Tags: web-review, innovation, fediverse, codereview, supply-chain, exceptions, desktop, commons, kanban, trust, 3d, secrets, leadership, copyright, machine-learning, lean, shader, programming, productivity, economics, tech, quality, blog, culture, language, craftsmanship, gafam, ethics, shell, problem-solving, http, linux, containers, tests, debugging, messaging, physics, graphics, web, law, politics, europe, privacy, engineering, surveillance, work, rust, standard, community, business, failure, gpt, history, learning, social-media, api, ai, security, management, agile, foss, copilot, email, python, markdown
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-03.
Tags: tech, foss, politics, europe
Go and get your voice heard! This is important matter, especially if you’re interested in Free Software.
https://lwn.net/Articles/1053107/
Tags: tech, gafam, business, politics, europe
They’ll do anything to further their grip on tech. The European Union is sleep walking on this one.
Tags: tech, politics, law, surveillance, privacy
Clearly the regulators don’t really understand the level of intrusiveness they’re unleashing with mandating age gates. This is one more layer of surveillance for large parts of the population.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/so-youve-hit-age-gate-what-now
Tags: tech, innovation, foss, business, community
This is a very rich article. There’s indeed more and more a rift between Open Source projects used by hyperscalers and the ones used by smaller businesses and individuals. You likely want to aim for the latter.
https://blog.glyph.im/2026/01/the-next-thing-will-not-be-big.html
Tags: tech, linux, foss, desktop
Looks like the trend continues. Let’s hope the Linux desktop user base will keep growing this year.
https://m.slashdot.org/story/451196
Tags: tech, markdown, history, blog, commons
Wondering where Markdown is coming from and how it became such a success? The piece helps answer those questions.
https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/
Tags: tech, foss, community, email
Interesting points. Forums are clearly not good replacements for mailing lists. They might be a good complementary to mailing lists but both have very different affordances.
https://danielpocock.com/en/mailing-lists-vs-discourse-forums-open-source-community-or-commodity/
Tags: tech, messaging, foss, security, privacy, foss
If you needed a reminder about why you can’t trust WhatsApp, this is a good explanation.
https://toki.la/posts/whatsapp
Tags: tech, security, api, secrets
Friendly reminder that securing APIs and secrets is a must. Not doing so can have really bad consequences.
https://eaton-works.com/2026/01/14/bluspark-bluvoyix-hack/
Tags: tech, web, standard, fediverse, social-media
This is a welcome development at the W3C. Let’s hope this working group will bring good things and stewardship for the related standards.
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/01/15/new-social-web-working-group-at-w3c/
Tags: tech, http, failure, standard
Maybe we can expect improvements in how HTTP rate limiting is handled?
https://dotat.at/@/2026-01-13-http-ratelimit.html
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, ethics
I agree with this so much. It’s another one of those I feel I could have written. I have a hard time thinking I could use the current crop of “inference as a service” while they carry so many ethical issues.
https://yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-dont-use-ai/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, copilot, quality, ethics
There is a real question about the training data used for the coding assistant models. It’s been a problem from the start raising ethical concerns, now it shows up with a different symptom.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, foss, law, ethics, copyright
I’m not sure the legal case is completely lost even though chances are slim. The arguments here are worth mulling over though. There’s really an ethical factor to consider.
https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/on-floss-and-training-llms/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, copilot, business, economics, work, quality
Is this really to improve your work? Or make you dependent? In the end it might be the users who loose.
https://calnewport.com/be-wary-of-digital-deskilling/
Tags: tech, python, debugging, containers
OK, this is definitely a very cool hack. It can definitely help to debug locally.
https://savannah.dev/posts/the-coolest-feature-in-314/
Tags: tech, python, tests, exceptions
Neat little Python trick for testing exceptions.
https://borutzki.github.io/2026/01/15/how-to-parametrize-exception-testing-in-pytest.html
Tags: tech, security, secrets, shell
What’s the right way to manipulate secrets in your shell to avoid leakage? The answer definitely varies, here is the paranoid version.
https://linus.schreibt.jetzt/posts/shell-secrets.html
Tags: tech, rust, supply-chain, security
There are growing concerns regarding the Rust supply chain. It’s still time to address them but it’s became important to tackle this area.
https://mr-leshiy-blog.web.app/blog/crates_io_analysis/
Tags: tech, graphics, 3d, shader, physics
Long and good walkthrough on how to render nice clouds in real time.
https://www.jacktollenaar.top/articles/clouds.html
Tags: tech, programming, language, learning, craftsmanship
There’s a lot to this. Learning different languages to get out of your habits definitely brings compound benefits.
https://ficd.sh/blog/permission-to-begin-learning/
Tags: tech, codereview
This is an interesting way to frame where the effort should be spent in code reviews.
https://bastrich.tech/perfect-code-review/
Tags: tech, engineering, management, productivity, kanban
This is good advice. To improve your organisation, focus only on the biggest constraint. Otherwise you’ll quickly be spread thin.
https://www.theengineeringmanager.com/growth/one-bottleneck-at-a-time/
Tags: management, agile, lean, culture, trust, leadership, problem-solving
This has been documented for a long while. Of course, it’s been followed by an unhealthy fascination for the “Toyota way”. This kind of cargo cult of course lead you nowhere to doing things properly. And yet, now that the dust settled, there are good lessons to learn from Toyota management back then.
https://www.leanblog.org/2026/01/toyota-culture-jeffrey-liker-20-years-later/
Bye for now!