Tags: web-review, community, culture, postgresql, lisp, economics, c++, programming, reliability, framework, gpt, automotive, ai, foss, performance, machine-learning, productivity, vendor-lockin, ecology, rust, web, movie, craftsmanship, shell, security, frontend, copilot, databases, ecosystem, tech, business, memory, infrastructure, copyright, go, energy, complexity, product-management, type-systems, politics, nvidia, supply-chain, project-management, hardware, battery, vision, privacy, tests, quality
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-40.
Tags: tech, nvidia, hardware, economics, ecology
Are we surprised? Unfortunately not, they almost increased their indirect emissions 8 folds in a few years. And it could get worse still.
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, ecology
There’s clearly a major issue in terms of environmental impacts with the AI industrial complex. Yes it’s also about electricity consumption but not only. We have at last a comprehensive study on the matter. Without major changes it’s just unsustainable and something we can’t collectively afford.
https://www.greenit.fr/2026/09/30/ais-unsustainable-impacts-to-grow-x7-by-2030/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, hardware, memory, business, economics
Looks like the mess on hardware prices will continue for a while…
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, foss, community
It makes sense to me, it’s better to not fall prey to the marketing induced FOMO. Instead projects have a chance to do the right thing.
https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, community
Aren’t we loosing sense of community and our humanity indeed?
https://blog.codinghorror.com/if-we-do-not-stop-to-help-each-other-what-do-we-become/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, community, politics
Kind of an unusual read. But I think the message is powerful. We should definitely favor community over tools controlled by the new robber barons.
https://thewhitepages.net/p/the-opposite-of-the-apocalypse-is
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, copilot, productivity, quality
The slippery slop seems clear… If you start generating a bit you’ll be pushed to loose full control in the end. Do you think you can learn this way? Improve? I doubt it.
https://blog.bustikiller.com/2026/09/25/one-month-without-ai.html
Tags: tech, automotive, privacy
The automakers still don’t care about privacy apparently…
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/09/connected-car-data-privacy-is-still-abysmal-study-finds/
Tags: tech, security
Interesting new family of side channel attacks. Surprising it lingered for so long before being noticed.
Tags: tech, go, supply-chain, vendor-lockin
This is clearly something which bugs me about the Go ecosystem. It’s way too coupled to a single Git provider. The approach to dependency management is neat otherwise but more care should be taken about avoiding this GitHub lock in.
https://iain.rocks/blog/dont-couple-your-go-code-to-github
Tags: tech, postgresql, databases, performance
Interesting issues around cascading deletes in Postgres and how the indices are managed.
https://www.dbos.dev/blog/scaling-deletions-in-postgres
Tags: tech, tests, infrastructure, shell
Looks like an interesting tool for black box testing. Seems especially suited for full system tests.
https://dtap.sparrowhub.io/doc/README
Tags: tech, c++
This is indeed a good way to reduce the code generated by templates.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260820-00/?p=112629/
Tags: tech, rust, type-systems
It’s indeed not urgent to have this language feature in Rust. I’m less convinced about the case put forth regarding function overloading not being necessary though. Feels a bit like post-hoc justification in this case.
https://corrode.dev/blog/named-arguments-at-home/
Tags: tech, type-systems, reliability, rust
This is indeed an important pattern to build reliable systems. It’s worth exploring in various languages. Here is the Rust perspective.
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/rusty-thoughts-on-parse-dont-validate/
Tags: tech, lisp, vision
Interesting take and exploration for the reasons which might make Lisp harder to read than other languages.
https://paultm.nl/paren-thesis
Tags: tech, programming, craftsmanship
You’re not paying for a couple more intermediate variables. For sure they make things more readable though.
https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/programming/keep-if-clauses-side-effect-free.html
Tags: tech, web, frontend, framework, complexity
Indeed web frameworks are not needed for everything.
https://modernmotherfuckingwebsite.dreamstation.systems/
Tags: tech, ecosystem, product-management, project-management
Interesting points. If you’re making a platform you can’t really figure out what to do next in the same way than when usual product management is possible. There are signals to look for to feed your roadmap though.
https://sujithjay.com/inventing-work
Tags: tech, energy, ecology
This finding is kind of surprising to me. Time to install solar systems at home I guess?
Tags: tech, energy, battery
Let’s see if it really takes off. It’d be a step in the right direction for sure.
Tags: movie, culture, copyright
Fascinating account of what people must go through for proper film preservation. It’s kind of weird that it is still illegal. You’d wish there’d be more recognition for such passion.
https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/pirating-the-pirates
Bye for now!