Web Review, Week 2026-04
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-04.
FOSS for digital sovereignty in the EU
Tags: tech, europe, politics, foss
Need inspiration for your answer to the European Commission call for evidence on open source? This is a good one.
https://www.more-magic.net/posts/open-source-in-the-eu.html
Writing First, Tooling Second
Tags: tech, web, self-hosting, blog, writing
Get out and write indeed. You can fiddle with the tools later.
https://susam.net/writing-first-tooling-second.html
Attention Media ≠ Social Media
Tags: tech, social-media, attention-economy, fediverse
There was indeed another path for social media… Let’s hope the Fediverse stay on its current course.
https://susam.net/attention-media-is-not-social-media.html
Why people believe misinformation even when they’re told the facts
Tags: tech, social-media, fake-news, attention-economy
Or why the focus on fact checking is doomed to fail. You can’t ignore our biases, the social context, and above all the toxic architecture of the big social medias.
https://theconversation.com/why-people-believe-misinformation-even-when-theyre-told-the-facts-271236
Deep reading can boost your critical thinking and help you resist misinformation – here’s how to build the skill
Tags: tech, reading, social-media
Not all reading is born equal. The intent matters quite a lot. Build the skill, it’ll last a life time.
Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots
Tags: tech, university, teaching, ai, machine-learning, gpt, ethics, foss
Interesting ideas on how to approach teaching at the university. It gives a few clue on how to deal with chatbots during exams, can be improved but definitely a good start.
https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html
Why We’ve Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969
Tags: tech, programming, business, leadership, complexity, history
Good historical perspective about the attempts to get rid of developers. This never unfold as envisioned. This is mostly about the intellectual work to build artifacts handling the world complexity, and this doesn’t go away.
https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2025/12/07/the-recurring-dream-of-replacing-developers.html
Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains
Tags: tech, packaging, supply-chain, security
New packaging ecosystems bring their new attack vectors. This is definitely a teething problem which will need to be addressed soon.
https://blog.popey.com/2026/01/malware-purveyors-taking-over-published-snap-email-domains/
An adversarial coding test
Tags: tech, security, ide
Are you sure you want to trust that random project you got provided with? Really?
https://runjak.codes/posts/2026-01-21-adversarial-coding-test/
Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, speech
Sounds like a very interesting model (pun intended). It’s really nice to pack that much performance in a smaller neural network.
https://kyutai.org/blog/2026-01-13-pocket-tts
Personal infrastructure setup 2026
Tags: tech, self-hosting, infrastructure
Nice ideas for setting up your own infrastructure at home.
https://linderud.dev/blog/personal-infrastructure-setup-2026/
Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations
Tags: tech, databases, postgresql, optimization, performance
When everything obvious fails… there are still optimisation tricks available for your databases.
https://hakibenita.com/postgresql-unconventional-optimizations
Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing
Tags: tech, data-science, databases, pandas, duckdb
I definitely would like to have some time to fiddle with DuckDB more. It looks like a really neat alternative to something like pandas.
https://www.robinlinacre.com/recommend_duckdb/
Understanding C++ Ownership System
Tags: tech, c++, memory, type-systems
Nice introduction of the C++ ownership system. Nothing new under the sun obviously but since I still encounter developers struggling with this, such introductory material is nice to have handy for sharing.
https://blog.aiono.dev/posts/understanding-c++-ownership-system.html
Rust’s Culture of Semantic Precision
Tags: tech, rust, culture
This is indeed an important cultural trait in the Rust community. This can bring challenge when integrating Rust code into a context with more ambiguity.
https://www.alilleybrinker.com/mini/rusts-culture-of-semantic-precision/
LikeC4
Tags: tech, architecture, c4, tools
Still young and pretty much a one man show. This could turn into a nice tool to use C4 more productively.
Pushing the smallest possible change to production
Tags: tech, team, organisation
This is good advice. Going for something extremely small first is a good way to on board in a new project.
https://ankursethi.com/blog/smallest-possible-change/
A year in the life of a Staff Engineer
Tags: tech, tech-lead, leadership, management, product-management, engineering
This is a good overview of what the Staff Engineer can be. There’s of course a lot of variation depending on time, priorities and the culture of the organisation.
https://medium.com/@_davidanderson/a-year-in-the-life-of-a-staff-engineer-84ae9f6963c1
Work friends are the secret to great culture
Tags: tech, work, team, culture, leadership
Feels a bit odd to go to such length to put it in numbers. And yet, it’s clear that friendships in the workplace are a must. They should be fostered rather than stifled.
https://www.makeworkbetter.info/p/work-friends-are-the-secret-to-great
The Most Powerful Pirate In History
Tags: history
Fascinating story. Some people shouldn’t be forgotten.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2lkVlB96y4
Bye for now!