Tags: web-review, research, fediverse, rust, engineering, history, ai, memory, c, python, html, gpt, multithreading, atomics, business, economics, craftsmanship, wordpress, tv, quality, book, mathematics, reading, ethics, blog, machine-learning, c++, science, community, tech, api, social-media, software, attention-economy, type-systems, web, politics, production
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-37.
Tags: tech, fediverse, social-media, community
Interesting approach. When friction to subscription is a good way to really build community.
https://tante.cc/2026/09/10/making-social-media-social/
Tags: tech, blog, wordpress, business
Looks like the drama continues. I wonder where this will land.
https://www.404media.co/wordpress-automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-put-on-leave-of-absence/
Tags: tech, book, reading, tv, social-media, attention-economy, politics, history
The argument presented is maybe a bit too mechanical for my taste. That said there’s indeed something to be said about the decline in literacy and its consequences on our societies.
https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/doomscrolling-ourselves-to-death
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, mathematics, ethics, science
Shows some insights into the kerfuffle around the Navier-Stokes recent resolution. The behavior of OpenAI in this affair is ludicrous. In my opinion this is showing research malpractice… Why care about the scientific method when you have a shot at good PR?
https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, mathematics, research, science
Is it badly conducted research for PR purpose? Who would have expected anything different? I wish we’d fund real science instead…
https://tante.cc/2026/09/07/the-function-of-llm-based-math-proofs/
Tags: tech, api, python
Interesting way to deal with deprecation in Python. Indeed sometimes it doesn’t hurt to keep the not so ideal old name… but you want to push user code to know they miss an opportunity in readability by using the old name.
https://hugovk.dev/blog/2026/soft-deprecating-re.match/
Tags: tech, c, multithreading, atomics
Still need to understand atomics and memory barrier? This is a neat primer.
https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/09/a-quick-overview-of-atomics-in-c/
Tags: tech, c++, rust, memory, type-systems
Interesting exploration of how static and dynamic dispatchs work behind the scene in Rust. The chosen tradeoffs are different than in C++ and that’s something to keep in mind.
https://sofiabelen.github.io/projects/visualizing-rusts-vtables-how-dyn-trait-works-in-memory/
Tags: tech, web, html
There’s a lot of important metadata in HTML pages nowadays… and there could be more than proposed here.
https://vale.rocks/posts/html-boilerplate
Tags: tech, software, engineering, quality
Good point. The metaphors we use have obviously some limits. In the case of the “sinking ship” when used for software it doesn’t quite work as there’s no bottom…
https://zachkehs.com/blog/theres_no_limit_to_how_bad_code_can_get/
Tags: production, quality, craftsmanship
Very nice read about quality in general and why it’s really hard to define. It also explores how it can degrade over time in existing products.
https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/on-quality
Tags: history, economics, politics
Or why it’s stupid to judge people on their non virtuous behavior while at the same time fostering the structures which ensure that virtue does not pay. So indeed, some people read the odds properly and act accordingly…
https://henryfudgeofficial.substack.com/p/degeneracy-is-a-symptom
Tags: history, politics
Build a good enough echo chamber and you won’t know you’re toast before it’s too late.
https://thegrimhistorian.substack.com/p/the-last-person-to-know-the-dictator
Tags: history
Such a wonderful species we are… not. Things can get really nasty when someone starts exploiting beliefs and gains some sort of power. And then, the blame game begins. Unfortunately it regularly happens.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=205swuI0JlY
Bye for now!