Web Review, Week 2026-27
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-27.
What happened to the fight for the Internet?
Tags: tech, politics, surveillance
Excellent piece, where are the netizens who should be fighting back those bills? Looks like we became very complacent and passivity reigns this time around. Didn’t think it was related to the pervasive centralisation already in place… but indeed that might be a strong contributing factor.
https://dustycloud.org/blog/what-happened-to-the-fight-for-the-internet/
Age verification is just a precursor to attribution of speech
Tags: tech, politics, law, surveillance
Definitely this, we can’t trust this kind of mechanism for what they open the door to.
https://nonogra.ph/age-verification-is-just-a-precursor-to-attribution-of-speech-06-29-2026
my review of uruky
Tags: tech, web, search
Several times I bump into articles praising this one. I’ve been test driving it a bit, the experience is still a bit bare but it’s clearly maturing. Definitely an option to keep an eye on in my opinion.
https://blog.sulimans.space/my-review-of-uruky/
Zuckerberg’s increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers
Tags: tech, social-media, facebook, ethics
There might be a method behind the madness of the thin skinned autocrat heading Meta… Unfortunately it probably works.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/27/zuckerstreisand-2/
Chatbots vs. Ozone
Tags: tech, geospatial, ai, machine-learning, gpt, economics, ecology
More reasons why the whole “data centers in space idea” is stupidly dangerous and likely unreachable.
https://blog.dshr.org/2026/05/chatbots-vs-ozone.html?m=1
Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, trust, security, privacy
You sure you can trust those systems? It’s proprietary software and they’re clearly on a slippery slop. For something so security sensitive this is concerning.
https://thereallo.dev/blog/claude-code-prompt-steganography
Prompt Injection as Role Confusion
Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, cognition, security, safety
Interesting paper (go to the full one for all the details) which shows that with the current architecture it’s really hard if not impossible to make safe systems with LLMs. This gives interesting insights in the weird form of proto-cognition those models exhibit.
https://role-confusion.github.io/
Text Editor: Data Structures
Tags: tech, text, editor, design
Neat introduction to the right data structures to use when making a text editor.
https://www.averylaird.com/programming/the%20text%20editor/2017/09/30/the-piece-table.html
Engineering High-Performance Parsers with Data-Oriented Design
Tags: tech, data-oriented, architecture, performance, parsing
Interesting article applying data oriented design to parsing tasks. This is really a good approach for performance.
https://www.arshad.fyi/writings/engineering-high-performance-parsers
Data Access Patterns That Makes Your CPU Really Angry
Tags: tech, cpu, memory, hardware, performance
Interesting experiment on how to totally break the performance of memory accesses. This gives good insights on the whole chain works.
https://blog.weineng.me/posts/slowest_add/
The Physics of Memory
Tags: tech, javascript, memory, data-oriented, performance
Unsurprisingly cache locality is a very important factor. What’s interesting here is that it still applies to a language like Javascript where you’d expect to not have enough control on the memory layout to reap any benefits.
https://www.dmurph.com/posts/2026/06/ecs_vs_oop_benchmark/ecs_vs_oop_benchmark.html
High-performance Rust: Understanding and eliminating memory fragmentation
Tags: tech, rust, memory, embedded, performance
Interesting Rust options to limit the amount of heap allocations if you’re constrained by memory or for performance reasons.
https://kerkour.com/rust-high-performance-memory-fragmentation-allocations
Hobby’s algorithm for aesthetic Bézier splines
Tags: tech, graphics, mathematics
Interested in splines? This is a gentle introduction which points to further resources if you want to implement them.
https://www.jakelow.com/blog/hobby-curves#fn-2
What To Learn To Be A Real Time Graphics Programmer
Tags: tech, 3d, shader, mathematics, graphics
Wondering what to learn to get into graphics programming? This is a nice list.
https://blog.demofox.org/2026/07/01/what-to-learn-to-be-a-graphics-programmer/
Announcing Box3D
Tags: tech, physics, simulation, 3d
Exciting! This looks like a neat 3D physics engine.
https://box2d.org/posts/2026/06/announcing-box3d/
The essence of architectural work
Tags: tech, architecture, complexity
This is an ongoing series, but there are good insights about software architecture work in the first few articles. Shows quite well the important tradeoffs and the usual traps.
https://www.ufried.com/blog/essence_of_architecture_1/
Every bottlenose dolphin invents a unique whistle that becomes its name
Tags: biology, nature, cognition
So using personal names is not an inherently human trait, this is confirmed through research now. Before their were signs and suspicions, but now the trail of evidences is strong.
Notes from a burning Paris
Tags: climate, ecology
This is what things will look like in the coming years. Only probably worse, and for more and more people.
https://sarahwilson.substack.com/p/notes-from-a-burning-paris
Bye for now!