Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

February 20, 2026

The path to ubiquitous AI

Still a bit mysterious but could be interesting if they really deliver.

spix: UI test automation library for QtQuick/QML Apps
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Still young but looks like a nice option to write GUI tests for Qt based applications.

Obfuscate data by hiding it in images

I've always been fascinated by steganography. It's a good reminder that the basics are fairly simple.

Linux terminal emulator architecture

A good one page primer on how terminal emulators are designed.

Hold on to Your Hardware
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Are we on the verge to a push toward a mainframe based future? I really hope not, but for sure the hardware prices surging won't make things easy.

Django ORM Standalone: Querying an existing database

Interesting first article, I wonder what the rest of the series will have in store. In any case this shows how practical it is to use the Django ORM standalone. This opens the door to nice use cases.

Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions
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Another example of how much of a problem this is for some projects. Of course it is compounded by having so many projects on GitHub, this pushes people to try to farm for activity to attempt to make their resume look good. This is sad.

Reviewing "How AI Impacts Skill Formation"
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I was so waiting for someone motivated enough to publish a review of that paper. I indeed threw it away as weak after reading it. Thanks for taking the time to write this up! This is good scientific inquiry... and it shows there were interesting findings in the paper that the authors decided to just ignore.

Stop Guessing Worker Counts

We got some math for that! No need to guess.

Four Lessons From Civic Tech

Interesting lessons indeed. Especially the first one: "Technology is inherently political, and anyone telling you otherwise is trying to hide their politics." As tech people we too often forget this is all "sociotechnical", no tech is designed and used in a vacuum.