Andy Wingo

https://wingolog.org | a work in progress | niche content | truthiness is couthiness

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2026-07-27 06:10:45 UTC

countdown to "datacenters in space" declaring victory, because earth is in space

2026-07-02 07:24:51 UTC

it occurs to me that i have never built anything that requires an emergency self-destruct capability.
this invokes a whole set of odd feelings: relief, wistfulness, envy

2026-07-01 10:32:13 UTC

how often do you think about surface integrals and flux

2026-06-29 08:40:47 UTC

can't help getting astrology × audiophile vibes from llm enthusiasts: "oh no honey you can't use opus 4.8, it's so nerfed, try glm-5.2 or the codex 5.5, they have a warm gemini sound, very well rounded on details and tone. but don't use google's gemini models, they are really leos, they have good treble response but you can't trust their mid-range"

2026-06-28 15:46:26 UTC

interesting programming language implementation technique https://github.com/mnapoli/vibephp
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/828/509/307/267/648/original/93daaf4d4802f3c2.png

2026-06-26 14:44:06 UTC

"load-bearing" was nice as an occasional adjective but apparently it belongs to claude now

2026-06-02 07:24:51 UTC

ok here is a niche compilers × functional programming question: what are peoples' favorite *immutable* intermediate representations to work with? i.e. those that allow transformations to be expressed as functions from IR to IR

2026-05-29 14:20:45 UTC

building electron is really easy, ninja has a nice status bar that lets you know how long it will take. it says 29 minutes, and it will say that until the build is done a couple hours later

2026-05-21 10:20:07 UTC

javascript quiz. given these three inputs:
> (function*(){(function yield(){})})
> (async function(){(function await(){})})
> (async function(){(class await {})})()

2026-05-16 15:45:29 UTC

how do we feel about “imaginary” as a noun

2026-04-09 19:52:12 UTC

ok i am going to date myself but this is a question mastodon was made for: Back In The Two Thousands, blogs were in a web of conversation, partly mediated by blog-specific search engines such as technorati. you could see who blogged about what urls. what is the way to do that now?

2026-04-01 21:28:56 UTC

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oh i dunno, no pauses seems strictly better than pauses, in an abstract sense!

2026-04-01 11:16:42 UTC

i love the gc handbook and also i think it is responsible for a specific form of brain damage in that it sells pauseless systems like sapphire as the pinnacle of the art, whereas most people should not be using those collectors

2026-03-25 20:50:34 UTC

i can tell that piketty is a real academic because he has a garbage web site http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/en/

2026-03-11 09:35:57 UTC

i have used setjmp in anger before. but until today i hadn't yet generated code with setjmp. first time for everything

2026-03-09 13:17:18 UTC

the way to pass in an ai-prohibiting situation is to describe something the llm made as excruciating. because it would have been

2026-03-06 12:45:12 UTC

my office is small enough that when i cough, the mandolin rings

2026-03-06 12:38:09 UTC

i am not impressed by lawyers. they are just paper sawyers

2026-03-03 09:15:05 UTC

i keep finding horrors
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/164/478/443/496/807/original/5c42c91b61b141d5.png

2026-02-09 09:16:17 UTC

today i learned that if you don't end a C file with a newline, the compiler is free to steal your apes
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/039/911/103/423/701/original/0f4a3f2aed1c175d.png

2026-02-06 16:29:31 UTC

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to binary code, yes; it is a bit of a roundabout path. whether it is efficient or not remains to be seen

2026-02-06 15:49:38 UTC

you have probably heard that webassembly supports garbage collection. are you looking for an ahead-of-time compiler for wasm with gc? as it happens, i have written a little monograph on the topic https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/02/06/ahead-of-time-wasm-gc-in-wastrel

2026-02-05 15:16:22 UTC

perhaps i have been misgendering my program and should start referring to it as miss compiler

2026-01-29 13:01:16 UTC

what the hell kind of prototype is this
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/978/511/468/023/466/original/27e652d3646cc954.png

2026-01-28 12:37:40 UTC

today, while writing a compiler, i discovered a bug in the compiler, of the language implementation in which i was implementing the compiler #compiler #compilercompiler

