This is an account of how dark things can become when you align your identity with your contributions. Stay healthy, stay safe!

These are good rules. Take inspiration from them.

Nice little quality of life improvements coming to std::span in C++26.

Interesting list and way to frame the problem. It's important to maintain this resource, an update is likely needed.

Let's not forget where we're coming from and why window managers tend to be merged with display server. It removes some complexity and some latency.

Nice algorithm for rendering fonts. Turns out it's not patent encumbered anymore, this is good news.

Interesting read on how the CPython JIT effort has been saved.

Or why this latest trend in genAI hype is a fool's errand.

The commentaries and analysis of those unjust laws continues. The motives behind the people pushing for them are getting clearer and it isn't pretty.

Also, it's likely a pessimistic estimate... Indeed, it's mostly based on a list from Kagi, which likely doesn't list many sites which would qualify.

Looks like an interesting ORM which brings advantages of the Django one without all the bagage. It's still young, let's see how it evolves.

Vulkan compute shaders are very much capable nowadays. Exemplified by its use in FFmpeg.

Let's help them help us. There are a few things to have in place for governments to be able to pay maintainers.

Here are the main levers to make Python code faster. Tries also to distinguish the effort level of each approach.

Interesting model for bringing architectural and organisational changes. This is indeed at least in part political games... so you need some political capital to spend.

Kind of obvious I think, but this likely bears repeating. Containers are not a magical recipe for security. There are many attack vectors to keep in mind and evaluate.

Wondering how JPEG works? Here is a primer.

On the little known history of Lotus Notes. Crossed its path as a teenager during an internship at a bank. Can't say I remember it fondly though.

Good initiative to push these unjust laws to their limits. Hopefully it'll show how absurd they are.

Interesting lesson here. It looks like XML still has its place in our modern tool belts. We should stop dismissing it too quickly.