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.

It looks more and more likely that the current age verification fever has dark origins...

Good exploration on how to make grid shaders. It's definitely not a simple problem.

Interesting look at Zig's comptime feature. It's not a purely Zig post though, does a good job of explaining parametricity and the implications of loosing it.

Looks like an interesting approach to lift some of the limitations around the Rust trait system. The learning curve doesn't look too great though, clearly requires effort to get into.

In praise of code reviews. This article does a good job showing all the advantages if properly managed. Teams have to pay attention to latency but otherwise you get lots of benefits for not so much time spent.

An initiative to monitor I guess. There's clearly a need for a more "opinionated" setup for Yocto based embedded systems, this is going in that direction.

Yes, we have lots of layers nowadays. But you can read them to figure out when something doesn't work like you expect. This is one of the most important skills of the trade.

Not sure it'll keep being efficient if the political heat keeps going up. Still this is a nice idea.

Excellent piece, indeed legal is not the same as legitimate. More often than not the law is lagging behind and things might be wrongly "fixed" at a later date. In that interval that's when our communities need to build its own tools to protect the commons. We're clearly reaching such an inflection point. Interestingly, I think there's is a difference of reaction between the people with a Free Software culture and the ones with an Open Source culture.

There's always an interesting lesson in this kind of failures. Here clearly it is in part a story of unchecked trust, and not planning for a bigger system. It came with real consequences too.

Obviously the essay from Peter Naur keeps popping up lately. It feels like an important piece, especially in the current atmosphere of vibe coding. This article lays out quite well why vibe coding is the opposite of what we should be doing.

This is (IMNSHO) a very important open letter. This confirms to me that the whole set of age verification laws we're seeing popup everywhere is severely misguided. Had my suspicions before of course but it's getting clearer with this one. We should stay clear from those laws as a profession, it's important to not comply, it'd be a disservice to our users.

Interesting framework of different leadership styles. They all come with their own pros and cons of course.

The point is interesting. Priorities are indeed relative and dynamic. It's impossible to put an "absolute priority value" on what needs to be done.

We should indeed put an end to those proprietary formats. It's sad to see the EU Commission contradict itself there.

A good illustration of making illegal states unrepresentable. This definitely helps with code safety.

This is definitely a cool project. I like the idea.