Tags: web-review, economics, history, web, copilot, security, project-management, dependencies, c++, system, literacy, simplicity, defense, health, organisation, ai, team, community, metrics, tech, satire, performance, surveillance, agile, hype, supply-chain, decision-making, filesystem, messaging, email, protocols, standard, machine-learning, interviews, dsl, failure, containers, radio, graphics, editor, learning, hiring, enclosure, resilience, podman, game, git, knowledge, business, decentralized, shell, self-hosting, ux, github, sustainability, europe, internet, frontend, rust, routing, politics, lua, text, infrastructure, palantir, gpt, culture, scripting, simd, memory, productivity, career, attention-economy, social-media, hacking, version-control, foss, config, tools, virtualization, engineering, codec, music
Back from vacations, the reading offline was good… I managed to read some articles too, so let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-19.
Tags: tech, hacking, culture
It’s indeed a nice endeavour. I don’t have the appetite for it right now, but I wish more people would do this.
Tags: tech, attention-economy, literacy, health
This is good and sane advice to survive the attention economy and take care of your mental health. It’s not too hard to put in place if you’re not already doing it.
https://thetangent.space/2026/brain-rot/
Tags: tech, radio, music, culture
Yep, I like radio as well. Don’t judge me.
https://donthave2sting.bearblog.dev/radio-is-cool-actually/
Tags: tech, web, foss, knowledge, enclosure, ai, machine-learning, gpt, business, politics
This piece is maybe a bit too much on the panic side… Which part of the Web are we talking about? The commercial stuff? Overall, the logic makes sense though. We see many examples of power plays in guise of “innovation” which lead to killing openly sharing (and so killing real innovation). It’s urgent to fight back and ensure things stay open.
https://www.anildash.com/2026/03/27/endgame-open-web/
Tags: tech, internet, culture, history
The Internet culture definitely changed at the turn of the 21st century. Before this it was a more civilized and hopeful place. I’d like to see the netizen etiquette make a strong come back.
Tags: tech, internet, web, social-media, messaging, culture
This could be a piece full of nostalgia. There is a bit of nostalgia of course, but it’s also a path to use what we got in a more valuable and humane way.
https://joshblais.com/blog/using-the-internet-like-its-1999/
Tags: tech, internet, web, culture, resilience, protocols, decentralized
This is a good point, unlike what some claims the Internet isn’t dying. The commercial land on top is thinning out and is getting filled with crap indeed. Still, what made the Internet and the Web are still here for people to use.
https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet
Tags: tech, web, standard
Indeed, there’s no reason to not use .well-known for newer standard files.
https://www.vzqk50.com/blog/scraps/a-well-known-complaint/
Tags: tech, surveillance, politics, surveillance, defense, palantir
Better late than never I guess? Let’s just hope this becomes very costly for that evil company.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/30/palantir-workers-are-finally-noticing-the-skulls-on-their-caps/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, business, economics, sustainability
This part of the industry is struggling more and more (or more likely silently taking more risks to hide the struggle). It has no path to sustainability and it starts to show.
https://www.404media.co/the-ai-compute-crunch-is-here-and-its-affecting-the-entire-economy/
Tags: tech, foss, community, ai, machine-learning, copilot
It totally makes sense. If you’re a FOSS project you have to invest in getting more long term contributors, which requires mentoring. The contributions themselves are not something to maximise. I wish more communities would follow that path.
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/
Tags: tech, web, frontend, ai, hype, ux, simplicity
So many requests based on vanity and hype… I like the question “when you go to other websites do you use it?”, we should use it more. Maybe at some point we’ll realise that simplicity matters.
https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/all-my-clients-wanted-a-carousel-now-it-s-an-ai-chatbot.md
Tags: tech, foss, politics
Weird decisions, this is really backwards…
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/
Tags: tech, git, github, foss, self-hosting
This is indeed time to move away from GitHub if you’re still there. There are many viable alternatives.
https://dbushell.com/2026/04/29/github-is-sinking/
Tags: tech, git, github, tools, version-control, foss, self-hosting
Good first half of the post, there’s indeed more paths out of GitHub than jumping from a centralised system to another one (even though Codeberg and Forgejo are much saner from a governance standpoint). We’ll see what the future brings.
