Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-35.Open Source is one personTags: tech, foss, community, maintenanceThis stays true, most projects are maintained by a single person and that’s a problem. Where is the support from all the businesses benefiting from FOSS?https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-one-person/The World Runs 20 Billion Instances of Curl. Where’s the Support?Tags: tech, foss, maintenance, politicsThe situation is still complicated for maintainers… And companies benefiting from their free labor don’t get it. This leads to really stupid situations.https://thenewstack.io/the-world-runs-20-billion-instances-of-curl-wheres-the-support/Give Your Spouse the Gift of a Couple’s Email DomainTags: tech, email, productivityThis is a funny but interesting productivity tip.https://mtlynch.io/couples-email-domain/Google says a typical AI text prompt only uses 5 drops of water — experts say that’s misleadingTags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, ecology, researchWe can expect more misleading papers to be published by the big LLM providers. Don’t fall in the trap, wait for actually peer reviewed papers from academia. Unsurprisingly the results aren’t as good there.https://www.theverge.com/report/763080/google-ai-gemini-water-energy-emissions-studyNo, Google Did Not Unilaterally Decide to Kill XSLTTags: tech, google, web, xml, xslt, htmlHere is another point of view on the XSLT situation in the WHATWG. Clearly the process needs to be made clearer. I’m not necessarily convinced by everything which is brought forth in this piece, still nice to have different point of views on it.https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/08/22/no-google-did-not-unilaterally-decide-to-kill-xslt/Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next yearTags: tech, google, android, security, vendor-lockinUnsurprisingly this ecosystem keeps being more and more closed.https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/Citrix forgot to tell you CVE-2025–6543 has been used as a zero day since May 2025Tags: tech, networking, securityClearly Citrix is drowning as a product… How can people still trust the provider after such an episode?https://doublepulsar.com/citrix-forgot-to-tell-you-cve-2025-6543-has-been-used-as-a-zero-day-since-may-2025-d76574e2dd2cI Hacked Monster EnergyTags: tech, securityAlright… That’s really bad security practices. Don’t do this at home.https://bobdahacker.com/blog/monster-energyghrc.io Appears to be MaliciousTags: tech, security, containers, supply-chainMind your typos… It seems clear a bad actor is hiding behind that one.https://bmitch.net/blog/2025-08-22-ghrc-appears-malicious/Xz format inadequate for general useTags: tech, compression, safetyProbably biased, but this raises questions about xz.https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.htmlThe vulnerability might be in the proof-of-conceptTags: tech, securityNot every vulnerability reports are born equal… This can be a waste of time when the vulnerability is on the reporter end.https://sethmlarson.dev/the-vulnerability-is-in-the-proof-of-conceptPulse: A responsive monitoring application for Proxmox VETags: tech, virtualization, monitoringLooks like a nice tool to monitor your Proxmox install.https://github.com/rcourtman/PulseMaterialized views are obviously usefulTags: tech, databases, caching, complexity, architectureIndeed, if you can guarantee your materialized views to always be up to date, you might be able to get rid of some caching… and thus some complexity can be avoided.https://sophiebits.com/2025/08/22/materialized-views-are-obviously-usefulshared_ptr: the (not always) atomic reference counted smart pointerTags: tech, c++, multithreading, memory, atomics, optimizationThis is an interesting and deeply buried optimization for the GNU C++ STL implementation. I didn’t expect anything like this.https://snf.github.io/2019/02/13/shared-ptr-optimization/io_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS serverTags: tech, linux, kernel, system, performance, networkingWe really have nice facilities in the kernel to squeeze some extra performance nowadays.https://blog.habets.se/2025/04/io-uring-ktls-and-rust-for-zero-syscall-https-server.htmlTrying to get error backtraces in rust libraries rightTags: tech, rust, safety, failureClearly the error handling landscape still evolves in Rust and that’s a good thing. The current solutions are too fragmented at the moment.https://www.iroh.computer/blog/error-handling-in-irohRust for Everyone!Tags: tech, programming, debugging, learning, rustInteresting talk. The tools presented can indeed go a long way helping people figure out what’s wrong with a piece of code or learning some of the harder parts of a language.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0dP-QR5wQoGo is still not goodTags: tech, go, criticismKeep in mind this is a rant, so it likely goes over the top a bit. That said, I first hand encountered some of the constructs mentioned here… I find that surprising in such a recent language indeed.https://blog.habets.se/2025/07/Go-is-still-not-good.htmlYou no longer need JavaScriptTags: tech, web, frontend, html, cssLong but thorough collection of all the nice improvements CSS brought the past few years.https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/you-dont-need-js/Shader AcademyTags: tech, graphics, shader, learningLooks like a neat way to learn shader programming.https://shaderacademy.com/exploreHow to Slow Down a Program? And Why it Can Be UsefulTags: tech, performance, multithreadingThis can be useful indeed to explore concurrency issues. It requires some work though.https://stefan-marr.de/2025/08/how-to-slow-down-a-program/Inside Windows 3Tags: tech, windows, history, architecture, system, complexityEver wondered about how Windows 3 was architectured? This is an interesting read. It was really complex though, you can really tell it’s in the middle of several transitions.https://www.xtof.info/inside-windows3.htmlEverything I know about good API designTags: tech, web, api, designLots of good points in there. Very much focused on web services APIs, that being said the first part also applies to libraries APIs in my opinion.https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-api-design/Why I Read Technical BooksTags: tech, book, learningI think this is pretty accurate… I have mostly the same reasons.https://ratfactor.com/b/technical-booksDeveloper’s blockTags: tech, programming, motivationFeeling blocked? Maybe try a few of those things on your project.https://underlap.org/developers-block/College students are bombarded by misinformation, so this professor taught them fact-checking 101Tags: tech, social-media, fake-news, politics, teachingThe approach is good, the results are encouraging as well. Not much effort and a very visible change. We need more such initiatives.https://theconversation.com/college-students-are-bombarded-by-misinformation-so-this-professor-taught-them-fact-checking-101-heres-what-happened-262409The Relativity of Wrong by Isaac AsimovTags: philosophy, physics, scienceA very good essay which reminds us we can’t really reason in terms of absolute right or wrong.https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html?ref=DenseDiscovery-353Bye for now!