Weeknotes 2026.35

Posted on So 30 August 2026 in Blog

The team behind the Race Across America announced that the race will pause in 2027. I am very curious to see what will happen in 2028. Will the race resume or was the 2026 edition the last one?

Tadej Pogačar had an accident at the Vuelta a España and could not continue the race. He already won a couple of stages and was a couple of minutes ahead of his rivals. One moment changed everything. It is a though year, when two of the best riders in the world couldn't finish a Grand Tour because of accidents.

Jabber/XMPP

Daniel Gultsch wrote an article about the differences in the world of instant messaging. What he thinks is a problem with messengers like Signal or Threema. And what is the big difference in the development process between XMPP and Matrix. As the developer of Conversations (XMPP client for Android), he has some opinions about it ;-)

Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

GDPR

Mat Duggan wrote some kind of love letter to GDPR. He explains GDPR and the Brussels Effect.

You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It

Omarchy

The controversial David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) has announced the launch of Omacom Foundation packed with $8 million. Like many things DHH does, it is a little bit of an ego show, because as usual, he knows everything better than everyone else. But it is impressive to collect that much money for a project started a year ago.

Omarchy distro gains serious backing

AI roundup

Otto Kekäläinen wrote an article about the difficulty of integrating AI into software engineering: The growing divide between AI hype and software engineering reality
It seems like Nvidia will buy Hugging Face: Nvidia Agrees to Buy Open Source AI Platform Hugging Face For $12.9 Billion
And an investigation of the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident was shared: Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

Jabber/XMPP

GDPR

Omarchy

AI roundup

Data breach ticker