Blogs

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-26.

Look, just fucking use Mastodon already

Tags: tech, social-media, fediverse, bluesky, decentralized

Aren’t the signs clear enough yet? Don’t get misled by Bluesky.

https://giants-club.net/articles/just-use-mastodon/

W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open Data

Tags: tech, social-media, europe, politics

I wish people will stay clear of this newer social media… It already smells really bad in its practice.

https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/

Apertus LLM Family Expansion via Distillation and Quantization

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, foss

Some news from the Apertus project, they released smaller models. Interesting work.

https://apertvs.ai/articles/2026-06-apertus-mini/

Yale researchers propose ‘copyleft’ rules for generative AI

Tags: tech, foss, licensing, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot

This is an interesting proposal, let’s hope it gets picked up and appear in more licenses.

https://news.yale.edu/2026/06/15/yale-researchers-propose-copyleft-rules-generative-ai

Anthropic accuses Chinese rival Alibaba of illicitly extracting AI capabilities

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copyright, politics

Remind me how your built your models in the first place? Yeah right…

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyklykn5dwo

The Shared Feeling of Being Harvested by the Future

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, surveillance, attention-economy, politics, economics

Very sobering opinion piece. For all the talks about a China / USA race, it feels more like two flavors of the same dystopia. The race is just here to justify acting against their own population interest. The result is then the increase in illiberal fixations and nihilistic world views. This can’t end well.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/opinion/us-china-ai-future.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qlA.4T9r.BLss9eBMrQot

Echoes of the AI Winter

Tags: tech, ai, history

When you ignore history, you’re bound to repeat the same mistakes. There’s clearly a trend of overpromising and then failing to deliver.

https://netzhansa.com/echoes-of-the-ai-winter/

Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you

Tags: tech, input, performance, design, history, apple

A long but very interesting piece starting all the way from early typing on machines to more modern input systems. It’s very focused on Apple machines towards the end, but there are good design lessons to draw from the long perspective.

https://aresluna.org/show-your-hands-honor/

It’s Only When You Look Back

Tags: tech, history

Interesting look back at how our industry evolved. Quite a few events over the years.

https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/06/17/25-its-only-when-you-look-back/

Emacs 31 Is Around the Corner: The Changes I’m Already Daily Driving

Tags: tech, editor, emacs

Not CE features coming out of the box in the next Emacs release.

https://www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/emacs-31-around-the-corner

RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method

Tags: tech, http, standard

Looks like we’re getting a new HTTP method. This should help remove ambiguous POST calls when really what you want is to query. This is long overdue, let’s hope this new QUERY method sees quick adoption in servers, frameworks and services.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008/

What can wonky APIs tell us about the web?

Tags: tech, web, api, maintenance

Designing APIs for the Web platform is hard and error-prone. This is why it carries baggage, here is a good example.

https://alexwlchan.net/2026/wonky-web-apis/

Configuration is a liability, just like code

Tags: tech, system, config, complexity, maintenance

Indeed, we try to limit the amount of code we need to maintain. But configuration can bring its own complexity and maintenance burden as well.

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/ConfigurationIsALiability

Improvements to std::format in C++26

Tags: tech, c++

Those improvements are welcome. I wish we’d see more std::format uses.

https://mariusbancila.ro/blog/2026/06/19/improvements-to-stdformat-in-c26/

Rewriting the world in Rust

Tags: tech, rust, architecture

Friendly reminder that the answer is “no”. You don’t want to just rewrite everything, it’s not just a syntactical translation, it’s a long project and at best you tackle critical components.

https://bitfieldconsulting.com/posts/rewrite-in-rust

Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28

Tags: tech, java, type-systems, memory, performance

This is just the beginning in a way, but it’ll be a game changer for Java. The value classes will allow for better memory density.

https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valhalla-explained-how-a

Stop Naming Your Variables “Flag”: The Art of Boolean Prefixes

Tags: tech, programming, maintenance

Good advice on naming booleans. It’s worth repeating.

https://thatamazingprogrammer.com/posts/stop-naming-your-variables-flag-the-art-of-boolean-prefixes/

How to Write an Effective Software Design Document

Tags: tech, design, architecture, documentation, engineering

This is a good reference on how to write design documents. It’s not as easy as it sounds sometimes, and this guide contains good tips.

https://refactoringenglish.com/excerpts/write-an-effective-design-doc/

How to stand against high temperatures

Tags: life, climate

Obviously good advice and things we need to internalize now. Structural change is needed of course, but when the heat is here, better act properly.

https://www.whateverthewindbrings.com/how-to-stand-against-high-temperatures/

Bye for now!