Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-37.Making Social Media SocialTags: tech, fediverse, social-media, communityInteresting approach. When friction to subscription is a good way to really build community.https://tante.cc/2026/09/10/making-social-media-social/Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on ‘Leave of Absence’Tags: tech, blog, wordpress, businessLooks like the drama continues. I wonder where this will land.https://www.404media.co/wordpress-automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-put-on-leave-of-absence/Doomscrolling ourselves to deathTags: tech, book, reading, tv, social-media, attention-economy, politics, historyThe argument presented is maybe a bit too mechanical for my taste. That said there’s indeed something to be said about the decline in literacy and its consequences on our societies.https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/doomscrolling-ourselves-to-deathTristan Buckmaster’s statement on the Navier-Stokes resolutionTags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, mathematics, ethics, scienceShows some insights into the kerfuffle around the Navier-Stokes recent resolution. The behavior of OpenAI in this affair is ludicrous. In my opinion this is showing research malpractice… Why care about the scientific method when you have a shot at good PR?https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdfThe function of LLM-based math “proofs”Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, mathematics, research, scienceIs it badly conducted research for PR purpose? Who would have expected anything different? I wish we’d fund real science instead…https://tante.cc/2026/09/07/the-function-of-llm-based-math-proofs/Soft-deprecating re.match()Tags: tech, api, pythonInteresting way to deal with deprecation in Python. Indeed sometimes it doesn’t hurt to keep the not so ideal old name… but you want to push user code to know they miss an opportunity in readability by using the old name.https://hugovk.dev/blog/2026/soft-deprecating-re.match/A quick overview of atomics in CTags: tech, c, multithreading, atomicsStill need to understand atomics and memory barrier? This is a neat primer.https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/09/a-quick-overview-of-atomics-in-c/Visualizing Rust’s Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In MemoryTags: tech, c++, rust, memory, type-systemsInteresting exploration of how static and dynamic dispatchs work behind the scene in Rust. The chosen tradeoffs are different than in C++ and that’s something to keep in mind.https://sofiabelen.github.io/projects/visualizing-rusts-vtables-how-dyn-trait-works-in-memory/My HTML BoilerplateTags: tech, web, htmlThere’s a lot of important metadata in HTML pages nowadays… and there could be more than proposed here.https://vale.rocks/posts/html-boilerplateThere’s No Limit to How Bad Code Can GetTags: tech, software, engineering, qualityGood point. The metaphors we use have obviously some limits. In the case of the “sinking ship” when used for software it doesn’t quite work as there’s no bottom…https://zachkehs.com/blog/theres_no_limit_to_how_bad_code_can_get/On Quality: What It Is and Why Products Get WorseTags: production, quality, craftsmanshipVery nice read about quality in general and why it’s really hard to define. It also explores how it can degrade over time in existing products.https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/on-qualityDegeneracy is a SymptomTags: history, economics, politicsOr why it’s stupid to judge people on their non virtuous behavior while at the same time fostering the structures which ensure that virtue does not pay. So indeed, some people read the odds properly and act accordingly…https://henryfudgeofficial.substack.com/p/degeneracy-is-a-symptomThe Last Person to Know the Dictator Is Screwed Is the DictatorTags: history, politicsBuild a good enough echo chamber and you won’t know you’re toast before it’s too late.https://thegrimhistorian.substack.com/p/the-last-person-to-know-the-dictatorWhen Death Was a ReliefTags: historySuch a wonderful species we are… not. Things can get really nasty when someone starts exploiting beliefs and gains some sort of power. And then, the blame game begins. Unfortunately it regularly happens.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=205swuI0JlYBye for now!