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Web Review, Week 2024-29
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2024-29.
The graying open source community needs fresh blood • The RegisterTags: tech, foss, community
This is indeed a problem. Somehow it became much harder to attract younger developers.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/15/opinion_open_source_attract_devs/
Tags: tech, browser, mozilla, privacy
You’d expect Mozilla to know better. This is disappointing, they’re no living up to their responsibility.
https://blog.privacyguides.org/2024/07/14/mozilla-disappoints-us-yet-again-2/
Tags: tech, twitter, social-media, law
The European Commission starts showing it’s muscles. Twitter is an obvious one to pursue since it became the X cesspool.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_24_3761
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, economics, ecology, criticism
I’m rarely on the side of a Goldman Sachs… Still this paper seems to be spot on. The equation between the costs (financial and ecological) and the value we get out of generative AI isn’t balanced at all. Also, since it is stuck on trying to improve mostly on model scale and amount of data it is doomed to plateau in its current form.
https://www.404media.co/goldman-sachs-ai-is-overhyped-wildly-expensive-and-unreliable/
Tags: tech, ai, social-media, facebook
Or examples of the collapse of a shared reality. This has nothing to do with “social” media anymore. Very nice investigation in any case.
https://www.404media.co/email/24eb6cea-6fa6-4b98-a2d2-8c4ba33d6c04/
Tags: tech, security, leak
Wow! This is a really bad data breach. Apparently related to the recent data theft on the Snowflake end.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/12/att-phone-records-stolen-data-breach/
Tags: tech, git, codereview, tools
Interesting approach to building a new code review system. I somehow doubt it’ll get traction unfortunately but it has nice ideas baked in.
Tags: tech, c++, gpu, computation
Looks like an interesting library to build portable GPU compute workloads. Cleverly tries to leverage WebGPU.
https://www.answer.ai/posts/2024-07-11–gpu-cpp.html
Tags: tech, c++, performance, optimization, pattern
A paper listing patterns to reduce latency as much as possible. There are lesser known tricks in there.
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/13/c-design-patterns-for-low-latency-applications/
Tags: tech, c++
Nice little reference of what can be done with std::filesystem.
https://www.cppstories.com/2024/common-filesystem-cpp20/
Tags: tech, c++, safety, memory
Definitely this. C++ isn’t going away anytime soon. Rewrites won’t be worth it in important cases, so improving the safety of the language matters.
https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/cpp-must-become-safer/
Tags: tech, django, databases
Django doesn’t always generate the migration you’d expect. Read them before going to production. Also it’s fine to adjust them.
https://micro.webology.dev/2024/07/15/django-migration-operations.html
Tags: tech, backend, sqlite, databases
Where are the limitations of using SQLite in production for web applications? Here is a good list.
https://blog.pecar.me/sqlite-prod
Tags: tech, databases, sqlite
Some improvements coming in SQLite transactions. Here are some early tests.
https://reorchestrate.com/posts/sqlite-transactions/
Tags: tech, tests
Three good advices on writing automated tests. This is necessary but not sufficient though.
https://jaywhy13.hashnode.dev/tests-you-love-to-read-write-and-change
Tags: tech, career
Quite a few good lessons in there. Again it’s more about social skills than technical skills.
https://dev.jimgrey.net/2024/07/03/lessons-learned-in-35-years-of-making-software/
Tags: tech, project-management, product-management, estimates, agile
A bit long and a couple of mistakes when pointing out the flaws of story points. Still, it’s definitely a worthwhile read. Quite a lot of the criticism of story points is warranted and the proposed approach based on queue theory is welcome. This is stuff you can find in Kanban like approaches and mature XP.
https://www.brightball.com/articles/story-points-are-pointless-measure-queues
Tags: management
Nice advices to deal with underperforming teams or individuals. Making the distinction between refusal to align or failure to execute is particularly useful.
https://jackdanger.com/managing-underperformers/
Tags: tech, leadership, engineering, ecology, funny
Funny experiment at drawing parallels between engineering leadership and how you should behave when hiking in nature. This works surprisingly well.
https://jacobian.org/2024/jul/12/lnt-for-engineering-leadership/
Tags: work, life, improving, coaching, habits
This one is more self-help than I’m usually comfortable with… somehow something rung true to me with it. It’s indeed a good reminder that changing habits takes a while. It’s an exercise in patience and there are good reasons for it.
https://jeanhsu.substack.com/p/progress-can-be-slow?isFreemail=true&post_id=146457673
Tags: tech, hardware, storage, history
We keep finding floppies in use at surprising places. There’s clearly lot of inertia for technologies getting replaced.
Bye for now!