Blogs

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-27.

What happened to the fight for the Internet?

Tags: tech, politics, surveillance

Excellent piece, where are the netizens who should be fighting back those bills? Looks like we became very complacent and passivity reigns this time around. Didn’t think it was related to the pervasive centralisation already in place… but indeed that might be a strong contributing factor.

https://dustycloud.org/blog/what-happened-to-the-fight-for-the-internet/

Age verification is just a precursor to attribution of speech

Tags: tech, politics, law, surveillance

Definitely this, we can’t trust this kind of mechanism for what they open the door to.

https://nonogra.ph/age-verification-is-just-a-precursor-to-attribution-of-speech-06-29-2026

my review of uruky

Tags: tech, web, search

Several times I bump into articles praising this one. I’ve been test driving it a bit, the experience is still a bit bare but it’s clearly maturing. Definitely an option to keep an eye on in my opinion.

https://blog.sulimans.space/my-review-of-uruky/

Zuckerberg’s increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers

Tags: tech, social-media, facebook, ethics

There might be a method behind the madness of the thin skinned autocrat heading Meta… Unfortunately it probably works.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/27/zuckerstreisand-2/

Chatbots vs. Ozone

Tags: tech, geospatial, ai, machine-learning, gpt, economics, ecology

More reasons why the whole “data centers in space idea” is stupidly dangerous and likely unreachable.

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/05/chatbots-vs-ozone.html?m=1

Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, trust, security, privacy

You sure you can trust those systems? It’s proprietary software and they’re clearly on a slippery slop. For something so security sensitive this is concerning.

https://thereallo.dev/blog/claude-code-prompt-steganography

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, cognition, security, safety

Interesting paper (go to the full one for all the details) which shows that with the current architecture it’s really hard if not impossible to make safe systems with LLMs. This gives interesting insights in the weird form of proto-cognition those models exhibit.

https://role-confusion.github.io/

Text Editor: Data Structures

Tags: tech, text, editor, design

Neat introduction to the right data structures to use when making a text editor.

https://www.averylaird.com/programming/the%20text%20editor/2017/09/30/the-piece-table.html

Engineering High-Performance Parsers with Data-Oriented Design

Tags: tech, data-oriented, architecture, performance, parsing

Interesting article applying data oriented design to parsing tasks. This is really a good approach for performance.

https://www.arshad.fyi/writings/engineering-high-performance-parsers

Data Access Patterns That Makes Your CPU Really Angry

Tags: tech, cpu, memory, hardware, performance

Interesting experiment on how to totally break the performance of memory accesses. This gives good insights on the whole chain works.

https://blog.weineng.me/posts/slowest_add/

The Physics of Memory

Tags: tech, javascript, memory, data-oriented, performance

Unsurprisingly cache locality is a very important factor. What’s interesting here is that it still applies to a language like Javascript where you’d expect to not have enough control on the memory layout to reap any benefits.

https://www.dmurph.com/posts/2026/06/ecs_vs_oop_benchmark/ecs_vs_oop_benchmark.html

High-performance Rust: Understanding and eliminating memory fragmentation

Tags: tech, rust, memory, embedded, performance

Interesting Rust options to limit the amount of heap allocations if you’re constrained by memory or for performance reasons.

https://kerkour.com/rust-high-performance-memory-fragmentation-allocations

Hobby’s algorithm for aesthetic Bézier splines

Tags: tech, graphics, mathematics

Interested in splines? This is a gentle introduction which points to further resources if you want to implement them.

https://www.jakelow.com/blog/hobby-curves#fn-2

What To Learn To Be A Real Time Graphics Programmer

Tags: tech, 3d, shader, mathematics, graphics

Wondering what to learn to get into graphics programming? This is a nice list.

https://blog.demofox.org/2026/07/01/what-to-learn-to-be-a-graphics-programmer/

Announcing Box3D

Tags: tech, physics, simulation, 3d

Exciting! This looks like a neat 3D physics engine.

https://box2d.org/posts/2026/06/announcing-box3d/

The essence of architectural work

Tags: tech, architecture, complexity

This is an ongoing series, but there are good insights about software architecture work in the first few articles. Shows quite well the important tradeoffs and the usual traps.

https://www.ufried.com/blog/essence_of_architecture_1/

Every bottlenose dolphin invents a unique whistle that becomes its name

Tags: biology, nature, cognition

So using personal names is not an inherently human trait, this is confirmed through research now. Before their were signs and suspicions, but now the trail of evidences is strong.

https://spacedaily.com/d-within-the-first-few-months-of-life-every-bottlenose-dolphin-invents-a-unique-whistle-that-becomes-its-name-for-the-rest-of-its-life-and-other-dolphins-learn-that-whistle-remember-it-and/

Notes from a burning Paris

Tags: climate, ecology

This is what things will look like in the coming years. Only probably worse, and for more and more people.

https://sarahwilson.substack.com/p/notes-from-a-burning-paris

Bye for now!