Looks like an interesting tool, it's always a bit of a problem to simulate various network conditions, especially slow links randomly dropping packets. Adding more tooling to tackle this is always welcome.
The journey of Rust inside of the Linux kernel is still in its early days. I find especially interesting the questions raised by the community. It's especially healthy in my opinion, it's not just "fancy let's have it". They also wonder about the learning path for people to join the community if it's accepted or where to best use it. It's a good account of the social aspects triggered by technical changes.
Nice piece advocating for self hosting. I especially like the fact that it stresses that it doesn't mean "one server for one person" it'd be unrealistic to turn everyone into sysadmins.
Looks like an interesting system to recognize bird sounds in the wild. I'll definitely test it.
I think this is the best analysis about GitHub Copilot so far. Clearly using it in production today carries lots of risks. It might improve in the future but only marginally and likely with quite some effort. Not sure it'll pass the threshold to be anything else than a funny toy.
It's a very nice paper on spreadsheets and how we use them. It got enough history in it to make me tick (goes back all the way to the 1300s!). Also it's well balanced, it's not just about blindly blaming tools but looks at their shortcomings but also how we often use the wrong tool for the task... and then end up managing data and knowledge really badly.
Now that looks like a very interesting modular laptop. I'd be interested to test it and would love to see some KDE stuff installed on it by default. ;-)
Nice comprehensive list of the smart pointer types in Rust.
This is a sane approach and a good list of steps for estimating at large scale.
Again, very good (and short) advice about delegation.
Very interesting exploration on software engineering "facts" and what we can really do to increase quality. Unsurprisingly caring for the people seems to be the top factor.
Good set of advice on how to handle and plan for failure when delegating.
Interesting exploration of an easy to introduce memory leak in frontend code.
And a good approach to pick what to delegate.
Interesting definition of delegation
Fascinating exploration of our perception of the blue color. Bottom line: our eyes aren't great cameras at all and the brain compensate quite a lot. This together plays against our perception of blue.
The rampant burnout epidemic in software engineering keeps growing apparently. More workload, more impatient stakeholders and less quality... With software being everywhere nowadays this is a huge problem to tackle.
A nice list of interesting nuggets from the functools python module.
Interesting use of mob/ensemble programming to tackle technical debt on projects.
OK, this is actually a very big deal. I think it's the first AAA game 3D engine which gets open sourced. This could be very impactful to the industry.