2026-01-23 13:21:53 UTC

i knocked on the door, but it seemed the place was uninhabited, like the bottom type,, #plstories

2026-01-19 13:08:24 UTC

people trying to convince me that "you have reached your token limit" is an expected and normal state of affairs; smh

2026-01-05 09:09:01 UTC

just noticed some amazing scar tissue in my .emacs
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/841/699/376/213/337/original/33aa2fedf57356db.png

2025-12-15 13:38:29 UTC

diagnosed a significant problem with my solar panel installation: they are 500m too low
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/723/855/761/798/709/original/03dad39326d970d5.jpeg

2025-12-02 13:48:25 UTC

i only use ai with regards to things i disrespect and have no wish to know, like docker. this is praxis

2025-11-12 10:13:08 UTC

mastodon should fix the bug where typos are invisible in the editing box but obvious on the timeline

2025-09-11 18:09:41 UTC

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wat!!

2025-08-04 18:50:06 UTC

ahahaha mccarthy was also salty about reviews in the 50s http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/lisp/lisp.pdf
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/971/984/993/372/903/original/6aba14c0579cf25a.png

2025-07-08 07:54:30 UTC

acm queue issue out on webassembly, with articles by dan ehrenberg, conrad watt, ben titzer, & yours truly: https://queue.acm.org/issuedetail.cfm?issue=3747201

2025-06-11 08:06:47 UTC

to everyone in europe who is revolted by the migrant kidnappings in the usa : we have our work cut out here, too. this year has been particularly hard in france because of the new restrictions on “régularisations” imposed by the interior minister, by decree, without a vote. we must stop the advance of the right before it gets even worse.
https://piaille.fr/@gisti/114663661550970452

2025-03-16 19:52:18 UTC

mods are sleeping, post your dangling pointers
0x7eff42691337b000
0x123400000000000
0xffffffffffffffff
0x0

2025-02-01 10:24:28 UTC

2881 ppm co2 in the dev room i am in… wtf #fosdem
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/928/140/541/449/434/original/27ecee56af651be8.jpeg

2025-01-20 10:14:29 UTC

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a function in possession of ten parameters, must be in want of an eleventh.

2024-12-15 08:31:43 UTC

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so you think it’s really just down to collection frequency? i wonder if they are also treating 4 years as including some kind of standby mode where frequency is 0

2024-12-15 08:25:57 UTC

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i suspect there are other sources of power usage, e.g. lcd vs e-ink

2024-12-15 08:21:43 UTC

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i have had a few air quality meters and appreciated them, changed some things about behavior and house as a result; but the annoying thing about many is the need for mains power. even if they have a battery it usually runs out and you forget to re-plug. like these two (co2 meter and pm10 meter)
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/655/866/982/852/770/original/016b92836b66c081.jpeg

2024-12-15 08:13:06 UTC

if you have a gas stove and especially a gas oven, you should absolutely get a co2 meter. you will be interested to see stove’s impact on co2 in your home
https://pawb.fun/@Neybulot/113653029418445359

2024-12-10 11:11:05 UTC

tfw you want to reserve a terabyte of virtual memory, u will surely not regret building a system that reserves a terabyte of virtual memory,,,

2024-11-18 10:20:36 UTC

datums:

2024-10-14 18:08:37 UTC

with regards to RMS. he is a creep. did some good things in the past. built the fsf around himself, not around free software; there was overlap in the past but not any more, for a decade at least, as the fsf is just an ineffective advocacy org that does no work. i no longer think about rms or his org and you should not either. shun and let wither.

2024-10-11 07:41:01 UTC

the french government's free and open source software advisory council weighs in on the value of direct EU funding of free software producers via @npub1dk0…k0wd and related NGI programs: https://social.numerique.gouv.fr/@codegouvfr/113287610402273459

2024-10-08 09:15:37 UTC

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js the language used to be ok, and now it is good and even great sometimes. this happened because people decided to work together, and because it was all funded by ads and phone sales and what-not. both conditions have been necessary, and both are lacking if we push responsibility out to "tooling"

2024-10-08 09:12:49 UTC

a tiny js0 take: a working economics of collaboration and progress is fragile. unhooking js development from browsers will break the machine, and i don't know that it can be put back together again

