Could it get more intrusive than this? It's really handing over sensitive data to shady companies...
It feels like staring in the abyss... rather sad I'd say.
This is an excellent piece if you like linguistics and its historical component. It shows quite well how much English changed over the centuries.
Short explanation of why you want to make invalid state impossible to represent. This leads to nice properties in your code, the price to pay is introducing more types to encode the invariants of course.
Interesting shell based test framework targeting pure POSIX. This makes it fairly portable. It feels a bit raw but there are a few interesting ideas in there.
If you're wondering the kind of dumpster fire Facebook is now, that gives an idea. It was crap all along for sure, but clearly they crossed another threshold.
Nice little git trick. We can all thank the CIA I guess?
The previous piece about the disagreement with Cory Doctorow was a good one even though I didn't put it in my review. This one is more important though! It's a necessary reminder that we can't put allies on a pedestal and then scream at them making mistakes or having different opinions. We can't afford this kind of purity culture... Especially right now.
Still a bit mysterious but could be interesting if they really deliver.
Interesting first article, I wonder what the rest of the series will have in store. In any case this shows how practical it is to use the Django ORM standalone. This opens the door to nice use cases.
I was so waiting for someone motivated enough to publish a review of that paper. I indeed threw it away as weak after reading it. Thanks for taking the time to write this up! This is good scientific inquiry... and it shows there were interesting findings in the paper that the authors decided to just ignore.
Still young but looks like a nice option to write GUI tests for Qt based applications.
Another example of how much of a problem this is for some projects. Of course it is compounded by having so many projects on GitHub, this pushes people to try to farm for activity to attempt to make their resume look good. This is sad.
I've always been fascinated by steganography. It's a good reminder that the basics are fairly simple.
We got some math for that! No need to guess.
A good one page primer on how terminal emulators are designed.
Interesting lessons indeed. Especially the first one: "Technology is inherently political, and anyone telling you otherwise is trying to hide their politics." As tech people we too often forget this is all "sociotechnical", no tech is designed and used in a vacuum.
Are we on the verge to a push toward a mainframe based future? I really hope not, but for sure the hardware prices surging won't make things easy.
Interesting setup for self hosting on immutable infrastructure using bootc.
A small change in the standard, but it opens the door to interesting uses.