Web Review, Week 2022-11
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2022-11.
Court affirms it’s false advertising to claim software is Open Source when it’s not
Tags: legal, free-software
This is a welcome and necessary clarification. Now there is a court decision clarifying what using the “Commons Clause” mean.
Why does Google get internationalization wrong? | Smaller Fish
Tags: tech, web, internationalization
The mess of internationalization with websites doing it wrong.
https://smaller.fish/posts/language
Probably Wrong
Tags: tech, scrum, craftsmanship, tests, object-oriented
Very good reminder that as an industry we’re quick to blame external factors for our own failures. Of course we can be given a bad hand, but sometimes we’d have failed with a good hand as well.
https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-z022/0222ff/probably-wrong/
How to design better APIs
Tags: tech,, web,, api
Nothing groundbreaking regarding web service APIs, but a very reasonable list nonetheless.
https://r.bluethl.net/how-to-design-better-apis
Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation
Tags: tech, 3d, physics, pbr, shader
Looks like a very good resource about PBR.
https://www.pbr-book.org/3ed-2018/contents
H.264 is magic: a technical walkthrough of a remarkable technology.
Tags: tech, video, codec, compression
Nice higher level view of how a codec like H.264 works. Not really dive in the intricate details specific to H.264 though.
https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/
Bye for now!