Tags: web-review, decentralized, gpu, mathematics, history, surveillance, physics, ecosystem, research, cloud, security, architecture, memory, cloudflare, ai, tech, backend, quality, politics, reliability, cpu, maintenance, resilience, type-systems, 3d, learning, regex, standard, leadership, go, npu, ethics, protocols, communication, trust, machine-learning, performance, vpn, gpt, c++, rust, github, hardware, blog, europe, engineering, system, graphics, floats, linux, shader, self-hosting, python, nlp
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-20.
Tags: tech, surveillance, vpn, europe, politics
Urgh… That was only a matter of time before they notice I guess. That’ll go straight in the authoritarian playbook if they make a real move on it.
https://cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs-closing-in-age-verification-push/
Tags: tech, linux, security
We’ve seen a stream of those security issues lately. It says something about the security practice in the industry right now. Things need to be improved.
https://www.askbaize.com/blog/linux-compromises-broken-embargoes-and-the-shrinking-patch-window
Tags: tech, cloud, cloudflare
Honestly the whole situation was bizarre… And yes it feels like Cloudflare actions were not exactly transparent here.
https://www.flyingpenguin.com/can-someone-please-explain-whether-cloudflare-blackmailed-canonical/
Tags: tech, github, trust
The GitHub exodus continues. Looks like Forgejo is really benefiting from it, I wonder how far this will go.
https://jorijn.com/en/blog/leaving-github-for-forgejo/
Tags: tech, protocols, resilience, self-hosting, politics, decentralized
A good reminder of why this is the protocols which matter. People got too accustomed to centralised platforms.
https://notnotp.com/notes/use-protocols-not-services/
Tags: tech, hardware, system, history
This was definitely an interesting operating system and the hardware was fun too. Of course it was lacking quite a bit in applications availability. This was likely too radical for its time and not mature enough when it needed to.
https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/bebox-beautifully-overbuilt-computer/
Tags: tech, blog, communication, learning
We collectively should reach out more to blog authors indeed. Not for kudos but to feed each other through conversations. That’s how we collectively learn and improve.
https://forkingmad.blog/hey-you-start-communicating/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, research, quality
As if research wasn’t already having a quality problem in submitted papers… now thanks to people jumping on LLMs to churn out papers faster, this quality is cratering.
https://calnewport.com/easy-is-overrated/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, nlp, ethics, performance, architecture
Which means simpler models: and this is fine for most use! It’s also easier to have more ethical options with the smaller and more specialised models. Let’s not forget they exist even though the big industrial complex would like people to forget.
https://unix.foo/posts/local-ai-needs-to-be-norm/
Tags: tech, python, type-systems
Another type checker for Python gets stabilised. So many options and fragmentation in this space. This is odd.
https://pyrefly.org/blog/v1.0/
Tags: tech, backend, go
Kind of a rant but it makes sense for the most part. Back end systems could be much simpler than they tend to be. I think this particular piece is willingly ignoring some of the weaknesses in Go error handling though.
https://blainsmith.com/articles/just-fucking-use-go/
Tags: tech, rust, ecosystem, maintenance
As usual with this author it feels a bit too much like advertising toward the end. Still this is an important post, it shows quite well why you can’t limit yourself at only the language used when picking a stack. You definitely need to look at the standard library and the wider ecosystem as well. Rust is no different there and has its own issues.
https://kerkour.com/the-limits-of-rust
Tags: tech, c++, standard, reliability, memory
It’s about time such a thing gets standardised in C++!
https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/05/13/cpp26-library-hardening
Tags: tech, regex
Still a work in progress, but it’ll likely turn out into a nice resource on how to implement regex engines.
https://kean.blog/post/lets-build-regex
Tags: tech, floats, cpu, hardware, mathematics
Nice exploration of floating point arithmetic all the way down to the silicon.
https://essenceia.github.io/projects/floating_dragon/
Tags: tech, graphics, shader, 3d, physics
Everything you wanted to know about atmosphere rendering but didn’t dare ask. Very good piece, makes me want to write a live wallpaper for Plasma. :-)
https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-rendering-the-sky-sunsets-and-planets/
Tags: tech, gpu, 3d, shader, mathematics
Huh! Indeed I’d have fallen in this trap too. Totally unexpected behavior, and of course not all GPUs interpolate the same, so it can stay hidden until too late.
https://foon.uk/blackshift-sand-bug/
Tags: tech, cpu, npu, hardware
Wondering about NPUs architecture and how they work? This is a good in depth reference article I think.
https://destevez.net/2026/05/getting-peak-tops-on-a-ryzen-ai-7-350-npu/
Tags: tech, engineering
Looks like an interesting reference of patterns in software engineering.
Tags: tech, engineering, leadership
This is a short one but a good one I think. Helping others to do rather than doing directly is the needed shift to get into technical leadership. It’s not an easy leap though, been helping some people getting there and it’s quite the effort.
https://estherderby.com/tech-leadership-be-a-multiplier/
Bye for now!