Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-40.Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save ItTags: tech, web, historyExcellent profile of Tim Berners-Lee.Go and read it! It’ll give a lively impression of the Web early history. It’s amazing how, back then, he managed to fend of the greed of corporate interests in order to make sure his original vision would survive. Of course not everything materialized, most notably the Semantic Web (sadly).Nowadays, the real question is the fragmentation due to the big closed platforms power grab and the political context. Can we still save the Web? For sure there’s no clear path yet.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/06/tim-berners-lee-invented-the-world-wide-web-now-he-wants-to-save-it?ref=newsletter.weeklyfilet.comF-Droid says Google’s new sideloading restrictions will kill the projectTags: tech, android, foss, law, googleWith the latest rulings Google feel like the ecosystem might escape its grip… So they plan to tighten it.https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/f-droid-calls-for-regulators-to-stop-googles-crackdown-on-sideloading/Asked to do something illegal at work? Here’s what these software engineers didTags: tech, lawOr on the importance of being able to say “no”. If you see something fishy, at least refuse to participate in it.https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/asked-to-do-something-illegal-at-work/I’ve locked myself out of my digital lifeTags: tech, security, safety, recoveryYour digital life is secure? Good… now is it really safe? Can you recover in case of a catastrophic event?https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/06/ive-locked-myself-out-of-my-digital-life/GitFlow considered harmfulTags: tech, git, version-control, complexity, organization, teamAn old series of posts which highlights quite well why GitFlow can be a problem and that you likely want something simpler. Since I still find GitFlow often recommended as a knee-jerk reaction, this is a good article to have in hand.https://www.endoflineblog.com/gitflow-considered-harmfulIntroducing tdom: HTML templating with t‑stringsTags: tech, python, templating, htmlEarly days but it looks like an interesting use of the t-strings introduced in Python 3.14.https://davepeck.org/2025/09/22/introducing-tdom-html-templating-with-python-t-strings/Small DataTags: tech, architecture, hardware, performance, data, data-scienceMaybe it’s time to stop obsessing about scale and distributed architectures? The hardware has been improved quite a bit at the right places, especially storage.https://topicpartition.io/definitions/small-dataRedis is fast - I’ll cache in PostgresTags: tech, databases, caching, architecture, complexityYes an external cache is definitely faster. That said does your application need the extra complexity? Is the caching in database really the bottleneck? If not, the question of the external cache is still open.https://dizzy.zone/2025/09/24/Redis-is-fast-Ill-cache-in-Postgres/Don’t Put Logic in TestsTags: tech, tests, tdd, complexityMaybe a bit extreme as an example, but highlights quite well why you want to limit logic in tests as much as possible.https://testing.googleblog.com/2014/07/testing-on-toilet-dont-put-logic-in.htmlToo DRY DRY, Hush HushTags: tech, craftsmanship, complexity, maintenanceIndeed, most complaints against “Don’t Repeat Yourself” (DRY) are really arguments against a strawman. Of course you can go wrong, it’s like everything else it’s about balance… reducing the DRY guideline to a caricature to get rid of it won’t help.https://codingcraftsman.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/too-dry-dry-hush-hush-2/What is “good taste” in software engineering?Tags: tech, engineering, craftsmanship, team, qualityI’m not fully aligned with all of this article. That said, it’s an interesting way to frame the topic of how we’re having to make tradeoffs all the time.https://www.seangoedecke.com/taste/PrioritiesTags: tech, project-management, technical-debtThere are indeed way to deal with important but lower priority tasks. You want to tackle those to avoid your teams to slow down too dramatically.https://archaeologist.dev/artifacts/prioritiesUseful engineering management artifactsTags: tech, engineering, management, leadership, organizationNice list of templates to use for better handling of engineering management in your organisation. Pick, choose and adapt what makes sense to the context.https://bjorg.bjornroche.com/management/engineering-management-artifacts/Stop Avoiding PoliticsTags: tech, organization, team, politics, decision-makingGood opinion piece, I wholeheartedly agree with the author on the topic. Like it or not, politics happen in organizations. Ignoring this fact is an enabler for bad decision making.https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/10/01/stop-avoiding-politics/Bye for now!