Predictions for 2025

You’re blocked, because it is extremely uncivil to run Scrapy against other people’s sites at the rate you did this morning. Happy 2025, and please don’t do it again. Also, why use GCP for this? It’s not like you’re going to get any useful data out of it.

Well, almost, but not quite. Max Woolf’s exploration of iterative code improvement using LLMs is a fascinating dive into the potential and pitfalls of AI-assisted programming. While the results show significant performance gains, the journey reveals a common theme: the balance between optimization and overengineering. As the code evolves, it...

There’s witch hunts, and there’s discussions about online privacy. It’s true that Apple keeps changing the Photos UX in… unfathomable ways, and also that they keep dropping the ball with iCloud features when what most people really want is a) a no-fuss user experience and b) a set of clearly labeled options that explain what is being sent to the...

WINE Is Not an Emulator. It’s an application loader and a set of runtimes that allow you to run COFF Windows binaries in Linux (or other Intel-based UNIX variants, but with lesser success), without performing any CPU emulation. What it “emulates” is the runtime environment for Windows applications by mapping Windows system calls to its own. So,...

The “not (quite) ready for primetime” tag is eminently applicable here. As someone who logs in to my corporate environment daily (sometimes more than once) using passkeys, I can certainly say that they are borderline usable in very specific contexts, but a complete mess where it regards interoperability. For instance, I can’t get my...