Tags: web-review, type-systems, programming, shell, automotive, science, ai, business, performance, japan, surveillance, microsoft, tests, markdown, foss, wine, tools, community, git, linux, javascript, organisation, graphics, engineering, copilot, metrics, culture, rss, self-hosting, forgejo, github, system, data, gpt, ethics, version-control, tech, language, security, complexity, marketing, law, research, machine-learning, hype, standard, memory, windows, rust, libreoffice, innovation, productivity, video
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-13.
Tags: tech, law, surveillance
This keeps escalating… It needs to be stopped.
https://reclaimthenet.org/new-york-bill-would-force-age-id-checks-at-the-device-level
Tags: tech, automotive, security
Clearly those are new and the vendors need to put in place proper security practices. Still those are on the road…
https://persephonekarnstein.github.io/post/zero-days/
Tags: tech, linux, windows, wine, performance
Looks like an important Wine 11. Well done to them!
https://www.xda-developers.com/wine-11-rewrites-linux-runs-windows-games-speed-gains/
Tags: tech, data, surveillance, ai, machine-learning, copilot
Unsurprisingly, they need to find new data to feed the monster…
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/github_ai_training_policy_changes/
Tags: tech, git, github, forgejo, self-hosting
A reminder that this is an easy migration. Can also be towards you own instance of Forgejo of course.
https://unterwaditzer.net/2025/codeberg.html
Interesting call, our field like anything undertaken by mankind is worthless without community. Also community can’t sustain if you got an anti human agenda.
https://koronkevi.ch/posts/humanity.html
Tags: tech, hype
Indeed, there’s no rush. No need to be first to jump on every new fashion.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/im-ok-being-left-behind-thanks/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, language, culture
Not peer reviewed as far as I can tell. That said if confirmed by other studies this feels like an important paper. The language flattening might be real and this will have lasting cultural impacts.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, research, business, foss, ethics
I personally think this is where it’ll head after the bubble pops. We should be able to recover enough material to have something viable to run locally. The question will be “where the updated models come from?”, it might be the public sector helping there and hopefully those will be truly FOSS and ethical (like Apertus).
https://tombedor.dev/open-source-models/
Tags: tech, foss, tests, security
You’d wish more projects would put such measures in place.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/03/26/dont-trust-verify/
Tags: tech, microsoft, libreoffice, standard, markdown, complexity
A brief history of word processor formats and how Markdown came to prevail…
https://matduggan.com/markdown-ate-the-world/
Tags: tech, rss, tools
Interesting tool to test your RSS feeds.
Tags: tech, tools, version-control, git, security
Interesting trick in Got, using SSH certificates to prove the origin on commits. This feels a bit rough though, tooling has room for improvement.
https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/ssh-certificates-and-git-signing/
Tags: tech, linux, memory, system
Long and comprehensive look at how zswap and zram work. They each bring their own tradeoffs, it’s important to understand them to choose.
https://chrisdown.name/2026/03/24/zswap-vs-zram-when-to-use-what.html
Tags: tech, shell, tools
Good list of lesser known tricks in shell uses.
https://blog.hofstede.it/shell-tricks-that-actually-make-life-easier-and-save-your-sanity/
Tags: tech, system, windows
Indeed, it looks like Windows gave up on having a nice experience for native app development a while ago…
https://domenic.me/windows-native-dev/
Tags: tech, system, memory
Interesting story on how sometimes you can be betrayed by your memory allocator.
Tags: tech, rust, programming
Good guidelines for Rust code indeed.
https://epage.github.io/dev/rust-style/
Tags: tech, rust, type-systems
Interesting proposal for rust borrow checker. I wonder if it’ll get any traction.
https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2026/03/21/view-types-max-min/
Tags: tech, javascript, complexity, tools
Most JS projects end up incredibly bloated indeed. Luckily there are ways to improve the situation.
https://43081j.com/2026/03/three-pillars-of-javascript-bloat
Tags: tech, graphics, video, marketing
Yes the naming of resolutions is a mess… Couple that with marketing and it becomes misleading quickly.
https://blog.brixit.nl/rant-about-resolutions/
Tags: tech, metrics, engineering, productivity, complexity
A bit more nuance in the “how to use the lines of code metric?” debate. Indeed it’s not the same if you look at complexity or productivity.
https://entropicthoughts.com/lines-of-code
Tags: tech, innovation, organisation
Definitely makes sense, you can be more innovative in your practices and processes than with the tech your depend on. The cost of changing is definitely not the same.
https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/choose-boring-technology-and-innovative-practices/
Tags: japan, culture
Be warned! This is a long list.
https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01362/
Bye for now!