Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

August 27, 2025

College students are bombarded by misinformation, so this professor taught them fact-checking 101
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The approach is good, the results are encouraging as well. Not much effort and a very visible change. We need more such initiatives.

The World Runs 20 Billion Instances of Curl. Where's the Support?

The situation is still complicated for maintainers... And companies benefiting from their free labor don't get it. This leads to really stupid situations.

Give Your Spouse the Gift of a Couple's Email Domain

This is a funny but interesting productivity tip.

shared_ptr<T>: the (not always) atomic reference counted smart pointer

This is an interesting and deeply buried optimization for the GNU C++ STL implementation. I didn't expect anything like this.

Trying to get error backtraces in rust libraries right
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Clearly the error handling landscape still evolves in Rust and that's a good thing. The current solutions are too fragmented at the moment.