Tags: tech, git, github, foss, self-hosting, europe, politics
Looks like some governments noticed that they can move away from GitHub and are testing the waters. Good idea!
https://www.nldigitalgovernment.nl/news/soft-launch-for-government-open-source-code-platform/
Tags: tech, foss, community
Indeed, a reminder that the two concepts are not necessarily aligned. It kind of misses the point about corporate Open Source with no open contributions which can be easily captured as well. But indeed for the individual side project you might not need the whole burden of issues and contributions, you get to choose.
https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/04/open-source-does-not-imply-open-community/
Tags: tech, email, routing, security
Want a primer on email routing? This is pretty much it.
https://samkhawase.com/blog/email-is-crazy/
Tags: tech, text, config, editor, shell, scripting
It’s an interesting trick for personal tooling. Keeps things really simple to setup with limited code to maintain.
https://ratfactor.com/cards/text-editor-as-ui
Tags: tech, lua, dsl
This is a good illustration of how flexible and expressive Lua can be. Gives ideas to make DSLs.
Tags: tech, podman, containers, security
Worthwhile exploration on the impact of CopyFail in the context of Podman. The baseline security posture seems better and you can even improve things using older techniques. Definitely worth switching.
https://garrido.io/notes/podman-rootless-containers-copy-fail/
Tags: tech, virtualization, infrastructure, containers
Don’t think this piece really needed to talk about AI but oh well… I guess it’s the obsession of the moment. That said, it’s interesting to see how far the microVM ecosystem matured so far. The pieces are falling in place and that opens the door to interesting architectures.
https://emirb.github.io/blog/microvm-2026/
Tags: tech, c++, supply-chain, dependencies, security, satire
C++ too can have its own supply chain disasters with enough effort!
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/a-breakthrough-in-cc-dependency-management
Tags: tech, rust, failure, security, system, filesystem, memory
Straight from the uutils rewrite. This is interesting both for the class of bugs which made it (very system integration oriented, unsurprisingly) and the ones which didn’t appear at all (anything to do with memory).
https://corrode.dev/blog/bugs-rust-wont-catch/
Tags: tech, simd, performance
A good illustration that you can beat classical algorithms by taking into account how modern CPUs are designed.
https://lemire.me/blog/2026/04/27/you-can-beat-the-binary-search/
Tags: tech, text, codec, memory
When you look at the binary representation of those characters, things become clear. This opens the door to interesting bitwise operations.
https://tylerhillery.com/blog/why-dont-lowercase-chars-come-after-upper/
Tags: tech, game, graphics, performance
There is clearly a sweet spot around 60 fps. Beyond this… You quickly end up in cargo cult territory.
https://hooby.blog/posts/how-many-frames-per-second-do-you-need/
Tags: tech, history, career
It all changed so much! That’s quite a journey for our field. Of course it’s not over yet. At some point we’ll be real engineers I guess. 😉
https://forkingmad.blog/forty-years-in-tech/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, copilot, team, organisation, engineering, learning, satire
This feels a bit too realistic for my taste… and yet… Well this piece of satire is well crafted I’d say.
https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp
Tags: tech, team, organisation, productivity
A bit of a stretched metaphor in here, but indeed being individually faster doesn’t automatically make the team faster. Sometimes quite the contrary in fact.
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/collective-speed-isnt-the-sum-of%20individual-speed/
Tags: tech, project-management, agile, metrics
Indeed I wish we’d see less fixation on burndown and velocity. There are superior alternatives and what matters if the full flow of work.
Tags: tech, hiring, interviews
Another post which shows that the right technical job interviews are the ones creating a real conversation. It’s the only way to have a chance to figure out what the candidate is made of.
https://dbarabashh.com/thoughts-and-experience/hire-for-the-conversation-not-the-code
Tags: politics, decision-making
Especially true for local politics indeed.
https://blog.mattglassman.net/notes-on-influencing-politics/
Bye for now!