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User Experience

Accessibility overlays: the 2025 criticisms explained

Accessibility overlays were sold as a magic fix for WCAG and the European EAA directive in one step. In 2025 lawsuits against them have grown and disabled users are speaking out more critically than ever. A look at why they fail and what to do instead.

Tools

Spotify’s Backstage fork: what changes for users

Spotify announced Backstage Plus, its own commercial offering built on top of the open Backstage project. The result is a de facto fork that raises uncomfortable questions about governance of company-donated CNCF projects. A look at the practical implications and what teams already running Backstage in production can do.

Technology

Post-quantum cryptography in TLS: real-world adoption

Post-quantum cryptography stopped being an academic topic once Cloudflare, Google, and Apple put ML-KEM hybrids into production. By 2025 it already covers the majority of real web traffic. A look at where adoption stands, where friction still shows up, and what to review in your own infrastructure.

Architecture

Model Context Protocol in 2025: from announcement to ecosystem

Model Context Protocol turns ten months old since Anthropic's announcement, and it is no longer just a proposal: hundreds of servers, cross-vendor implementations and a public registry now back it. A look at what has worked, what is still weak, and why 2025 marks the shift from curiosity to basic infrastructure.

Technology

Dragonfly: the modern cache inspired by Redis

Dragonfly lleva tres años como alternativa compatible con Redis, pero con arquitectura multihilo y sin fork para persistencia. En 2025 ya no es una curiosidad: hay despliegues serios que lo eligen por coste y latencia. Repaso de qué cambia y cuándo compensa mirarlo con calma.

Software Development

Astro 5: when content and applications converge

Astro 5 has spent nine months in production and has settled into a place of its own in the JavaScript world. Its bet on typed content and friction-free mixed rendering puts it halfway between Next.js and the static-site generators. A time-tested assessment.

Industry 4.0

Dark factory: robotics and automation today

The dark factory, with no human workers on shift, has been promised for years but is only now starting to multiply in earnest. The Chinese and Japanese cases show a mature model; in Europe and Spain the reality is different. An honest look at what works and what is still hype.

Methodologies

Carbon-aware computing: now the default behavior

Four years ago it was an academic curiosity. Today, scheduling workloads by grid carbon intensity is a built-in option in Kubernetes, in several cloud provider services, and in CI tooling. We look at what genuinely changed and what is still more promise than practice.

Technology

NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs: what changes for training

Los primeros racks GB200 NVL72 llevan meses en manos de los hiperescalares y ya empiezan a verse mediciones públicas. La generación Blackwell no es una mejora incremental sobre Hopper, sino un cambio en la forma de entrenar modelos grandes. Repasamos qué cambia y qué no.

Tools

Dokploy: lightweight deployment on top of Docker Swarm

Dokploy has become the most talked-about free alternative to Vercel and Render. It promises Docker Swarm simplicity without the weight of Kubernetes or dependence on a single vendor. We look at where it delivers and where the promise breaks down.