Interesting points. Forums are clearly not good replacements for mailing lists. They might be a good complementary to mailing lists but both have very different affordances.

I agree with this so much. It's another one of those I feel I could have written. I have a hard time thinking I could use the current crop of "inference as a service" while they carry so many ethical issues.

There's a lot of this. Learning different languages to get out of your habits definitely brings compound benefits.

Long and good walkthrough on how to render nice clouds in real time.

Is this really to improve your work? Or make you dependent? In the end it might be the user which looses.

OK, this is definitely a very cool hack. It can definitely help to debug locally.

This has been documented for a long while. Of course, it's been followed by an unhealthy fascination for the "Toyota way". This kind of cargo cult of course lead you nowhere to doing things properly. And yet, now that the dust settled, there are good lessons to learn from Toyota management back then.

This is a very rich article. There's indeed more and more a rift between Open Source projects used by hyperscalers and the ones used by smaller businesses and individuals. You likely want to aim for the latter.

Looks like the trend continues. Let's hope the Linux desktop user base will keep growing this year.

If you needed a reminder about why you can't trust WhatsApp, this is a good explanation.

There are growing concerns regarding the Rust supply chain. It's still time to address them but it's became important to tackle this area.

What's the right way to manipulate secrets in your shell to avoid leakage? The answer definitely varies, here is the paranoid version.

Wondering where Markdown is coming from and how it became such a success? The piece helps answer those questions.

There is a real question about the training data used for the coding assistant models. It's been a problem from the start raising ethical concerns, now it shows up with a different symptom.

Go and get your voice heard! This is important matter, especially if you're interested in Free Software.

This is an interesting way to frame where the effort should be spent in code reviews.

The biology of trees is just fascinating. And there's so much we still don't know about it.

Interesting point... What to do when there's no good option in the application runtime for the needed graphics drivers and kernel combination?

More interesting design ideas in uv. Didn't know about the dashmap crate they're using here it looks like a nice one too.

Wondering what's on the mind of people working on an hyperscaler? This podcast and its transcript gives good insights.