grade-container-deployment-with-podman-quadlets/
Tags: tech, regex, rust
Nice alternative syntax to the good old regular expressions. Gives nice structure to it all. There’s a Rust crate to try it out.
https://www.sminez.dev/match-it-again-sam/
Tags: tech, python, performance
Some of this might sound obvious I guess. Still there are interesting lesser known nuggets proposed here.
https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2025/11/10-smart-performance-hacks-for-faster-python-code/
Tags: tech, python, algorithm, graphics
This is a nice little algorithm and it shows how to approach it in Python while keeping it efficient in term of operations.
https://mathspp.com/blog/floodfill-algorithm-in-python
Tags: tech, amd, intel, hardware, simd, performance
Clearly AMD is now well above Intel in performance around AVX-512. This is somewhat unexpected.
https://lemire.me/blog/2025/11/16/amd-vs-intel-a-unicode-benchmark/
Tags: tech, memory, storage, performance, system
No, don’t go assuming you can use disks instead of ram. This is not what it is about. It shows ways to get more out of your disks though. It’s not something you always need, but sometimes it can be a worth endeavor.
https://www.bitflux.ai/blog/memory-is-slow-part2/
Tags: tech, c++, security
Good list of hardening options indeed. That’s a lot to deal with of course, let’s hope this spreads and some defaults are changed to make it easier.
Tags: tech, c++, type-systems, safety
The type inference in C++ can indeed lead to this kind of traps. Need to be careful as usual.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251002-00/?p=111647
Tags: tech, programming, safety, failure
Depending on the ecosystem it’s more or less easy indeed. Let’s remember that error handling is one of the hard problems to solve.
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/AlwaysUncodedErrorHandling
clippy.tomlTags: tech, rust, tools, quality
Didn’t know about that clippy feature. This is neat, allows to precisely target some of your project rules.
https://www.schneems.com/2025/11/19/find-accidental-code-usage-with-a-custom-clippytoml/
Tags: tech, 3d, graphics, shader
Struggling to understand tangent space and normal maps? This post does a good job to explain where this comes from.
https://www.shlom.dev/articles/geometry-behind-normal-maps/
Tags: tech, object-oriented
I don’t get why object oriented programming gets so much flack these days… It brings interesting tools and less interesting ones. Just pick and choose wisely like for any other paradigm.
https://zylinski.se/posts/know-why-you-dont-like-oop/
Tags: tech, multithreading, safety
If you’re dealing with multithreading you should not turn to mutexes by default indeed. Consider higher level primitives and patterns first.
https://chrispenner.ca/posts/mutexes
Tags: tech, infrastructure, reliability, failure, resilience
Interesting point of view. Indeed, you probably want things to not be available 100% of the time. This forces you to see how resilient things really are.
https://jyn.dev/brownouts-reveal-system-boundaries/
Tags: tech, agile, scrum, tech-lead, leadership
Interesting move on the Scrum definitions to move from roles to accountabilities. The article does a good job explaining it but then falls back into talking about roles somehow. Regarding the tech leads indeed they can work in Scrum teams. Scrum don’t talk about them simply because Scrum don’t talk about technical skills.
https://www.patkua.com/blog/tech-leads-in-scrum/
Tags: tech, agile, product-management
I wonder what the whole series will give. Anyway I very much agree with this first post. Too often projects have a single product manager and that’s a problem.
Bye for now!