Web Review, Week 2026-06
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-06.
The Retro Web
Tags: tech, hardware, history
This is a nice resource trying to document the history of computer hardware. Really cool stuff.
IndieWebify.Me? Yes please!
Tags: tech, web, blog, self-hosting, indie
Looks like an interesting tool to check you’re doing “everything right” on your blog. That said, it looks like quite a few hoops to jump through. I wish there’d be a way to make all this a bit easier.
https://blog.rickardlindberg.me/2026/02/04/indie-webify-me-yes-please.html
“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial
Tags: tech, social-media, attention-economy, law
Clearly a trial to keep an eye on. Some of those internal memos might prove decisive.
Backseat Software
Tags: tech, product-management, metrics, ux, attention-economy, surveillance, history
Excellent historical perspective on how we ended up with applications filled with annoying interruptions and notifications. It’s been done indeed one step at a time and lead to poor UX really.
https://blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-software/
AdNauseam
Tags: tech, web, browser, advertisement, attention-economy, privacy
I’m not sure I’m quite ready to use this… Still I like the idea, make some noise and have companies turning to those invasive ads to just pay for nothing. The more users the better I guess.
Europe’s tech sovereignty watch
Tags: tech, europe, business, politics, vendor-lockin
Despite clearly being an advertisement for Proton’s offering, this shows how reliant European companies are on vendors showing strategic problems. We can cheer at the EU policies when they go in the right direction. It’s probably not enough already, but the European companies are clearly asleep at the wheel.
https://proton.me/business/europe-tech-watch
GDPR is a failure
Tags: tech, law, gdpr
The ideas behind GDPR are sound. The enforcement is severely lacking though. Thus its effects are too limited.
https://nikolak.com/gdpr-failure/
Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
Tags: tech, mobile, gps, privacy, surveillance, protocols
Yep, it’s worse than the usual triangulation everyone thinks about. It’s right there in the protocol, or why you’d better not let the GPS on all the time.
https://an.dywa.ng/carrier-gnss.html
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
Tags: tech, spy, surveillance, mobile, hardware
Time to spy on the spies. Or at least know when they’re around.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying
What If? AI in 2026 and Beyond
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, business, economics
Interesting analysis. It gives a balanced view on the possible scenarios around the AI hype.
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/what-if-ai-in-2026-and-beyond/
Selfish AI
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, copyright, ecology, economics, ethics
Let’s not forget the ethical implications of those tools indeed. Too often people put them aside simply on the “oooh shiny toys” or the “I don’t want to be left behind” reactions. Both lead to a very unethical situation.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-ai
The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are abandoning Postman and its clones?
Tags: tech, web, api, tests
Another space with rampant enshittification… No wonder users are jumping between alternatives.
https://efp.asia/blog/2025/12/24/api-tooling-crisis/
What’s up with all those equals signs anyway?
Tags: tech, email, encodings
If you didn’t know about quoted printable encoding. This is a way to understand it.
https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/02/whats-up-with-all-those-equals-signs-anyway/
The Disconnected Git Workflow
Tags: tech, git, email
A good reminder that Git doesn’t force you to use a web application to collaborate on code.
https://ploum.net/2026-01-31-offline-git-send-email.html
4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync)
Tags: tech, networking, syncing
Need to move many files around? Rsync might not be the best option anymore.
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/4x-faster-network-file-sync-rclone-vs-rsync/
From Python 3.3 to today: ending 15 years of subprocess polling
Tags: tech, python, processes, system
Nice improvement in Python for waiting the end of a subprocess. Explains nicely the underlying options and available syscall if you need to do the same in your code.
https://gmpy.dev/blog/2026/event-driven-process-waiting
Django: profile memory usage with Memray
Tags: tech, python, memory, profiling, django
Looks surprisingly easy to profile the Django startup. Probably makes sense to profile other parts of your application but this is likely a bit more involved.
https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/01/29/django-profile-memray/
Flavours of Reflection
Tags: tech, reflection, type-systems, c++, java, python, dotnet, rust
Looking at several languages and their reflection features. What’s coming with C++26 is really something of another class than anything else. I just have concerned about its readability though.
https://semantics.bernardteo.me/2026/01/30/flavours-of-reflection.html
In Praise of –dry-run
Tags: tech, tools, tests, command-line
This is indeed a very good option to have when you make a command line tool.
https://henrikwarne.com/2026/01/31/in-praise-of-dry-run/
Some Data Should Be Code
Tags: tech, data, programming, buildsystems, infrastructure, automation
There is some truth to this. Moving some things to data brings interesting properties but it’s a two edged sword. Things are simpler to use when kept as code. Maybe code emitting structured data.
https://borretti.me/article/some-data-should-be-code
Plasma Effect
Tags: tech, graphics, shader
Neat little shader for a retro demo effect.
https://www.4rknova.com/blog/2016/11/01/plasma
Forget technical debt
Tags: tech, technical-debt, engineering, organisation
Interesting insight. Gives a lot to ponder indeed. Focusing on technical debt alone probably won’t improve a project much. It’s thus important to take a broader view for long lasting improvements.
https://www.ufried.com/blog/forget_technical_debt/
Bye for now!