Interesting exploration of how static and dynamic dispatchs work behind the scene in Rust. The chosen tradeoffs are different than in C++ and that's something to keep in mind.
Too often people mistake the algorithmic complexity theory for the real performances you would get. This can't be further from the truth. The memory layout trumps all. As usual you need to measure.
A reminder that web frontend work isn't as easy as it sounds. It brings quite some caveats and his difficult to do well. Otherwise you wonder why things stutter or render badly.
Comparison of two concurrency models. This is a light read which shows quite well the differences.
Interesting case where you want to property test but without a specific property base test tool. Indeed, if you need to be exhaustive and the input space is small enough this is the better decision. This article also comes with interesting point on Rust type system but that's less central to the main point.
This is not indeed the win you'd expect. More surveillance coming pushed by the settlement...
There's no "apolitical" projects. Claiming the contrary is just trying to hide your agenda. While our engineer culture keeps falling for it, really bad actors are benefiting from it...
Really nice tricks you can pull with CSS nowadays. The result is fairly nice visually.
Might turn into a nice way to manage your git hooks.
Finally a sensible approach to communicate license compliance for client side content delivered via a browser. It's not too much of a bother so let's hope it gets picked up.
Clearly there's a political project behind the design of those tools. Clearly our industry is lacking enough class consciousness to push back against the "AI overlords" agenda.
Indeed, it's high time our industry leaves the "it's just a tool" rhetoric behind. This claim is a way for us to not take our responsibilities in the design of the tools we make.
Clearly the situation of copyright around LLM uses is complex. It's easy to fall into code which can't be copyrighted if there's not enough human input to produce the work (and keep in mind that "prompting" is likely not enough input). This also raises questions about potential copyright violations. Looks like following the guidelines of the SFC for contributing to Free Software projects is getting especially important.
Looks like an interesting personal indexing system for your own files and slice of the web.
Or a reminder that no system can be made to be completely safe and secure. When the political pressure or violence gets in the equation it's hard to not simply falter and satisfy the demands.
Very important opinion piece from Cory Doctorow again. The trend was clear of an epistemic crisis brewing and generative AI basically put it on steroids. This is a real blow to our civilisation.
Unsurprisingly it's not all unicorns and rainbows. This piece tries to highlight the right questions to ask yourself before aiming for a rewrite.
More proofs that HTML is more and more capable by itself.
Another love letter to SQLite. It's meant to be funny but comes with plenty of good arguments and ideas as well.
This truly makes me sad... The level of cynicism required to destroy rare books is just beyond me. All this to squeeze the last human made tokens available with no real gain in sight.