Tags: web-review, complexity, vendor-lockin, gpu, performance, tech, research, speech, cpu, bias, foss, business, microsoft, mathematics, ethics, politics, equality, gpt, work, maintenance, ai, copilot, strategy, web, apertus, decision-making, history, c++, cognition, php, security, architecture, english, culture, design, machine-learning, messaging, hardware, diversity, css, life, self-hosting
I’ll take a short break, so no web review next week. Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-43. Enjoy it as it’ll be the last one of October!
Tags: tech, foss, history
Interesting account of Zotero history. Another venerable software which passed a nice milestone.
https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-slow-formation-of-durable-software/
Tags: tech, diversity, equality, work, bias
An important talk. I wish we’d do better as an industry… and as a society. It’s just not acceptable to witness this kind of issues and do nothing about them.
https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-240-1-men-in-tech-yesallmen
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, apertus, gpt, research, foss
Very exciting release. It’s nice to see that with care it’s possible to build a LLM which is also a common. The production of such models is fully documented and auditable. As far as I can tell the result is free of the usual negative externalities that the industrial complex tends to ignore.
Of course I advise reading the full technical report. It’s so refreshing to see where they have good solutions or where they struggle. I can’t suffer the “marketing disguised as research” coming from the big companies anymore.
Now looking forward to their 2.0 release, the roadmap is interesting.
https://www.apertus-ai.org/articles/2026-07-apertus-1-5/
Tags: tech, security, php
It’s clearly one of the two (4?) security topics of the week. Maybe there’s been some overreaction though? Yes, it needed to be patched. Yes, the disclosure could have been handled better. But no… there’s no working exploit in the wild.
https://eliastaylor.com/noexploit/
Tags: tech, self-hosting, life
A good list of the things to keep in mind and prepare in case everything goes wrong and someone else need to take over the services you self host.
https://www.jamesleighton.com/2026/10/how-to-keep-the-familys-digital-life-running/
Tags: tech, microsoft, messaging, vendor-lockin
This is unfortunately a common default choice indeed. I wish it wasn’t though. People using it are locking themselves in a sub par offer for a financially driven convenience… If they’d account for the impacts they’d realise it costs them way more than they think.
https://blog.raed.dev/posts/microsoft-teams-red-flag/
Tags: tech, business, politics
An important piece in my opinion. Obviously with my political leaning it all feels to me like it was just a question of time before we got there. Still it’s valuable to read this kind of insider views.
https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/cancer-capital/?ref=DenseDiscovery-411
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, mathematics, business, ethics, life
This has a satirical undertone but it has a very good point. Those companies are just sucking the life out of very human activities.
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/15/why-are-we-even-doing-all-this/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, cognition, research
Go read the full paper of course, but in case you won’t this is a quick summary which kind of does the job. There are obvious limitations to the study: most notably time as it’s only a few minutes use each time. And yet that raises clear questions on longer term use… There is clear recovery after a few minutes but does it still exist after weeks or months of prolonged use? How fast would it be? Clearly we don’t know yet.
Tags: tech, cpu, gpu, hardware, performance, speech
In a way it’s a friendly reminder that for some workloads, when latency matters, the GPU might be wrong for the job.
https://altunenes.github.io/posts/reuse/
Tags: tech, c++
Another interesting type introduced C++26. This should make it easier to deal with owning polymorphic types at runtime.
https://mariusbancila.ro/blog/2026/10/18/composite-objects-and-cpp26-the-stdpolymorphic-type/
Tags: tech, web, css
Nice stuff might be coming if they make it into Interop 2027. I’m not excited about all of them but there are a few I’d like to see supported earlier rather than later.
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/interop-2027/
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, copilot, design, architecture, complexity, maintenance
Interesting essay even though I don’t like the whole part about singularity. I found this section was a distraction to the more interesting arguments. Indeed, I liked a lot the concept of decoherence and its ties to complexity.
The essay also makes a good job of showing how it’s something we have to deal with and likely the worst kind of technical debt. I also shows how it impacts productivity obviously. It’s all valuable and things I encounter on a regular basis.
And of course, since everything has to talk about LLM these days, it builds an interesting case on how and why using those tools especially with harnesses to pump out more code is actually increasing decoherence. Exactly what we don’t want.
https://maevyn.codes/decoherence
Tags: tech, strategy, decision-making
It doesn’t have to be something mysterious indeed. It’s a skill one can learn.
https://ryangreenhall1.substack.com/p/how-strategy-stopped-intimidating
Tags: english, culture
It’s just impolite to point your flaws. Of course it makes etiquette harder to learn as you don’t notice. This is a small list of things to pay attention to. Liked the writing as well.
https://englishmanmike.substack.com/p/the-british-etiquette-rules-nobody
Bye for now!