finxol
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🇫🇷🇬🇧 Software dev, student @ Université de Rennes | https://finxol.eu 🎓 President at https://fare-asso.fr 🥁 Drummer
this is a survey that's really worth taking > So while there's still a human in the loop, let's leave aside libraries and frameworks and just check in: how are you doing, really?
State of Devs 2026
Take the State of Devs survey
survey.devographics.com
Besides the flood of AI spam, what's your biggest frustration with GitHub or working in OSS these days? Just dump them here like if I was your therapist.
Findings from this week's UN report on AI vs climate: 🌿 80-90% is not in training models, but in day-to-day use. 🌿 Generating an image is 1450⨉ more energy intensive than text, generating video much worse. 🌿 We need to monitor water and land footprint, as well as carbon. unu.edu/inweh/news/e...
Rising Emissions, Depleting Water and Vanishing Land—UN Scientists: AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions
By 2030, AI's water use will match the needs of 1.3 billion people while its power use triples that of 650 million, UN University investigation warns
unu.edu
Just launched at Public Spaces in Amsterdam, The European Social Stack Open Declaration! A set of common principles agreed by complementary technology leaders 🫶 Read the declaration, add your signature, and share: european.social #EUSocialStack #Europe
first experience hooking up an llm with mcp running automatically on a webhook. www.openstatus.dev/blog/agent-w... will probably write some more about the experience and just ai in general later on my personal blog (should find the time next week, no promises)
How we built an agent webhook for our status pages
A build log: wiring an AI agent to openstatus webhooks so it writes the status page report itself, and the things that bit me along the way.
openstatus.dev
Introduce yourself with ten bands you’ve seen live: Gogo Penguin Nick Mulvey Tom Odell Matmatah Faada Freddy Franz Ferdinand Archive Mac&Wester Manu Katché Carlos Núñez
Sarah Drasner@sarahedo.bsky.social · 2mo agoIntroduce yourself with ten bands you’ve seen live: Jurassic 5 Portishead Interpol A Tribe Called Quest Green Day Cat Power Toro y Moi Weezer Arcade Fire Janelle Monae
So… did they ever say what happened when a bunch of people “left” Deno a few weeks/months back??
Deno@deno.land · 3mo agoDeno 2.8 is released! - 6 new subcommands - defaulting to "npm:" - Node.js api compat: 42% → 74% - import defer - 3.6× faster cold npm installs - Network debugging in Chrome DevTools - TypeScript 6 - catalog: support - Cross-platform npm installs - deno install --prod
Well it seems my first feature for @openstatus.dev is already useful! www.openstatus.dev/status/anthr...
This needs to stop. It’s trivial to encrypt things and if outlawed we’ll lose privacy while criminals can still do it reclaimthenet.org/france-moves...
France Moves to Break Encrypted Messaging
France's parliament just endorsed the one idea every cryptographer on earth has already debunked and they're calling it a compromise.
reclaimthenet.org
wtf is up with the ios screenshot tool?? i can’t crop screenshots, it only resizes them 😭
My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.
If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...
What's My JND? 0.0028 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
What's My JND?
Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?
keithcirkel.co.uk
Jaydip Sanghani@jaydip.me · 5mo agoi got 0.0062, let's see what's yours? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
society has solved global warming by creating new, more pressing concerns
“A deep grief about how the technology industry has become so abhorrently hostile to the human experience that it has inadvertently distracted me from real and true humanity held deep within art and music;” Beautifully well written piece on the direction the tech industry is taking.
⭑ salma@whitep4nth3r.com · 5mo agoI wrote about some things I'm struggling with in the technology industry, preceded by an appreciation for folk music.
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
Amy Hoy@amyhoy.bsky.social · 5mo agoPost a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
I’ve successfully switched my non-tech savvy almost-60yo mum to linux on her daily use laptop, ama
> If you work in OSS, consider adding your voice. The feedback period ends February 3, 2026 2 days left. Please take some time and provide feedback if you have opinions or ideas for the EU. ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...
patak@patak.cat · 7mo agoGood read. A submission to the European Commission's call for evidence on Towards European Open Digital Ecosystems (importance of OSS for EU tech sovereignty, security and competitiveness). It ends with: > If you work in OSS, consider adding your voice. The feedback period ends February 3, 2026.
@tangled.org can't seem to be able to login right now.. I'm getting a 500 error on the POST request, with the error "auth request failed: PAR request failed (HTTP 400): invalid_client" I'm logging in as usual with my atproto handle. ublock is deactivated.
I've just played around on my blog to add 2 shiny new things: `grid-lanes` and bluesky post integration! finxol.io As always, it's when I have other things I'm supposed to be doing, but here we are. (I might need to update this OG image some time, it's not very useful or pretty currently)
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