Web Review, Week 2026-08
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-08.
I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers
Tags: tech, linux, documentation
This is indeed an excellent technical documentation wiki for the Linux ecosystem.
https://k7r.eu/i-love-the-work-of-the-archwiki-maintainers/
Four Lessons From Civic Tech
Tags: tech, politics, commons, business
Interesting lessons indeed. Especially the first one: “Technology is inherently political, and anyone telling you otherwise is trying to hide their politics.” As tech people we too often forget this is all “sociotechnical”, no tech is designed and used in a vacuum.
Hold on to Your Hardware
Tags: tech, hardware, ai, machine-learning, gpt, economics
Are we on the verge to a push toward a mainframe based future? I really hope not, but for sure the hardware prices surging won’t make things easy.
https://xn–gckvb8fzb.com/hold-on-to-your-hardware/
The case for gatekeeping, or: why medieval guilds had it figured out
Tags: tech, foss, community, craftsmanship, ai, copilot, slop
Kind of resonate oddly with the string of talks I gave talking about craftsmanship a decade ago. Looks like FOSS communities at large have no choice but get inspired by such old practice.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-gatekeeping-or-why-medieval-guilds-had-it-figured-out/
Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in ‘AI slop’ code contributions
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, copilot, slop, github
Another example of how much of a problem this is for some projects. Of course it is compounded by having so many projects on GitHub, this pushes people to try to farm for activity to attempt to make their resume look good. This is sad.
What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You
Tags: tech, bluetooth, security, privacy
Bluetooth might be convenient, clearly it leads to metadata leakage though.
https://blog.dmcc.io/journal/2026-bluetooth-privacy-bluehood/
Obfuscate data by hiding it in images
Tags: tech, security, cryptography, colors, graphics
I’ve always been fascinated by steganography. It’s a good reminder that the basics are fairly simple.
Self-hosting my websites using bootable containers
Tags: tech, linux, bootc, system, systemd, self-hosting
Interesting setup for self hosting on immutable infrastructure using bootc.
https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/self-hosting-my-websites-using-bootable-containers/
TIL: Docker log rotation
Tags: tech, docker, logging
I find surprising it’s not by default… But here we are.
https://ntietz.com/blog/til-docker-log-rotation/
Compendium
Tags: tech, system, observability, strace, linux
Still very young but it looks like it might become a nice and friendly alternative to strace.
https://pker.xyz/posts/compendium
Linux terminal emulator architecture
Tags: tech, linux, terminal, system
A good one page primer on how terminal emulators are designed.
Runtime validation in type annotations
Tags: tech, python, type-systems
Interesting new tricks with the introspection of Python type annotations.
https://blog.natfu.be/validation-in-type-annotations/
How bad can Python stop-the-world pauses get?
Tags: tech, python, memory, performance
Of course it’s a question of the amount of allocations you need.
https://lemire.me/blog/2026/02/15/how-bad-can-python-stop-the-world-pauses-get/
C++26: std::is_within_lifetime
Tags: tech, c++, type-systems
A small change in the standard, but it opens the door to interesting uses.
https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/02/18/cpp26-std_is_within_lifetime
spix: UI test automation library for QtQuick/QML Apps
Tags: tech, qt, tests, gui
Still young but looks like a nice option to write GUI tests for Qt based applications.
https://github.com/faaxm/spix?tab=readme-ov-file
Fast sorting, branchless by design
Tags: tech, algorithm, security
Didn’t know about sorting networks. They have interesting properties and are definitely good options on modern hardware.
https://00f.net/2026/02/17/sorting-without-leaking-secrets/
How Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerate
Tags: tech, game, optimisation, assembly, graphics
Interesting insights from optimisations done on the Quake engine almost thirty years ago.
https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_asm_optimizations/index.html
Font Rendering from First Principles
Tags: tech, fonts, graphics
We take font rendering for granted but this is more complex than one might think.
https://mccloskeybr.com/articles/font_rendering.html
Modern CSS Code Snippets
Tags: tech, web, frontend, css
Another nice resource to discover newer CSS idioms.
Stop Guessing Worker Counts
Tags: tech, distributed, messaging, performance
We got some math for that! No need to guess.
The 12-Factor App - 15 Years later. Does it Still Hold Up in 2026?
Tags: tech, services, infrastructure, cloud, devops
A bit buzzword oriented, still I think it’s true that most of those principles make sense.
The only developer productivity metrics that matter
Tags: tech, agile, productivity, metrics
I agree with this very much. The only productivity metric in the end is the end-user satisfaction.
https://genehack.blog/2026/02/the-only-developer-productivity-metrics-that-matter/
You can code only 4 hours per day. Here’s why.
Tags: tech, engineering, cognition, organisation, communication, productivity
Quite some good tips in there. If you want to do deep work you need to arrange your organisation for it. Using asynchronous communication more is also key in my opinion.
https://newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com/p/you-can-code-only-4-hours-per-day
Poor Deming never stood a chance
Tags: management, leadership
Interesting comparison of Drucker’s and Deming’s approaches to management. One is easier while the other is clearly demanding but brings lasting improvements.
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/16/poor-deming-never-stood-a-chance/
In a blind test, audiophiles couldn’t tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud
Tags: audio, music, physics, funny
Can we stop with the audiophile snobbery now?
Bye for now!