Web Review, Week 2024-49
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2024-49.
Pourquoi les médias devraient créer des serveurs Mastodon maintenant
Tags: tech, social-media, fediverse, bluesky, politics, business
Article in French
Very good piece explaining why the Ferdiverse is currently our only option for a decentralized social media platform. Maybe Bluesky will become another option… maybe… but so far it’s only empty promises with a real risk of capture.
Core copyright violation claim moves ahead in The Intercept’s lawsuit against OpenAI
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copyright, law
Another lawsuit making progress against OpenAI and their shady practice.
New era of slop security reports for open source
Tags: tech, security, ai, machine-learning, gpt
Let’s hope security teams don’t get saturated with low quality security reports like this…
https://sethmlarson.dev/slop-security-reports
SmolVLM - small yet mighty Vision Language Model
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, vision
Nice vision model. Looks like it strikes and interesting balance between performance and memory consumption. Looks doable to run cheaply and on premise.
https://huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm
First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released - Software Freedom Conservancy
Tags: tech, foss, hardware, networking
This is an excellent milestone reached for the OpenWrt project. Easily available hardware is a must. It’s rather cheap too.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/nov/29/openwrt-one-wireless-router-now-ships-black-friday/
Why pipes sometimes get “stuck”: buffering
Tags: tech, unix, system
Good post about the very much overlooked fact that lots of command buffer internally when their output is not a TTY.
https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/11/29/why-pipes-get-stuck-buffering/
Compilation on the GPU?
Tags: tech, compiler, gpu, research
Interesting research about feasibility of making compilers parallelized on the GPU. I wonder how far this will go.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145⁄3528416.3530249
Legacy Safety: The Wrocław C++ Meeting
Tags: tech, c++, safety
Interesting piece, it highlights well the struggle for the C++ community to come up with a cohesive approach to improve safety. It doesn’t look like the solution is going to come from the standardization committee (unfortunately).
https://cor3ntin.github.io/posts/profiles/
Structured Binding Upgrades in C++26
Tags: tech, c++
Very nice improvements finally coming to structured bindings indeed. Should make them even more useful.
https://biowpn.github.io/bioweapon/2024/12/03/structured-bindings-cpp26.html
Why I Hate Language Benchmarks - gingerBill
Tags: tech, language, benchmarking
Comparing languages based on some benchmark is probably a fool’s errand indeed. To many factors can change between language and benchmark implementations.
https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2024/01/22/comparing-language-benchmarks/
If Not React, Then What?
Tags: tech, web, frontend, react, criticism, product-management, performance
Excellent piece which shows why React (or Angular) is almost always a bad choice and that you’d be better off banking on the underlying web platform. It leads to better user experience full stop. The article also goes in great length debunking the claims which keep React dominant.
https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/
Building A Strong Ownership Culture in A Team
Tags: tech, engineering, management
Nice example of organization to foster more autonomy and ownership in engineering teams. Clearly needs to be adapted to the project context but gives quite a few ideas. It strikes a nice balance at keeping both an individual and a team view of the responsibilities.
https://candost.blog/strong-ownership-culture-in-a-team/
An introduction to thinking about risk - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Tags: tech, project-management, risk
Excellent article introducing how to analyse risks.
https://jacobian.org/2024/dec/4/risk-introduction/
Tying Engineering Metrics to Business Metrics
Tags: tech, engineering, business, metrics
Good mulling for thought. It’s always a bit challenging to nicely explain the tie between engineering metrics and how they impact the business. This is a nice starting point.
https://icchasethi.medium.com/tying-engineering-metrics-to-business-metrics-f4df7651e026
Bye for now!