Blogs

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-04.

FOSS for digital sovereignty in the EU

Tags: tech, europe, politics, foss

Need inspiration for your answer to the European Commission call for evidence on open source? This is a good one.

https://www.more-magic.net/posts/open-source-in-the-eu.html

Writing First, Tooling Second

Tags: tech, web, self-hosting, blog, writing

Get out and write indeed. You can fiddle with the tools later.

https://susam.net/writing-first-tooling-second.html

Attention Media ≠ Social Media

Tags: tech, social-media, attention-economy, fediverse

There was indeed another path for social media… Let’s hope the Fediverse stay on its current course.

https://susam.net/attention-media-is-not-social-media.html

Why people believe misinformation even when they’re told the facts

Tags: tech, social-media, fake-news, attention-economy

Or why the focus on fact checking is doomed to fail. You can’t ignore our biases, the social context, and above all the toxic architecture of the big social medias.

https://theconversation.com/why-people-believe-misinformation-even-when-theyre-told-the-facts-271236

Deep reading can boost your critical thinking and help you resist misinformation – here’s how to build the skill

Tags: tech, reading, social-media

Not all reading is born equal. The intent matters quite a lot. Build the skill, it’ll last a life time.

https://theconversation.com/deep-reading-can-boost-your-critical-thinking-and-help-you-resist-misinformation-heres-how-to-build-the-skill-268082

Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots

Tags: tech, university, teaching, ai, machine-learning, gpt, ethics, foss

Interesting ideas on how to approach teaching at the university. It gives a few clue on how to deal with chatbots during exams, can be improved but definitely a good start.

https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html

Why We’ve Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969

Tags: tech, programming, business, leadership, complexity, history

Good historical perspective about the attempts to get rid of developers. This never unfold as envisioned. This is mostly about the intellectual work to build artifacts handling the world complexity, and this doesn’t go away.

https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2025/12/07/the-recurring-dream-of-replacing-developers.html

Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains

Tags: tech, packaging, supply-chain, security

New packaging ecosystems bring their new attack vectors. This is definitely a teething problem which will need to be addressed soon.

https://blog.popey.com/2026/01/malware-purveyors-taking-over-published-snap-email-domains/

An adversarial coding test

Tags: tech, security, ide

Are you sure you want to trust that random project you got provided with? Really?

https://runjak.codes/posts/2026-01-21-adversarial-coding-test/

Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, speech

Sounds like a very interesting model (pun intended). It’s really nice to pack that much performance in a smaller neural network.

https://kyutai.org/blog/2026-01-13-pocket-tts

Personal infrastructure setup 2026

Tags: tech, self-hosting, infrastructure

Nice ideas for setting up your own infrastructure at home.

https://linderud.dev/blog/personal-infrastructure-setup-2026/

Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations

Tags: tech, databases, postgresql, optimization, performance

When everything obvious fails… there are still optimisation tricks available for your databases.

https://hakibenita.com/postgresql-unconventional-optimizations

Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing

Tags: tech, data-science, databases, pandas, duckdb

I definitely would like to have some time to fiddle with DuckDB more. It looks like a really neat alternative to something like pandas.

https://www.robinlinacre.com/recommend_duckdb/

Understanding C++ Ownership System

Tags: tech, c++, memory, type-systems

Nice introduction of the C++ ownership system. Nothing new under the sun obviously but since I still encounter developers struggling with this, such introductory material is nice to have handy for sharing.

https://blog.aiono.dev/posts/understanding-c++-ownership-system.html

Rust’s Culture of Semantic Precision

Tags: tech, rust, culture

This is indeed an important cultural trait in the Rust community. This can bring challenge when integrating Rust code into a context with more ambiguity.

https://www.alilleybrinker.com/mini/rusts-culture-of-semantic-precision/

LikeC4

Tags: tech, architecture, c4, tools

Still young and pretty much a one man show. This could turn into a nice tool to use C4 more productively.

https://likec4.dev/#features

Pushing the smallest possible change to production

Tags: tech, team, organisation

This is good advice. Going for something extremely small first is a good way to on board in a new project.

https://ankursethi.com/blog/smallest-possible-change/

A year in the life of a Staff Engineer

Tags: tech, tech-lead, leadership, management, product-management, engineering

This is a good overview of what the Staff Engineer can be. There’s of course a lot of variation depending on time, priorities and the culture of the organisation.

https://medium.com/@_davidanderson/a-year-in-the-life-of-a-staff-engineer-84ae9f6963c1

Work friends are the secret to great culture

Tags: tech, work, team, culture, leadership

Feels a bit odd to go to such length to put it in numbers. And yet, it’s clear that friendships in the workplace are a must. They should be fostered rather than stifled.

https://www.makeworkbetter.info/p/work-friends-are-the-secret-to-great

The Most Powerful Pirate In History

Tags: history

Fascinating story. Some people shouldn’t be forgotten.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2lkVlB96y4

Bye for now!