Tags: web-review, tools, usb, linkedin, law, standard, nature, version-control, history, command-line, programming, tests, research, hardware, vendor-lockin, shell, posix, apple, gafam, ecology, sandbox, unix, ai, technical-debt, services, organisation, queuing, lua, reliability, git, game, security, distributed, hacking, knowledge, orm, performance, uuid, multithreading, algorithm, information, web, gpt, politics, facebook, economics, physics, colors, rust, journalism, funny, type-systems, mathematics, repair, surveillance, business, search, trust, webassembly, django, attention-economy, databases, linguistics, ethics, social-media, power, copilot, graphics, data, culture, machine-learning, science, tech, failure, biology, foss, geospatial
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-09.
Tags: tech, usb, repair
Since these ports are becoming more and more pervasive, it’s nice to see a replaceable and repairable option on the market.
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/26/easily-replaceable-usb-c-port-spawned-by-eu-laws/
Tags: politics, ethics, culture
The previous piece about the disagreement with Cory Doctorow was a good one even though I didn’t put it in my review. This one is more important though! It’s a necessary reminder that we can’t put allies on a pedestal and then scream at them making mistakes or having different opinions. We can’t afford this kind of purity culture… Especially right now.
https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/on-alliances/
Tags: tech, foss, hacking, culture, business, surveillance, vendor-lockin, knowledge
Clearly the author is angry and he has every right to be. By closing platforms and fighting against tinkering, the big tech companies try to kill of the power user and hacker cultures. By letting this happen we all loose as a society.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
Tags: tech, information, attention-economy, culture, journalism
Interesting food for thought about the information ecosystem we live in. It’s been distorted by the constant stream of content, so it’s very hard to find the good journalism within the noise.
https://om.co/2026/01/21/velocity-is-the-new-authority-heres-why/
Tags: tech, linkedin, social-media, surveillance
Could it get more intrusive than this? It’s really handing over sensitive data to shady companies…
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, knowledge, security, trust
One more example that it should be used for NLP tasks, not knowledge related tasks. The model makers are consuming so much data indiscriminately that they can’t easily fine comb everything to remove the poisoned information.
Tags: tech, gafam, facebook, attention-economy, ai
If you’re wondering the kind of dumpster fire Facebook is now, that gives an idea. It was crap all along for sure, but clearly they crossed another threshold.
https://pilk.website/3/facebook-is-absolutely-cooked
Tags: tech, culture, business
It feels like staring in the abyss… rather sad I’d say.
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/03/childs-play-sam-kriss-ai-startup-roy-lee/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, security
The OpenClaw instances running around are really a security hazard…
https://herman.bearblog.dev/vulnerability-as-a-service/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, science, research
I was so waiting for someone motivated enough to publish a review of that paper. I indeed threw it away as weak after reading it. Thanks for taking the time to write this up! This is good scientific inquiry… and it shows there were interesting findings in the paper that the authors decided to just ignore.
https://jenniferplusplus.com/reviewing-how-ai-impacts-skill-formation/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, hardware, performance, power
Still a bit mysterious but could be interesting if they really deliver.
https://taalas.com/the-path-to-ubiquitous-ai/
Tags: tech, gafam, facebook, ai, machine-learning, gpt, politics, business, economics, ecology
This planned giant data center by Meta shows how the big players are grabbing land to satisfy their hubris. So much waste all around.
https://sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/
Tags: tech, geospatial, law, politics
There’s clearly a regulation gap for satellites. We’ve been putting way too many of them in orbit the past decade and it’s currently going to accelerate. This jeopardizes the night sky, astronomy and the possibility of space exploration. Clearly we’re making the wrong choices here.
Tags: tech, uuid, physics, mathematics, funny
Really fun thought experiment. What if we need truly unique IDs at universe scale? Several options are explored.
https://jasonfantl.com/posts/Universal-Unique-IDs/
Tags: tech, web, standard, webassembly
There is indeed a path for better support for WebAssembly on the Web platform. Let’s just hope it doesn’t take a decade to get there.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/making-webassembly-a-first-class-language-on-the-web/
Tags: tech, git, version-control, tools
Nice little git trick. We can all thank the CIA I guess?
Tags: tech, unix, posix, shell, tests, tools
Interesting shell based test framework targeting pure POSIX. This makes it fairly portable. It feels a bit raw but there are a few interesting ideas in there.
https://codeberg.org/sstephenson/brat
Tags: tech, command-line, tools, programming, search
Looks like a good tool when you need to search for stuff in codebases.
Tags: tech, security, sandbox, apple
Looks like a neat little tool in the Mac ecosystem. It seems to make sandboxing easy despite a couple of caveats.
https://igorstechnoclub.com/sandbox-exec/
Tags: tech, game, lua
Looks like a neat little lua based game engine for simple 2D.
Tags: tech, colors, graphics
There’s something I find fascinating about dithering somehow. Here are more algorithms and approach to compare side by side.
https://matejlou.blog/2023/12/06/ordered-dithering-for-arbitrary-or-irregular-palettes/
Tags: tech, django, orm, databases
Interesting first article, I wonder what the rest of the series will have in store. In any case this shows how practical it is to use the Django ORM standalone. This opens the door to nice use cases.
https://www.paulox.net/2026/02/20/django-orm-standalone-database-inspectdb-query/
Tags: tech, rust, reliability, failure, type-systems
Short explanation of why you want to make invalid state impossible to represent. This leads to nice properties in your code, the price to pay is introducing more types to encode the invariants of course.
https://www.harudagondi.space/blog/parse-dont-validate-and-type-driven-design-in-rust/
Tags: tech, algorithm, data
An interesting resource, good way to match problems to algorithms and data structures.
Tags: tech, services, distributed, queuing, performance
Interesting approach to provide more fairness to client requests.
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/25/sfq.html
Tags: tech, multithreading, performance
A good reminder that on modern hardware read-write locks are rarely the solution despite the documentation claims.
https://eventual-consistency.vercel.app/posts/write-locks-faster
Tags: tech, technical-debt, organisation, ai, machine-learning, copilot
Interesting point, there are indeed different types of “debt” in the systems we build. It likely help to be more precise about their nature, and indeed assisted coding might help grow a particular kind of debt.
https://medium.com/mapai/on-the-question-of-debt-aca1125d4a62
Tags: science, mathematics, history
Fascinating story about the little known Cantor big mistake. This also shows once more, that even though we like to put people on pedestals and look for a “lone genius” or a “hero”, discoveries are always a process of several minds playing of each other.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-stole-infinity-20260225/
Tags: linguistics, history
This is an excellent piece if you like linguistics and its historical component. It shows quite well how much English changed over the centuries.
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
Tags: science, biology, nature, funny
Yes we do need to talk more about them. They are ugly… but they are awesome! (in a scary way)
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/naked_mole_rats
Bye for now!