Tags: web-review, satire, asynchronous, debugging, scam, travel, tech, filesystem, economics, science, politics, delegation, ecology, architecture, funny, copilot, memory, hype, security, tools, history, organisation, bureaucracy, communication, hardware, management, complexity, culture, time, ai, gpt, github, type-systems, git, machine-learning, engineering, version-control, rust, flatpak, business, posix, command-line, social-media, biology, game, unix
I’ll be vacationing a bit, so there will be no web review next week. It means the next one might be a double issue though, we’ll see.
Anyway, let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-17.
Tags: tech, social-media, github, scam
People are manipulating vanity metrics to attract VC money? Who would have expected? This is so unsurprising, I don’t even understand why people look at those…
https://awesomeagents.ai/news/github-fake-stars-investigation/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, security, hype
More in depth look at the launch white paper and the issues covered in the PR. Not much survives scrutiny… there’s nothing special with this model.
https://www.artificialintelligencemadesimple.com/p/anthropics-claude-mythos-launch-is
Tags: tech, hardware, ai, machine-learning, gpt, ecology
One of the dark sides of our industry, and this is is accelerating at a worrying pace. Maybe it’s time to look at and fix the whole hardware life cycle?
https://restofworld.org/2026/global-ewaste-crisis/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, business
Indeed, and it’s going to get even crazier at some point. I guess somewhat soon but who knows…
https://anderegg.ca/2026/04/22/llm-pricing-has-never-made-sense?ref=bubbles.town
Tags: tech, git, version-control, tools
Nice quality of life improvements for the history rewrites. That said, I’m particularly looking forward to the changes in hooks handling, it’s always been a pain to deal with in teams, moving them to config should help.
https://github.blog/open-source/git/highlights-from-git-2-54/
Tags: tech, git, version-control, command-line, tools
A single CLI tool for any Git forge? This sounds appealing.
https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/13/forge.html
Tags: tech, unix, posix, filesystem, security, flatpak
A reminder that path based APIs and security don’t go well together to manage files.
https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a-file/
Tags: tech, game, time
Pausing a game is not as simple as it sounds. There are many approaches to it.
https://kotaku.com/video-game-devs-explain-how-pausing-works-and-sometimes-it-gets-weird-2000686339
Tags: tech, asynchronous, complexity
Interesting piece which gives some perspective on the path which led to async/await. It seems to omit some pieces of the history to me but that’s a minor issue. I like how it points that it indeed led to gradual improvements locally for developers writing their functions, but is overall leading to larger issues in the involved ecosystems.
https://causality.blog/essays/what-async-promised/
Tags: tech, rust, memory
Indeed, the memory layout of your structs can matter. Be it Rust or not, but in the case of Rust the use of Option might give the wrong feel about the resulting layout.
https://dystroy.org/blog/box-to-save-memory/
Tags: tech, rust, memory, type-systems
Finer grained borrowing is still something people need in Rust. Here is a potential solution to get them today.
https://lambdalemon.gay/posts/grist-lens
Tags: tech, debugging, funny, satire
OK, I find it funny. That said, there’s a kernel of truth in this piece: there’s clearly a taxonomy of bugs and you better know on what you just stepped.
https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/field_guide_to_bugs/
Tags: tech, architecture, organisation
Indeed, architecture work is not only technical (what is really?). You definitely need to account for the organisation and the process to actually put the architecture in place. It’s not just about having pretty pictures.
https://frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2026-04-04-whats-in-it-for-me-architecture/
Tags: tech, architecture, organisation
Architecture work is not only technical, you need processes to put the architecture of a project in place. That said, you can make things easier with standards to smooth the path toward the preferred types of architectures in your organisation.
https://frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2026-04-17-good-architecture-shouldnt-need-a-carrot-or-a-stick/
Tags: tech, engineering, organisation, management, bureaucracy
Clearly, any endeavour which has to scale will need some form of bureaucracy to stay afloat. The art is keeping it to a minimal before it starts to be an end in itself.
https://blog.ploeh.dk/2026/04/20/in-defence-of-bureaucracy/
Tags: management, organisation, delegation, communication
Interesting insights, or how listening helps finding risk or making sure delegation will go well. It’s indeed also a good illustration that story telling works often betterthan explaining abstract concepts.
Tags: history, biology, science
And this is why… we now have chickens. More seriously it’s a true testament to genetic and behavioral diversity. This is clearly what allowed some species to escape the disaster.
Tags: ecology, economics, politics
The insurances are starting to crumble under the risks. Looks like it’s time to do something about it.
https://aeon.co/essays/how-do-we-deal-with-the-catastrophe-of-uninsurability
Tags: travel, culture, social-media
Yes, I’m definitely bummed by this behavior as well. Best travel is when you take your time and enjoy the place, definitely not running around to take pictures for vanity reasons.
https://herman.bearblog.dev/the-commodification-of-travel/
Tags: travel, culture, social-media
Another one on the commodification of travel, it exemplifies what real travel is.
https://thatalexguy.dev/re-the-commodification-of-travel?ref=bubbles.town
Bye for now! See you in two weeks.