Tags: web-review, reliability, climate, history, delegation, system, ethics, git, security, leadership, machine-learning, rust, physics, quality, google, python, guix, web, optimisation, performance, commons, http, economics, c, simulation, game, politics, complexity, react, hardware, abi, ai, funny, generator, europe, piracy, sociology, copilot, internet, unix, scifi, c++, facebook, wayland, x11, music, supply-chain, surveillance, sqlite, debugging, webcomponents, framework, culture, zig, memory, browser, graphics, version-control, linux, htmx, gpt, reproducibility, life, shell, foss, ecosystem, management, tech, organisation, satire, databases, services, api, nix
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-29.
Tags: funny, history, scifi
Interesting game. Want to make your own alternate history? Gives pause about what we assume of the past. It stays fun of course.
Tags: climate, europe
Those maps make things very clear regarding climate change in Europe… and concerning to say the least.
https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/this-is-still-not-normal.html?m=1
Tags: tech, internet, music, piracy, culture, history
Excellent article which gives a glimpse of the Internet culture around music in the late 90s to roughly 2010. It was called piracy but clearly it was a labor of love… the movement kind of faded but artists don’t see much money back. It was a fight for nothing, well at least… not to the benefit of the artists.
https://www.pigeonsandplanes.com/read/music-piracy-what-cd-oink-nine-inch-nails-streaming
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, copilot, ethics, politics, foss
An illustration of the political and ethical acumen being low in our profession in general and in some (most?) Open Source projects in particular…
https://tante.cc/2026/07/15/useful-is-not-sufficient/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, hardware, economics
The hardware prices are nuts right now… and there’s no end in sight yet.
https://timemachiner.io/2026/07/16/lets-talk-about-the-hardware-reckoning/
Tags: tech, facebook, google, surveillance, hardware
Well yes… and hopefully the fashion industry won’t be enough to hide it.
https://www.vogue.com/article/do-smart-glasses-have-a-surveillance-problem
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, surveillance, politics, sociology
Not what I signed up for years ago, but it’s the political and social landscape we inherited… Surveillance is being on steroids now, so definitely need to fight it at every turn.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/ai-surveillance-and-social-progress.html
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, security
There’s clearly an issue with the security and privacy practice of those companies…
https://mindgard.ai/blog/cursor-0day-when-full-disclosure-becomes-the-only-protection-left
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, security
Those systems based on LLMs really create crazy security issues as soon as they’re allowed to interact with other systems.
https://www.ayush.digital/blog/the-memory-heist
Tags: tech, web, ai, machine-learning, gpt, commons
The web scraper situation isn’t getting better… How long can the open web still hold?
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1080822/990a8a5e2d379085/
Tags: tech, graphics, simulation, generator
Nifty new approach for infinite terrain generation. This is really impressive work.
https://xandergos.github.io/terrain-diffusion/
Tags: tech, git, version-control
It’s definitely bringing nice moves now. It deserves to be used more indeed.
https://lalitm.com/post/git-history/
Tags: tech, graphics, linux, wayland, x11, performance
More latency exploration on Linux for games. The results are interesting. Unsurprisingly the X11 vs Wayland difference is much less dramatic than what people make of it.
https://marco-nett.de/blog/measuring-input-latency-on-linux-x11-vs-wayland-vrr-dxvk/
Tags: tech, nix, guix, reproducibility, debugging, system
Declarative systems like Nix and Guix bring their own set of complexities and challenges. That said, they also bring very interesting properties in terms of full system reproducibility. It can be a real help for integration work.
https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2026/07/debugging-performance-regressions/
Tags: tech, unix, shell, system
If you ever wondered what is responsible for printing the “core dumped” message, here is your answer.
https://rmpr.xyz/Where-did-my-segfault-go/
Tags: tech, databases, sqlite, optimisation, performance
Interesting trick to detect table scans with SQLite. I can see that useful in development to optimize systems.
https://tenderlovemaking.com/2026/07/15/detecting-full-table-scans-with-sqlite/
Tags: tech, databases, performance, reliability
Or how to properly paginate results when you have a database.
https://binaryigor.com/the-order-of-data.html
Tags: tech, rust, ecosystem, supply-chain
A nicely balanced view at Rust the language but also the ecosystem. It’s not all pretty and real issues are looming.
Tags: tech, rust, supply-chain
Another attempt at easing the pain navigating the Rust crates ecosystem? It has its merits as well.
https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2026/07/15/battery-packs/#fnref:1
Tags: tech, rust, zig
While some rewrite from Zig to Rust… others follow the opposite path. This is an interesting read pointing the strengths and weaknesses of both ecosystem. There’s no one size fits all in our field so it’s important to have this kind of explorations.
https://rtfeldman.com/rust-to-zig
Tags: tech, c++
C++23 gives us std::ranges::view::enumerate for this particular case now. Still, this is a good illustration of the (too) little used range-based for loop with initializer.
https://lzon.ca/posts/tips/cpp-for-range-init/
Tags: tech, c, memory
Indeed, this design choice comes with lots of issues. It might have made more sense in the 70s though.
https://longtran2904.substack.com/p/c-strings-a-50-year-mistake
Tags: tech, python, api, abi
A not of a long introduction with generalities about APIs and ABIs. It really gets interesting when it covers the CPython specifics and the challenge they had keeping compatibility at the ABI level. This gives a good idea of the complexities needed to build wheels for Python packages.
https://labs.quansight.org/blog/python-abi-abi3t
Tags: tech, game, physics, simulation
What’s in the physics simulation of cars? A lot actually!
https://wassimulator.com/blog/programming/programming_vehicles_in_games.html
Tags: tech, graphics
Another fun exploration of dithering techniques. The variety abounds in this domain I think.
https://dead.garden/blog/how-my-images-are-dithered.html
Tags: tech, web, services, browser, security
A neat and simple explanation of what CORS is and which security issues it helps with.
https://sanyamserver.online/posts/cors/
Tags: tech, http
What’s in a request nowadays? Well, lot of information!
https://nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2026/07/14/a-modern-http-request/
Tags: tech, web, htmx, framework, complexity, webcomponents, react
I wish more teams would have this kind of thinking an really carry it to its logical conclusion. In most case you don’t need an SPA framework.
https://kore-nordmann.de/blog/htmx-and-web-components-instead-of-react.html
Tags: tech, leadership, management, organisation, politics
Some of it is probably a bit too cynical (often the case with this author), and yet it has good advice on how software engineers influence the organisation around them.
https://www.seangoedecke.com/playing-politics/
Tags: tech, leadership, delegation, quality
Good check list of things to consider when you’re delegating something. It’s pretty much the expectations from the person who delegate to you.
https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/ownership
Tags: life, satire
It’s not complicated, just don’t be a waste of atoms, m’kay? 😉
https://impossiblesongs.blogspot.com/2026/07/life-hacks-for-idiots.html?m=1
Bye for now!