Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

February 3, 2026

GDPR is a failure

The ideas behind GDPR are sound. The enforcement is severely lacking though. Thus its effects are too limited.

Plasma Effect

Neat little shader for a retro demo effect.

The Retro Web
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This is a nice resource trying to document the history of computer hardware. Really cool stuff.

Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying

Time to spy on the spies. Or at least know when they're around.

From Python 3.3 to today: ending 15 years of subprocess polling

Nice improvement in Python for waiting the end of a subprocess. Explains nicely the underlying options and available syscall if you need to do the same in your code.

Flavours of Reflection

Looking at several languages and their reflection features. What's coming with C++26 is really something of another class than anything else. I just have concerned about its readability though.