Andy Wingo

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2024-09-10 18:24:52

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@npub1c35…9pmh same same https://mastodon.social/@wingo/112865738302308842

2024-09-10 13:20:36

such a delightful article! https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/findloop/

2024-09-08 08:50:55

cpython traumatises people to the extent that they start to say things like “i like the gil, actually” and “main subinterpreter” and “the pickle solution” https://lwn.net/Articles/987238/

2024-08-25 20:30:35

new bloggery: things i learned recently from hacking on whippet https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/08/25/whippet-update-faster-evacuation-eager-sweeping-of-empty-blocks

2024-08-24 16:51:12

bloomberg does not appear to have data on eur/tooth fx markets

2024-08-19 15:10:11

webkit enabled wasm/gc by default, wheeee https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/31854

2024-08-02 14:25:37

schemers! scheme ‘24 in milan, sat 7 september! your truly is keynoting about scheme on wasm!!! come meet and converse! combine with a trip to icfp, early registration closes tomorrow! https://icfp24.sigplan.org/home/scheme-2024

2024-07-24 09:20:44

new bloggery, in which we catch up with whippet: on funding, on features, and on the future. fun for the whole family!
https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/07/24/whippet-progress-update-funding-features-future

2024-07-22 09:29:04

new bloggery: finalizers, guardians, phantom references, et cetera https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/07/22/finalizers-guardians-phantom-references-et-cetera

2024-07-22 08:04:25

just saw a 32-year-old code comment. "the tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living" etc etc etc

2024-07-16 19:00:17

parce que ils sont fish

2024-07-10 19:19:46

good evening. what are we cancelling tonight

2024-07-10 06:17:16

lemme and femme should fight for which pronunciation to use for both

2024-07-07 12:25:46

footnotes are unnecessary on the web: for references, hyperlinks suffice, and anything else should either be in the main text or left out #spicysunday #1toot1take #pinions

2024-06-30 07:43:14

these coming weeks are going to be pretty dire for many people in france. i hope we make it out the other side.

2024-06-26 07:50:40

another fun ascii diagram, somewhat startling in the amount of virtual memory this reserves https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:v8/src/sandbox/sandbox.h;l=45-55 /cc @npub1f3n…e887
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2024-06-25 13:58:23

oh honey
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2024-06-24 20:00:34

there is a funny thing going around about a developer insisting that software work with node 4 instead of 6 but just think how far we could take this https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Unsupported-Platforms.html

2024-06-24 06:59:34

good morning. markdown is better to read and write than org-mode and everything that is based on emacs outline-mode would be better if somehow rewritten on top of markdown

2024-06-21 18:29:13

when i go out sailing i always take a whole box of kleenex because i am not a one tissue boater

2024-06-19 08:08:51

google c++ style guide with a spicy opinion 🌶️
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/642/260/979/336/596/original/dc510ebf1ef1c716.png

2024-06-19 07:01:45

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to be clear. this is a subtoot of https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-06/msg00192.html

2024-06-19 06:58:33

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anyway if i infiltrated an enemy organization, i would start arguments about how consensus positions of the organization are actually in contradiction to its values. "we have a real problem here and we need to take it seriously" etc

2024-06-19 06:55:33

i keep seeing things i don't like. halp https://mastodon.social/@wingo/112014093890965130

2024-06-18 19:44:48

rest is peace, noam chomsky, humanist, light of justice in this world ~~ i wish i believed in an afterlife but i don’t think you did either https://jacobin.com/2024/06/noam-chomsky-obituary-media-theory-elites

2024-06-11 09:13:38

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@npub1w66…rc58 the only peter i read is landin: `class the_next { 700 = programming => languages }`

2024-06-11 07:52:55

i had no idea that `class C { 0 = 1 }` was valid js https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1901166#c6

2024-06-09 11:56:05

turbidite would make a great insult. fucking turbs, choke on a turbodite, son of a turbodite, etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbidite

2024-06-06 07:08:08

a man wearing high viz came in the train carrying a brompton and is currently shopping for other bromptons on his phone #brompton

2024-06-04 07:40:45

the year is 3024. when sending a message through subspace, it is customary to mumble a prayer to the ancestors: "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

2024-06-03 07:06:34

this thread is a great example of the dangers that users pose to open source projects https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-deprecate-ofast/78687/25

2024-05-29 07:17:28

why do people play dungeon crawlers when gdb is right there

2024-05-28 08:32:20

smoking is a dirty habit but also it is funny when a construction worker throws a butt in the concrete he is pouring

2024-05-28 07:38:19

icymi, some recent hollering about the hoot scheme-to-wasm compiler over the last couple weeks:
1. https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/05/16/on-hoot-on-boot
2. https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/05/22/growing-a-bootie
3. https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/05/24/hoots-wasm-toolkit
4. https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/05/27/cps-in-hoot

