I just published "A Practical Guide to Application Metrics: Where to Put Your Instrumentation" 📊 Learn where to instrument your apps with 5 essential metric types and real-world patterns that actually help during on-call incidents. pierrezemb.fr/posts/practi...

"This year we are slightly changing the way we make the choices of which devrooms we select. [...] As an example, we want some more weird and wonderful Plan9 ecosystem devrooms." 💚 fosdem.org/2026/news/20...

I will be at AI Engineer Paris tomorrow afternoon, hosting Discovery Track 1. Come say hi at the afterparty!

We (Finegrain) trained a rank 8 Flux Kontext LoRA to place objects in scene images. Weights: huggingface.co/finegrain/fi... Demo space: huggingface.co/spaces/fineg... Blog post: blog.finegrain.ai/posts/produc...

They are coming. toddlerbot.github.io

Great article thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeati...

Heureuse d’annoncer mon nouveau poste de professeure en psychologie du numérique ! Encore des années à étudier vos likes, vos scrolls et vos nuits volées par les écrans… mais c’est pour la science.

Something that has not changed in 15 years of Machine Learning: people still can't figure out conventions. For instance, passing timesteps in [0, 1], [0, 999] increasing and decreasing in the *same* diffusion codebase (all with the same type and argument name)...

<rant> I get that you want to write your website from scratch and keep it lightweight. I really do! I do that too! But *please* add a feed of any kind! Atom, RSS, JSON Feed... Anything is fine, just have one. There's so much good content out there I'm sad not being able to subscribe too. </rant>

Two new posts today (yes, I am on holiday!) - A short list of strong beliefs blog.separateconcerns.com/2025-08-24-b... - A "what work I want" post inspired by Sean Goedecke blog.separateconcerns.com/2025-08-24-w...

Prôner des vérifications d’accès aux réseaux sociaux avant 15 ans, attention à ce qu’on souhaite ... Bluesky est indisponible dans l’état du Mississippi car il n’a pas les moyens de mettre en place la vérification d’âge exigée et dénonce un loi liberticide. Voilà quand ce n’est pas proportionné.

One more "Thoughts & Links" blog post: blog.separateconcerns.com/2025-08-21-t...

If you want to listen to *actual* experts talk about what language models can do in a way mostly accessible to the general public, this is a great video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGKN...

Trains are the best place to read papers 😅

Just blogged: How I use AI coding tools (in summer 2025) blog.separateconcerns.com/2025-08-08-a...

Everyone is looking at gpt-oss, I'm looking at Genie 3...

The day I got custom table legs, and what it taught me about support (by Julien Danjou) julien.danjou.info/p/the-day-i-...

ln(😅) = 💧ln(😄)

Dunning–Kruger was always a thing in programming, but with AI agents we've reached a whole new level...

Brace yourself, Open Source slop is coming. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4456...

The same way we sometimes wish we could talk to a human instead of filling a broken form, we will soon wish there was an app instead of a stupid AI bot. But that will be the exception, not the norm. Most of the time the new paradigm will be better.

Ca alors, mais qui aurait pu prévoir. La surprise est la plus totale. Encore et toujours ce problème de méthode du législateur 🇫🇷 (et de ses relais administratifs) qui depuis 2 législatures s'auto-persuade qu'on peut prendre des libertés avec le droit de l'Union quand la finalité est légitime.

"Je suis créateur. Je vole constamment le travail des autres. C'est la nature de la création. [...] Le problème n'est pas le consentement. [C'est] la propriété et la capacité de certains acteurs de capturer cette propriété et d'empêcher les autres d'en jouir." www.la-grange.net/2025/06/04/c...

> Rob Pike famously described Go as suitable for developers who aren't equipped to handle a complex language. Substitute “developers” with “agents,” and it perfectly captures why Go's simplicity benefits agentic coding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/12/ag...

Very interesting comment mastodon.cloud/@karlcow/114... I'm the same generation, and it's true. We're the Napster generation, we're the Aaron Swartz generation. If we can take copyright down, we probably will.

#LuaLang plugins coming to libinput. who-t.blogspot.com/2025/05/libi...

Microsoft open-sources a CLI text editor: 🤷 Microsoft open-sources Copilot in VS code: 🤗 Microsoft open-sources WSL: 🤯

@salayanara.bsky.social Prête ? 😁

The 2010s saw a messy explosion of new software tools and libraries. [...] The 2020’s dawned with complexity burnout. [...] We were so baffled by the jungle we grew that we invented languages like Go. www.jeremykun.com/shortform/20...

Give away ! Pour tenter de gagner ce magnifique couteau de cuisine forgé Lame en 135cr3 Manche en amarante et ébène noir ( Valeur 270€ ) Reblousque✅ Follow✅ Gagnant tiré au sort samedi 12h !

Incredible post. Must-read if you work with images or any continuous modality.

Redis is open source again: antirez.com/news/151

Looks like Redis is fast (but in French) @antirez.bsky.social :)

A bit surprised that many startups contacting me for "AI" jobs have a full JavaScript tech stack🤔 I mean, for most things I am stack-agnostic, but if you really do "AI" (i.e. train and run your models) today you probably use Python and/or statically compiled languages.

@baldurbjarnason.com Just so you know, links to I am Uncluttered (Yellow) and Bad Writing on payhip.com/b/UwFnP point to localhost:8080

www.seangoedecke.com/breaking-rul... Very important point to learn mid-career (or, if you're me, very early on). The caveat is, you *will* take it too far. Do it anyway, you need to learn exactly the right balance and nobody will teach you.

"a significant portion of the value that’s created by open source is precisely because it costs $0" alexgaynor.net/2025/apr/08/...

Beautiful. tailscale.com/blog/plan9-p...

Web: "You get 500 requests per second? Yeah, whatever, just get a VPS and use SQLite..." AI: "You get 500 requests per second? Well, you're looking at a 7 figures infra bill, let me get you in touch with a SVP at an hyperscaler..."

This. nmn.gl/blog/dangers... I don't vibe code for now, mostly for that reason. I only use AI as a better auto-complete and to review my code.

#plakar 1.0.1-beta.13 is out! Includes a mitigation for the attack + cool features: checkpointing, better S3, timeline UI, FTP exporter… Security folks, your feedback is welcome! plakar.io/articles/202...

We just pushed a Hugging Face space to demonstrate a fun model we trained: huggingface.co/spaces/fineg...

"for the first time in human history, our brain is the bottleneck. " from "A Society That Lost Focus", published exactly one year ago. https://ploum.net/2024-03-18-lost-focus.html and on #gemini : gemini://ploum.net/2024-03-18-lost-focus.gmi

Mikael covering Céline Dion... Obligatory @zwindler.fr mention 😆 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMmu...

Developers: "AI will replace us! 😱" AI: forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-tol...

This is one of the issues I have with libraries written in Rust: mastodon.social/@hyc/1141287... I agree with Howard, a library should never crash its host application. I am all for "let it crash" but panics must be *recoverable* otherwise it does not work. This is not a problem for CLI tools.

Yet another proposed law trying to forbid e2e encryption in France. It's tiring. www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/dossi...

I think we are *primarily* pattern-matching machines. But an important capacity we develop as young children is learning by asking "Why?" Machine learning models don't do that yet, even though with reasoning they got a little closer.

New blog post about how I see the evolution of AI: blog.separateconcerns.com/2025-02-26-a...