UPDATED Request to the European Commission to adhere to its own guidances - TDF Community Blog
The European Commission has accepted our request, and starting from today – Friday March 6 – has added the Open Document Format ODS version of the spreadsheet to be used to provide the feedback. We are grateful to the people working at DG CONNECT, the Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, for responding to our request within 24 hours. At this point, the rest of this message is no longer relevant, and the call for action is no longer necessary. ARCHIVED MESSAGE The European Commission has spent years advocating for open standards, vendor neutrality, and digital sovereignty. The European Interoperability Framework explicitly recommends open formats for public sector digital services. The EU’s own Open Source Software Strategy calls for reducing dependency on proprietary technologies, and the Cyber Resilience Act itself is designed to address systemic risks from unaccountable technology dependencies. On March 3rd, 2026, the European Commission published a request for feedback on to the guidances to be provided in relation to the CRA, which must be provided through the linked spreadsheet in .xlsx format, a proprietary format that makes interoperability extremely difficult due to its ever changing and undocumented features. This is not a minor procedural oversight.
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The majority of us are a bunch of self taught people with rather spotty knowledge and that's fine! Kilian (also self taught) is here to share some of the computer science fundamentals you probably are missing with the aim to improve your code in the long term.
Importing vs fetching JSON
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Design Systems Q&A
I recently had the pleasure of doing a Q&A session with Molly Helmuth's Design System Bootcamp cohort. The questions were great and varied, so I asked Molly if she'd be alright if I shared my answers with you all. Thankfully, Molly is awesome and agreed to let me share here. Be sure to check out
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🛑 Stop resizing your browser: improve testing for responsiveness
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Why paying down tech debt matters
Tech debt is all those hot fixes and hacks and spaghetti code you quickly pushed into production for the sake of hitting a launch deadline.
On most teams that I’ve worked on or advised as a consultant, tech debt is shipped with a promise that it will be “fixed after launch.”
In reality, what often happens is the next big thing gets prioritized, paying off tech debt gets pushed down in priority, and eventually forgotten about entirely.
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