2024-05-26 19:03:16

bear with me but i broke down and read the man or bear article everyone has been sharing and it really is lovely, the down-to-earth text punctuated with the author's photos that exude joy and contentedness; a+ content https://bikepacking.com/plog/man-or-bear-debate/

2024-05-24 10:38:38

new bloggery, on the wasm toolchain implemented in hoot: https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/05/24/hoots-wasm-toolkit

2024-05-24 08:44:38

sometimes the problem is just ordinary intelligence
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/495/183/416/408/733/original/d62d9defd4923c15.png

2024-05-22 08:19:15

new bloggery, on growing a bootie, in a lexical sense https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/05/22/growing-a-bootie

2024-05-22 06:47:29

graphviz: i can output in any format: svg, png, x11, whatever!
also graphviz: the only unit of size i know of is the inch

2024-05-16 20:02:07

new bloggery: on hoot, on boot https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/05/16/on-hoot-on-boot

2024-05-13 13:03:57

new bloggery: partitioning pitfalls for generational collectors
https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/05/13/partitioning-pitfalls-for-generational-collectors

2024-04-26 20:04:49

as a non-rustacean i am happy for rust’s success but am also pleased for the teacher’s pet to be taken down a notch
https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/

2024-04-23 08:37:37

fascinating look into the guts of the publishing industry https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books

2024-04-22 20:05:58

#wikifinds
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2024-04-16 12:26:25

risible lack of detail. if there were something there there, it would be front and center https://openssf.org/blog/2024/04/15/open-source-security-openssf-and-openjs-foundations-issue-alert-for-social-engineering-takeovers-of-open-source-projects/

2024-04-14 20:28:25

what the hell https://sqlite.org/codeofethics.html

2024-04-11 11:09:17

it occurs to me that adding features to a garbage collector is an excellent way to jia tan a software project. never enough gc features, all the nice features are really gnarly to review, bugs are very subtle and cross-cutting / high-power

2024-04-04 14:02:21

there is a digger making a giant hole in front of my house. he has uncovered an underground grotto (100-year-old rainwater infiltration well) and some pretty dubious sewer plumbing. how am i supposed to focus in this environment

2024-04-02 10:05:47

this logo. who is going to tell them https://circle.gnome.org/

2024-04-02 07:59:46

via @npub1enw…y3vd, the c++ iceberg: https://fouronnes.github.io/cppiceberg/

2024-04-02 07:27:59

in northern namibia it is considered good manners to taste a glass before handing it to someone, to show it is not poison. in the same way i am grateful to fedora rawhide and debian unstable people for tasting the tarballs before the rest of us

2024-03-30 18:36:12

i agree with everyone that this xz vuln confirms the opinions i had already #vindicated

2024-03-27 14:03:45

i have been developing on (gnu/)linux for, um, a long time now, and i just now learned about /usr/bin/env -S https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/env-invocation.html#g_t_002dS_002f_002d_002dsplit_002dstring-usage-in-scripts

2024-03-26 14:02:37

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@npub19am…qjn6 omg i had no idea there was an ordering constraint!

2024-03-26 13:40:08

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@npub19am…qjn6 the need to run depot_tools is what brings in quite a number of these deps, which afaics ungoogled-chromium manages to avoid

2024-03-26 11:52:19

new bloggery: gnarly notes on guix and v8 https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/03/26/hacking-v8-with-guix-bis

2024-03-20 09:53:02

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@npub1sys…ckr3 big same!!!!

2024-02-28 20:18:26

5yo made an invention: le sac à prouts. « it’s a bag full of prouts [farts] and you can let one out when you need to »

2024-02-23 21:02:28

gosh. what a wonderful color picker https://oklch.com/#70,0.155,132.67,100

2024-02-22 18:07:29

spritely’s hoot is actually turning into a nice scheme system. fun to see

2024-02-22 08:16:39

a "safe c" compiler and run-time by filip pizlo: https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge/blob/deluge/Manifesto.md

2024-02-16 10:31:49

notes on the framework 13 AMD laptop ~~ https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/02/16/guix-on-the-framework-13-amd

2024-02-15 09:32:45

thanks to a grant from nlnet / ngi zero core, i get to carve out some work time later this year to hack on the whippet garbage collector! more on this when i find how to schedule it, but i am really looking forward to the hack. https://nlnet.nl/project/Whippet/

2024-02-12 21:29:15

the more i work on garbage collectors, the less i want to use C libraries or whatever from GC languages; there are just too many pitfalls around finalization

2024-02-05 08:18:32

should you happen to be in the vicinity of the lovely lacustral lausanne, i have a talk this thursday about compiling to wasm/gc: https://memento.epfl.ch/event/a-new-hope-compiling-managed-languages-to-webassem/

2024-02-02 05:32:51

in bed for last 36h with chills and aches, but no fever, and fine now i think. gonna call it scurvy to elicit sympathy

