Good reaction and opinion piece about the latest policy changes at Meta. This is really going to be toxic, but they just don't care at the top.

It's indeed tempting to conflate the two (at least for marketing purposes apparently, I see you LLM vendors...). Even if tempting, developer experience is definitely not equivalent to productivity.

With the progresses of CSS in recent years it's clear that SASS becomes less useful.

And now we got all the pieces to run CUDA code in the browser. How will you like your cryptominer? Joke aside this opens interesting use cases.

Interesting little study of engagement on various platforms. Clearly the Fediverse could do better in terms of avoiding "friendly fire", I suspect it's the top reason limiting its growth.

A good petition to push forward. Political leaders shouldn't keep interacting in this cesspool.

Very interesting research. Property-Based Testing made quite some progress the past few years but indeed it still needs to improve in term of usability. Looking forward to some of that research to get available in existing testing tools.

This is a good goal, I wish them luck.

Not a huge fan of the writing style and the pokemon metaphor. That said, seeing your growth as an engineer based on circles is spot on.

I wish other platforms would go through so much scrutiny. Still it gives a good idea about the mental health issue they collectively represent.

I'm not a huge fan microservice based architectures. That said the parallel done there is interesting and a good reminder that the "write programs that do one thing and do it well" quote is incomplete.

Interesting exploration on the difficulties to switch a team to XP. I'm not fully aligned with some of the fine details pointed there... That said there is a core truth that "XP is about social change" so if you mandate it as a managerial decision it can't be XP anymore.

The browser extension ecosystems are definitely a weak link in term of security. Better not have too many random extensions installed.

Need to write a tutorial? Here is a good set of rules to follow. Don't be fooled, it sounds simple but it is hard work.

Parsers are required to normalize URLs but often they just don't. To be kept in mind in your code.

Very good background information on the latest attempt at discrediting Wikipedia.

Good advice to work with large legacy code bases. You better know it very well before you make large changes to it.

Good overview on how the databases landscape evolved the past year.

Good perspective on how the generative AI space evolved in 2024. There are good news and more concerning ones in there. We'll see what 2025 brings.

The results are unsurprising. They definitely confirm what we expected. The models are good at predicting the past, they're not so great at solving problems.