Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-26.Look, just fucking use Mastodon alreadyTags: tech, social-media, fediverse, bluesky, decentralizedAren’t the signs clear enough yet? Don’t get misled by Bluesky.https://giants-club.net/articles/just-use-mastodon/W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open DataTags: tech, social-media, europe, politicsI wish people will stay clear of this newer social media… It already smells really bad in its practice.https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/Apertus LLM Family Expansion via Distillation and QuantizationTags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, fossSome news from the Apertus project, they released smaller models. Interesting work.https://apertvs.ai/articles/2026-06-apertus-mini/Yale researchers propose ‘copyleft’ rules for generative AITags: tech, foss, licensing, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilotThis is an interesting proposal, let’s hope it gets picked up and appear in more licenses.https://news.yale.edu/2026/06/15/yale-researchers-propose-copyleft-rules-generative-aiAnthropic accuses Chinese rival Alibaba of illicitly extracting AI capabilitiesTags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copyright, politicsRemind me how your built your models in the first place? Yeah right…https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyklykn5dwoThe Shared Feeling of Being Harvested by the FutureTags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, surveillance, attention-economy, politics, economicsVery sobering opinion piece. For all the talks about a China / USA race, it feels more like two flavors of the same dystopia. The race is just here to justify acting against their own population interest. The result is then the increase in illiberal fixations and nihilistic world views. This can’t end well.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/opinion/us-china-ai-future.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qlA.4T9r.BLss9eBMrQotEchoes of the AI WinterTags: tech, ai, historyWhen you ignore history, you’re bound to repeat the same mistakes. There’s clearly a trend of overpromising and then failing to deliver.https://netzhansa.com/echoes-of-the-ai-winter/Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring youTags: tech, input, performance, design, history, appleA long but very interesting piece starting all the way from early typing on machines to more modern input systems. It’s very focused on Apple machines towards the end, but there are good design lessons to draw from the long perspective.https://aresluna.org/show-your-hands-honor/It’s Only When You Look BackTags: tech, historyInteresting look back at how our industry evolved. Quite a few events over the years.https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/06/17/25-its-only-when-you-look-back/Emacs 31 Is Around the Corner: The Changes I’m Already Daily DrivingTags: tech, editor, emacsNot CE features coming out of the box in the next Emacs release.https://www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/emacs-31-around-the-cornerRFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY MethodTags: tech, http, standardLooks like we’re getting a new HTTP method. This should help remove ambiguous POST calls when really what you want is to query. This is long overdue, let’s hope this new QUERY method sees quick adoption in servers, frameworks and services.https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008/What can wonky APIs tell us about the web?Tags: tech, web, api, maintenanceDesigning APIs for the Web platform is hard and error-prone. This is why it carries baggage, here is a good example.https://alexwlchan.net/2026/wonky-web-apis/Configuration is a liability, just like codeTags: tech, system, config, complexity, maintenanceIndeed, we try to limit the amount of code we need to maintain. But configuration can bring its own complexity and maintenance burden as well.https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/ConfigurationIsALiabilityImprovements to std::format in C++26Tags: tech, c++Those improvements are welcome. I wish we’d see more std::format uses.https://mariusbancila.ro/blog/2026/06/19/improvements-to-stdformat-in-c26/Rewriting the world in RustTags: tech, rust, architectureFriendly reminder that the answer is “no”. You don’t want to just rewrite everything, it’s not just a syntactical translation, it’s a long project and at best you tackle critical components.https://bitfieldconsulting.com/posts/rewrite-in-rustProject Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28Tags: tech, java, type-systems, memory, performanceThis is just the beginning in a way, but it’ll be a game changer for Java. The value classes will allow for better memory density.https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valhalla-explained-how-aStop Naming Your Variables “Flag”: The Art of Boolean PrefixesTags: tech, programming, maintenanceGood advice on naming booleans. It’s worth repeating.https://thatamazingprogrammer.com/posts/stop-naming-your-variables-flag-the-art-of-boolean-prefixes/How to Write an Effective Software Design DocumentTags: tech, design, architecture, documentation, engineeringThis is a good reference on how to write design documents. It’s not as easy as it sounds sometimes, and this guide contains good tips.https://refactoringenglish.com/excerpts/write-an-effective-design-doc/How to stand against high temperaturesTags: life, climateObviously good advice and things we need to internalize now. Structural change is needed of course, but when the heat is here, better act properly.https://www.whateverthewindbrings.com/how-to-stand-against-high-temperatures/Bye for now!