Tags: web-review, gafam, hardware, video, mathematics, containers, jit, object-oriented, surveillance, codec, compression, vulkan, computation, declarative, complexity, security, bluesky, programming, law, psychology, ai, 3d, blog, vr, business, rust, fonts, shader, data-oriented, web, graphics, tech, python, self-hosting, patents, standard, c++, design, organisation, x11, facebook, hype, wayland, innovation, history, foss, input, optimisation, productivity, refactoring, lobbying, orm, webassembly, architecture, game, social-media, machine-learning, data, politics, xml, cpu, copilot, fundraising, email, performance, democracy, life, portability
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-12.
Tags: tech, web, self-hosting, blog
Also, it’s likely a pessimistic estimate… Indeed, it’s mostly based on a list from Kagi, which likely doesn’t list many sites which would qualify.
https://kevinboone.me/small_web_is_big.html
Tags: tech, web, social-media, self-hosting
So much this… I’m sick of all those little businesses having only an Instagram or Facebook account or whatever. I wish we’d have proper websites for all of those instead.
https://www.otherstrangeness.com/2026/03/14/have-a-fucking-website/
Tags: tech, facebook, vr, hype
This was stupid hype… Why do we have regularly this kind of fever in our industry?
https://www.404media.co/rip-metaverse-an-80-billion-dumpster-fire-nobody-wanted/
Tags: tech, social-media, bluesky, business
The writing is on the wall I think… the real question is not if but when will the enshittification begins? It’s been data harvesting for a while now.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/bluesky-announces-100m-series-b-after-ceo-transition/
Tags: tech, foss, psychology, productivity, life
This is an account of how dark things can become when you align your identity with your contributions. Stay healthy, stay safe!
Tags: tech, foss, business, fundraising
Let’s help them help us. There are a few things to have in place for governments to be able to pay maintainers.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/how-can-governments-pay-open-source-maintainers/
Tags: politics, democracy
This is definitely a disturbing result. It indeed makes democracies more fragile, all the more reason to build more democratic resilience.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/political-science/articles/10.3389/fpos.2026.1779810/full
Tags: tech, gafam, facebook, law, lobbying, surveillance
It looks more and more likely that the current age verification fever has dark origins…
Tags: tech, politics, law, surveillance
The commentaries and analysis of those unjust laws continues. The motives behind the people pushing for them are getting clearer and it isn’t pretty.
Tags: tech, law, surveillance
Good initiative to push these unjust laws to their limits. Hopefully it’ll show how absurd they are.
Tags: tech, history, email
On the little known history of Lotus Notes. Crossed its path as a teenager during an internship at a bank. Can’t say I remember it fondly though.
https://computer.rip/2026-03-14-lotusnotes.html
Tags: tech, innovation, history
Interesting list and way to frame the problem. It’s important to maintain this resource, an update is likely needed.
https://dwheeler.com/innovation/innovation.html
Tags: tech, wayland, x11, history, complexity, input
Let’s not forget where we’re coming from and why window managers tend to be merged with display server. It removes some complexity and some latency.
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/WaylandAndBuiltinWindowManagers
Tags: tech, containers, security
Kind of obvious I think, but this likely bears repeating. Containers are not a magical recipe for security. There are many attack vectors to keep in mind and evaluate.
https://www.lucavall.in/blog/containers-are-not-a-security-boundary
Tags: tech, webassembly, rust
Good explanation of where WebAssembly is going and why the current initiatives are important to its success.
https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/why-webassembly-components/
Tags: tech, cpu, hardware, performance
Not all CPUs are born equal in term of branch prediction. Interesting little benchmark.
https://lemire.me/blog/2026/03/18/how-many-branches-can-your-cpu-predict/
Tags: tech, c++, standard
Nice little quality of life improvements coming to std::span in C++26.
https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/03/18/cpp26-span-improvements
Tags: tech, data-oriented, object-oriented, design, architecture, c++, performance
A very good talk which walks you through how to move from object-oriented design to data-oriented design. Shows quite well how you must shift your thinking and the difficulties you might encounter with data-oriented designs. I appreciate a lot that it’s not just throwing object-oriented design out of the window, indeed you have to pick and choose depending on the problem space. Also it’s interesting to see how C++26 reflection might make some of this easier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzjJfKHygaQ
Tags: tech, 3d, graphics, game, portability, refactoring
Lots of interesting tricks in this code base. Gives also a good idea of the shape and tradeoffs of such ports.
https://www.karanjanthe.me/posts/minecraft-source/
Tags: tech, python, rust, orm
Looks like an interesting ORM which brings advantages of the Django one without all the bagage. It’s still young, let’s see how it evolves.
https://oxyde.fatalyst.dev/latest/
Tags: tech, python, performance, jit
Interesting read on how the CPython JIT effort has been saved.
https://fidget-spinner.github.io/posts/jit-on-track.html
Tags: tech, python, performance, optimisation
Here are the main levers to make Python code faster. Tries also to distinguish the effort level of each approach.
https://cemrehancavdar.com/2026/03/10/optimization-ladder/
Tags: tech, data, declarative, xml, portability
Interesting lesson here. It looks like XML still has its place in our modern tool belts. We should stop dismissing it too quickly.
https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/xml-cheap-dsl/
Tags: tech, graphics, compression
Wondering how JPEG works? Here is a primer.
https://www.sophielwang.com/blog/jpeg
Tags: tech, graphics, fonts, shader, patents
Nice algorithm for rendering fonts. Turns out it’s not patent encumbered anymore, this is good news.
https://terathon.com/blog/decade-slug.html
Tags: tech, video, codec, vulkan, computation
Vulkan compute shaders are very much capable nowadays. Exemplified by its use in FFmpeg.
https://www.khronos.org/blog/video-encoding-and-decoding-with-vulkan-compute-shaders-in-ffmpeg
Tags: tech, 3d, graphics, shader, mathematics
Good exploration on how to make grid shaders. It’s definitely not a simple problem.
https://bgolus.medium.com/the-best-darn-grid-shader-yet-727f9278b9d8
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, copilot
Or why this latest trend in genAI hype is a fool’s errand.
https://haskellforall.com/2026/03/a-sufficiently-detailed-spec-is-code
Tags: tech, programming, optimisation, performance, complexity
These are good rules. Take inspiration from them.
https://www.cs.unc.edu/~stotts/COMP590-059-f24/robsrules.html
Tags: tech, architecture, organisation, politics
Interesting model for bringing architectural and organisational changes. This is indeed at least in part political games… so you need some political capital to spend.
https://architectelevator.com/transformation/political-capital/
Bye for now!