2024-10-07 14:21:41 UTC

it seems that yes, indeed, wasm is the next kubernetes https://wingolog.org/archives/2021/12/13/webassembly-the-new-kubernetes https://mastodon.social/@npub1r5z…t4tn/113256714685700497

2024-10-04 14:20:28 UTC

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from the paper
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/249/590/180/187/170/original/95a2ce21a7f27142.png

2024-10-04 13:26:15 UTC

what the haps, academics? here in industry land we are pushing the boundaries of programming languages by (checks notes) magic comments https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/explicit-javascript-compile-hints-file-based/blob/main/README.md

2024-10-04 13:16:59 UTC

💀💀💀 https://hal.science/hal-00128124/file/floating-point-article.pdf
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/249/335/394/522/314/original/fdf1a21b6326486b.png

2024-09-27 07:31:40 UTC

i am a goddamn middle-aged man, 32-bit x86 has been dead for years, and i just now got my first x87-related bug: floor(130.0 / (10.0 / 7.0)) is 91 with 64-bit flonums but 90 with 80-bit

2024-09-24 22:11:32 UTC

new takes from the take factory: fedi is for losers https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/09/24/fedi-is-for-losers

2024-09-20 12:29:02 UTC

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it seems there are other c++ programs embedded as webassembly on ui.perfetto.dev

2024-09-20 12:24:32 UTC

a funny webassembly story: perfetto.dev's native trace format uses protobufs. it used to be json, which was used by chrome://tracing. there is a CLI program to convert between binary and json, if you need it; and to open a binary perfetto trace with chrome://tracing, perfetto will run that converter in webassembly https://perfetto.dev/docs/quickstart/traceconv#opening-in-the-legacy-systrace-ui

2024-09-20 07:32:42 UTC

this is the craziest documentation. "write an address to a special file, as ascii hex" smh https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.0/trace/uprobetracer.html#usage-examples

2024-09-19 09:01:01 UTC

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sure. i just think that such propaganda *as a tactic* is often motivated by an incorrect theory of social change. i would be happy if time proves me wrong of course :)

2024-09-19 08:50:48 UTC

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you can externalize some of the cost by reusing components made by apple / google / mozilla. all of the alternative "browsers" do this except ladybird afaiu. servo re-uses quite a number of things from firefox and that's fine and great. shitting on mozilla while arguing for servo or on google while using some chromium variant is nonsensical

2024-09-19 08:48:41 UTC

lukewarm take: funding a browser via voluntary individual donations will not work. browers are too expensive. (could they be cheaper? maybe, but there is a lot of essential complexity.)
browsers need a bigger funding structure. the only appropriate strategies that i know of are ads (all of them), product sales (apple could do this) and taxation. i would prefer the latter (i.e. the eu funds a browser), but barring that i do not fault companies using other strategies

2024-09-08 08:50:55 UTC

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/

2024-08-29 05:23:26 UTC

wasm gc and tail calls, be still my heart!!!!
https://front-end.social/@jensimmons/113041831509587958

2024-08-24 12:50:13 UTC

realizing that i never want to {use a crate, import a module, …} makes me reflect:
- this probably limits my reach
- i do not plan on changing
- perhaps i should go to therapy

2024-08-22 21:02:19 UTC

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it should bring it in! if you are zeroing just before allocating, but in a big enough chunk to vectorize, then you are in the happy space (afaiu, ymmv, &c &c)
in whippet this means when you find a hole, you clear it before allocating into it. but dynamics depend on the program, holes could be just 16 bytes or could be up to 64kB

2024-08-22 20:12:22 UTC

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well, embedding can let you turn this off. but i am not so sure it would be a significant perf win (caches being what they are), and it is a big help when debugging

2024-08-22 20:03:45 UTC

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i mean literally it is __memset_avx512_unaligned_erms

2024-08-22 19:59:56 UTC

tfw 38% of gc time is spent in bzero

2024-08-15 07:41:25 UTC

being annoying can be good praxis. if you identify an injustice that most people don't yet see, the moral imperative is to be annoying enough to get others to see it too.
also though some people are just annoying