If you didn't know about quoted printable encoding. This is a way to understand it.

The ideas behind GDPR are sound. The enforcement is severely lacking though. Thus its effects are too limited.

Time to spy on the spies. Or at least know when they're around.

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.

Neat little shader for a retro demo effect.

This is a nice resource trying to document the history of computer hardware. Really cool stuff.

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.

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.

A good reminder that Git doesn't force you to use a web application to collaborate on code.

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.

Another space with rampant enshittification... No wonder users are jumping between alternatives.

Clearly a trial to keep an eye on. Some of those internal memos might prove decisive.

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.

This is indeed a very good option to have when you make a command line tool.

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.

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.

Interesting analysis. It gives a balanced view on the possible scenarios around the AI hype.

Nice retelling of the story behind WebAssembly.

Very in depth review of the mess of a Matrix home server vide coded at Cloudflare... all the way to the blog announcing it. Unsurprisingly this didn't go well and they had to cover their tracks several times. The response from the Matrix foundation is a bit underwhelming, it's one thing to be welcoming, it's another to turn a blind eye to such obvious failures. This doesn't reflect well on both Cloudflare and the Matrix Foundation I'm afraid.

Those are indeed getting more popular. In a way that's unfortunate, we shouldn't need them so much.