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  [internal monologue] - I should check the AppStore rankings. - you know it’s pointless, and meaningless as well, right? - yeah, still… … I’m sorry what?

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  Every biker knows it, after some time: the speed of your bike doesn’t count, it’s how well she can brake that matters. The main limiting factor is whether you can stop, not how you accelerate. Likewise, the main limiting factor on computer backups is your retrieval solution. It doesn’t matter how many versions you saved if you cannot access them *easily*. And the same with coding: it’s not how fast you write code that matters, it’s how long it takes to debug.

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  Light reading for this afternoon: Evaluating Student Evaluations of Teaching: a Review of Measurement and Equity Bias in SETs and Recommendations for Ethical Reform » (Journal of Academic Ethics, 2021). "A powerful consideration is that women and men appear to be evaluated—by students of both genders—through the lens of gender stereotypes" "Students prefer professors to have masculine traits and penalize women professors when they fail to conform to gender stereotype...

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  I'm still trying to push the message: "what you're trying to ban is *generative artificial intelligence*, but banning *artificial intelligence* would also ban modern spellcheckers", but that feels like "the creature name is *Frankenstein's monster*, not *Frankenstein*." A losing battle. Maybe lost.

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  Big number release for a-Shell, my local iOS terminal: version 2.0.0 is out! The terminal rendering system switches to SwiftTerm by @Migueldeicaza: much faster, more responsive, and also supports Korean, Vietnamese and Braille keyboard inputs. Better VoiceOvers support too, better autocomplete, multi-arrow buttons…

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  After 40 years of moral panics from the adults about academic decline, we now have actual academic decline, but no-one is willing to panic about it, except the students: https://www.concordmonitor.com/2026/04/18/high-school-ai-use-crisis/

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  Aujourd'hui, deux rapports fascinants chez ces dangereux révolutionnaires de la Cour des Comptes : - sur la trésorerie des universités : https://www.ccomptes.fr/fr/publications/la-tresorerie-des-universites-et-des-etablissements-publics-de-recherche - sur les regroupements d'établissements : https://www.ccomptes.fr/fr/publications/les-regroupements-detablissements-denseignement-superieur-et-de-recherche-premier

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  Hommage à Séverine Erhel : une collègue engagée nous quitte brutalement. https://bretagne.sgen-cfdt.fr/actu/une-collegue-engagee-nous-quitte-brutalement-hommage-a-severine-erhel/

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  Perles du Sénat. Le ministre de l'ESRE : « je veux rappeler (...) qu'il n'y a là aucune discrimination politique [dans les refus d'embauche en ZRR]. La preuve en est que l'immense majorité des ZRR concerne les sciences dites dures, en particulier les technologies. » https://www.senat.fr/questions/base/2025/qSEQ25060634S.html Nous sommes rassurés, les sciences dures sont donc, apparemment, incapables d'avoir un impact politique.