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The context An interesting challenge to tackle in the CI world is how to keep up with dependencies. How to stay up to date when your product requires hundreds or thousands of packages, tools, SDKs, and sometimes services that rely on each other. On one hand you could decide to always use the tip (latest), which puts you at risk of a bad surprise on a random Tuesday morning if the new version of a dependency suddenly introduced a breaking change. On the other hand, you could pin all the updates, and hope to never forget to update them manually. ...

🇬🇧 Please note that this article was translated from French using Duck AI, a privacy-friendly AI. The idea of a potential Great Replacement by Artificial Intelligence (AI) is entirely absent from public debate, just one year before the French presidential elections. Political representatives engage in clientelism by blaming all of society’s ills (insecurity, debt burden) on different population groups (immigrants, the wealthy), regardless of where they stand on the political spectrum. The current ambition is short-termist and focused on the next electoral deadline, or even backward-looking as with the endless rehashing of yet another pension reform… Anything but than crafting a long-term societal plan and a vision for the future. ...

🇬🇧 Howdy English speaker, please note that this article was translated from French using Duck AI, a privacy-friendly AI. Some Solutions (Part 2) After learning about the constant progress of surveillance and control of communications and information by numerous entities in part 1, here are some ideas to mitigate the consequences. They are sorted from the simplest to implement, with no particular effort, to the most complicated, which will require accepting some compromises in comfort. There is no need to overhaul all your habits at once; it is better to proceed step by step. Perfection does not exist, but it is always possible to improve gradually. ...

🇬🇧 Howdy English speaker, please note that this article was translated from French using Lumo, a privacy-friendly AI. The unchecked, centralized accumulation of citizen information creates the architecture for authoritarian rule. Just ask the former East Germans. This is why, in a democracy, it is the people who hold the right to privacy and the government which must operate in public. It cannot be the other way around.. (The Guardian, 30 janvier 2026) ...

In recent years I’ve spent more and more time trying to continuously optimize my daily routine. Fixing the pain points, and improving my productivity. At the end of the day, it’s all about freeing up more time and being able to focus more on what matters and what I like. As I was thinking about it, wrapping up 2022, I realized how aligned this life mindset is with my Automation engineering job’s principles. At the end of the day, my work is all about freeing up internal customers’ time so they can focus on where they provide the highest value (and of course by doing so, saving the company more money). ...