mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06https://wingolog.org | a work in progress | niche content | truthiness is couthiness
my favorite software complexity metric: the number of data structures with "context" or "environment" in their name
git has made us all come out as bisectual
as a crew member of spaceship earth i would like to wish a very fuck you very much to nationalists of all varieties
i have told this story before, but. i did physics with christina koch at university; once while working on an assignment she mentioned wanting to be an astronaut.
in my recollection i thought "nobody ever gets to be an astronaut"; i didn't say it tho. anyway hoo boy was i wrong, and an asshole to boot; hopefully the thought did not escape containment
i was thinking earlier today that we in the nerdery computery space are very lucky to have so many wonderful trans people among us, just doing your thing. really lovely to see people really getting their gender on
steel train bridge on rollers to allow for expansion
well. after implementing weak maps and refs, wastrel compilation of the hoot repl seems to work. some trimming needed to make backtraces not show frames that are part of the implementation, and polish as always, but i gasped audibly when it first gave me a prompt!
new bloggery: the value of a performance oracle https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/04/07/the-value-of-a-performance-oracle
honestly everyone over 35 needs someone in their life to let them know if they post cringe
new bloggery: it's alive, it's alive! ~~ https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/04/09/wastrel-milestone-full-hoot-support-with-generational-gc-as-a-treat
"At a conference talk I watched a speaker present a quote and article attributed to me which never existed" omg https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess
i got "wastrel foo.wasm" working, for a wasm file produced by the hoot scheme compiler :) wheee
very amused to find that after closing a few gigabytes of buffer in my emacs, my lizard brain was expecting to hear the grinding of a hard drive as swap sloshed about
RE: @blackerby@mastodon.social
incredible to find myself nodding along to a piece written for the saudi royal house
ex-boxing: neither nan nor nun @kannanvijayan@medium.com
(via @dysfun@social.treehouse.systems)
well, what the hell, artemis seems to be off. godspeed, you lunatics
i keep finding horrors
parsing: 1%
callgraph ipa passes: 99%
lto stream output: 1%
someone help my -flto -O1 compiler budget, my other cores are starving,,
banlieue has too many vowels. good night
it is still weird to me that there are swiss army pocketknives for sale in the geneva airport, right at the gate
zomg a neighbor loaned my 7yo tintin au congo and my kid read it; europe is fine and all but this shit would not fly in the usa i grew up in
flavor of devrel which is just an endless sequence of telling people your system is fast because of optimized manual memory management and telling them the same because of an optimized garbage collector
am going to https://wasm.io on thursday and friday, looking forward to the hallway track!
it occurs to me that most of my readers are unfamiliar with kehlog albran's "the profit". ur welcome http://rsidd.online.fr/profit/profit.html
