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March 4, 2024

Twenty Years Is Nothing – De Programmatica Ipsum
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Going back on the history of the introduction of version control in software engineering and how Git ended up so dominant. We often forget there was a time before Git.

Defining, Measuring, and Managing Technical Debt

A bit of a high level view on technical debt. There's a couple of interesting insights though. In particular the lack of good metrics to evaluate technical debt... and the fact that it's probably about "both the present state and the possible state" of the code base. So it's very much linked to the human cognition in order to conceive the "ideal state".

CSS for printing to paper

Nice set of tricks (might also involve Javascript, not only CSS) when you need to format web content for printing.

Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret

This is one of the main problems with using those generative models as currently provided. It's time for the legislators to step up, we can't let a couple of players hoard energy and water for themselves.