Daily Shaarli
May 8, 2025
Or why I really hate the whole certification business. Especially for process and practice's related topics, this pushes the multiplication of brands and churches to sustain them. The right approach is almost always a blend of different influences and flavours.
Nice docker recipe indeed for small and secure containers when you just want to ship a statically linked binary.
It's written and illustrated in a C++ context, but the advice is widely applicable. You should know well the libraries you use on your projects.
Or why it's important to deeply understand what you do and what you use. Cranking features and throwing code to the wall until it sticks will never lead to good engineering. Even if it's abstractions all the way, it's for convenience but don't treat them as black boxes.
Interestingly this article draws a parallel with organizations too. Isn't having very siloed teams the same as treating abstractions as black boxes?
Quite some food for thought here.
Looks like the protocols landscape for writing LLM based agents will turn into a mess.
A nice example which shows the value proposition of Rust is not simply memory safety. Having a stricter type system and properly designed based types help a lot to catch mistakes early.
The ranges are improving in the STL. This is definitely welcome.