2024-01-30 14:39:36

what in the fresh hell is this, wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F
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2024-01-30 08:30:05

someone thought that getting richard stallman to email me would allow me to allocate time to a guile bug. (1) that is not how this works (2) you could have chosen literally any other intermediary and it would be more effective

2024-01-28 20:53:07

just because babies can’t read doesn’t mean that words can go in any order
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2024-01-20 12:26:40

i would like to see a heat map of the world, measuring percentage of aborted page loads / navigations: when the user gives up or the server times out

2024-01-18 23:16:55

new bloggery, in which your protagonist leans into the cheese https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/01/18/nombrilliant-actually

2024-01-12 19:22:41

there are few more embarrassing things to call oneself than « full-stack engineer »

2024-01-11 14:11:04

a tiny tale of gnarly names https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/01/11/micro-macro-story-time

2024-01-08 14:05:38

what is it with the "webassembly is just a rehashed jvm" people -- did they all eat a bad burrito in 2002 or something. is the CDC aware of this situation

2024-01-08 11:46:06

new spicy blogging: missing the point of webassembly https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/01/08/missing-the-point-of-webassembly

2024-01-06 19:01:25

just did my part in fighting inflation by throwing away (!) a couple american pennies

2024-01-05 20:45:47

in which your protagonist passes another digital kidney stone: new bloggery on whole-program compilation of a set of scheme modules https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/01/05/scheme-modules-vs-whole-program-compilation-fight

2024-01-04 08:22:11

16 months ago i floated an idea to "compile" docker images to webassembly (https://wingolog.org/archives/2022/09/01/new-month-new-brainworm). in what must be a clear case of narrative logicogenesis this is now a thing: https://github.com/ktock/container2wasm

2024-01-03 09:55:40

the https://frame.work 13 laptop seems like a pretty decent next work laptop: you can get 64g mem, 4T SSD; only downsides i see are lack of on-site servicing and a less-than-retina screen

2024-01-02 10:04:05

getting older is just a continuous process of eyebrows getting weirder

2023-12-29 18:51:29

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@npub1scr…teus if there is a way to read without a paywall, please do share that :)

2023-12-20 07:28:43

a dark night for fraternité in france 😭😭😭

2023-12-19 07:35:20

typography is my passion
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/605/928/139/183/616/original/4d3850eacdc08043.png

2023-12-18 16:03:42

thinking about starting a new programming paradigm in 2024. « dendritic development » maybe. a lazy paradigm, whose axioms get made up as needed. mvp is « what is your dendritic strategy going forward? »

2023-12-15 17:23:30

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@npub1upk…tcwy a funny thing about git is that when you first visit a repo, you don't know what kind it is, because tools don't eagerly categorize repos as "merge-parties" or "squash only" + are there release branches + are there feature branches... we don't even have a common vocabulary

2023-12-05 11:39:47

new blog post, in which i redesign my web site for the first time in 20 years https://wingolog.org/archives/2023/12/05/colophonwards

2023-11-28 18:42:07

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@npub1w66…rc58 imagine the thing i was really procrastinating about then ;)

2023-11-28 16:08:52

today i procrastinated so hard i called 3 insurance companies on the phone

2023-11-19 16:30:27

cursèd knowledge, via a primary school teacher in geneva: rolex makes watches for kids

2023-11-17 09:42:34

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@npub19am…qjn6 happy to try :) though i don't know why would this work if `-foptimize-sibling-calls` didn't do its thing

2023-11-17 08:22:27

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@npub19am…qjn6 yes. does not work as expected.

2023-11-16 21:12:56

new bloggery, in which we talk types, tags, tailcalls, and tstandard tlibraries ~~ https://wingolog.org/archives/2023/11/16/a-whiff-of-whiffle

2023-11-13 11:15:34

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@npub19am…qjn6 maybe they will fix the fibers + threads bug 😅

2023-10-31 08:29:09

good morning
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2023-10-19 10:35:00

new bloggery: "requiem for a stringref", on the winding path to first-class support for reference-typed strings in webassembly https://wingolog.org/archives/2023/10/19/requiem-for-a-stringref

2023-10-17 11:15:33

2nd edition gc handbook arrived today. shit just got real
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/250/068/591/445/414/original/db72ef312e069dce.jpeg

2023-10-12 20:22:28

“who is the depressed bread on german kid’s tv?”
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2023-10-12 14:46:50

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@npub1zgl…rqd7 not recorded fwiw

2023-10-12 12:53:38

slides from my update talk on our scheme -> wasm/gc compiler at the wasm @ munich standards group meeting ~~ https://wingolog.org/pub/wasm-cg-2023-10-scheme-slides.pdf (13 MB)

2023-10-12 06:47:13

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@npub1zgl…rqd7 see call/cc definition in (hoot prelude)