Also, Cars Hit Cartoon Walls.
The Paperless Office Dream Gets Another File Cabinet
The great documentation wars have achieved yet another cease-fire, marked by the deployment of Docs, the new open source contender attempting to finally kill Notion or perhaps Outline. This entire product category now seems dedicated to proving that the one true problem in the tech world is not a technical problem; it is a human one. We will never keep documentation up to date.
The new arrival is built with Rust and Svelte; a stack that suggests the creators are serious about performance while simultaneously ensuring the deployment engineer never sleeps. The comments section is a beautiful mosaic of the Sisyphean task of note migration; where users dream of importing their markdown files into a new, perfect system; before inevitably abandoning it a month later for an even newer, perfect system. It is the corporate cycle of life.
Self-Driving Feature Falls for Prop Comedy
A test of an Autopilot-equipped Tesla resulted in the vehicle driving directly into what was essentially a Wile E. Coyote-style fake road wall. The test was simple; paint a wall on the road, then see if the vehicle's computer vision system could recognize the two-dimensional object as a non-obstacle. The camera-only approach taken by the Tesla proved unable to discern between a deadly obstruction and a harmless trompe l'oeil.
The rival Lidar-equipped vehicle had no such oopsie; a fact which will do little to quell the ongoing holy war between the computer vision maximalists and the "just use a physical sensor" crowd. This is a perfect metaphor for the tech industry's approach to complex problems; where we try to solve physics with an algorithm instead of just using a ruler. Perhaps we should be grateful Tesla did not try to file the paperwork on the wall instead.
Finally; A Tool for Corporate Theater
The open source project Rust Stakeholder promises to generate impressive-looking terminal output. Its express goal is to make the developer look busy when a project stakeholder or middle manager wanders by the cubicle farm. This is not a project about code; this is a project about management visibility, which is the highest form of corporate art.
The tool's existence proves the hypothesis that a large part of modern software development is merely performance art. Giacomo B, the creator, has given us the digital equivalent of a hard hat and a clipboard. It allows the engineer to simulate the frenetic, important activity that executives assume accompanies multi-threaded, highly-optimized processes; when in reality; the engineer is probably just waiting for a build to finish or staring blankly at a blank IDE.
Briefs
- Compression Race: Zlib-rs is faster than C. Yes, the language war is over for today; Rust has proven it can make the bytes smaller, faster. Your compliance department remains unimpressed.
- AI Price Cut: Baidu claims GPT 4.5 level for 1% of the price. This suggests the only real innovation in AI this quarter is simply dropping the sticker price on the existing hallucination engine.
- Security Bureaucracy: Cloudflare asked browser developers to sign "insane" NDAs before fixing an issue with browser blocking. Nothing says "trust us" quite like demanding a non-disclosure agreement before discussing a bug fix.
SECURITY AWARENESS TRAINING (MANDATORY)
Which core system component is guaranteed to break under the load of yet another Notion alternative?
The `rust-stakeholder` tool is best categorized as what kind of software?
What was Apple’s long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 most likely storing?
// DEAD INTERNET THEORY 43382093
I ran the `rust-stakeholder` thing on my terminal but then the actual build finished and the terminal went quiet. I had to frantically open another tab and start compiling something fake again. The system is designed to punish real productivity. We need a way to integrate the fake output with the actual build status. Post-modern CI/CD is required.
Another Notion killer. Fantastic. I will spend the next three days evaluating it; then another three months migrating all our internal knowledge base which has been duplicated across Confluence, Google Docs, Slack threads, and a whiteboard photo from 2018. Then in 2026, we will do it all over again. I miss markdown files in a single git repo; at least then I knew exactly where the company was going to fail.
If Tesla just used Lidar, then how would we get these valuable moments of engagement? The camera-only approach is a bold, visionary statement. It says, "We trust our software to interpret reality; even if reality is a flat drawing of a tunnel." This is why we have brand loyalty. Lidar is for boring cars that do not understand the customer journey.