Alona

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Alona@alona· 4d

she just like me fr fr

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Alona@alona· 17d

wtf?

Architecture

For each page request, Silk dynamically decides whether networking, HTML parsing, and rendering tasks are handled locally or offloaded to Amazon EC2 servers.

Alona@alona· 18d

a man says "nonono, am a an absolute pointer provenance MASTER check this out...". he writes downs "whatever the CPU ISA says". he smiles smugly.

Alona@alona· Jun 29

infuriating(but probably inconsequential) bad rustc/llvm codegen: Using an error message in an `assert!` means a function now needs to setup a stack and write to memory in the fast-path

$#[unsafe(no_mangle)] fn good_message(a: u8) -> u8 { assert!(a <= 0xf, "value {a} is too large"); a*2 } #[unsafe(no_mangle)] fn bad_message(a: u8) -> u8 { assert!(a <= 0xf); a*2 }$

bad_message:
cmp dil, 16
jae .LBB0_2
add dil, dil
mov eax, edi
ret

good_message:
sub rsp, 24
mov byte ptr [rsp + 7], dil
cmp dil, 16
jae .LBB1_2
add dil, dil
mov eax, edi
add rsp, 24
ret

Alona@alona· Jun 16

CC @davidbarsky.com

jj mentioned!

Anime girl holding two bottles of JJ Vodka (a real thing!), wearing a toronto blue jays baseball cap. There's a Jay (the bird) perched on top of each bottle of vodka. She's stood infront of the east river in new york, with the river and then the manhattan skyline visible behind.

Alona@alona· Jun 12

god, if you want to get mega-caring about typography, HTML really isn't sufficient is it. i want the stems in m and l to line up (which they almost do, by sheer coincidence), and also the stems in p and n to

Alona@alona· Apr 21

proposal for the onion:

Alona@alona· Apr 13

see also: gcc.gnu.org/wiki/reload

Reload is the GCC equivalent of Satan. See [gccsource:reload.c], [gccsource:reload1.c], and [gccsource:reload.h] if you have a brave soul. (You'll probably also wind up looking at [gccsource:local-alloc.c] and [gccsource:global.c], the register allocator proper.)

What does reload do?

Good question. The what is still understandable. Don't ask about the how.

Reload does everything, and probably no one exactly knows how much that is. But to give you some idea:

Alona@alona· Apr 7

i’ve seen speculation that it’s to do with a massive increase in traffic due to pushes of LLM generated code;

Kyle Daigle @kdaigle:

Yup, platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025.
Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.)
GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and now 2.1B minutes so far this week.
So we're pushing incredibly hard on more CPUs, scaling services, and strengthening GitHub's core features.
And as a fine purveyor of hand-crafted shit code for many years, I'm not gonna weigh in on that.

Quote Tweeing:

@ThePrimeagen

I would like to make my apologies for defending M$, but I must from time to time.
I have to put respect on github for handling the amount of shit code that has been added over the last 3 months....

Alona@alona· Apr 4

a story in two parts lol

the parent post about factorio, then below a post from adam about the baby being at grandmothers and it being time to blog

Alona@alona· Mar 15

there’s a thesis to be written here about AI and the need for art to appear that there was effort and intention put into it (and what’s left behind once those are removed) github.com/anthropics/s...

• Emphasize craftsmanship
REPEATEDLY: The philosophy
MUST stress multiple times that the final algorithm should appear as though it took countless hours to develop, was refined with care, and comes from someone at the absolute top of their field. This framing is essential - repeat phrases like "meticulously crafted algorithm," "the product of deep computational expertise,"
"painstaking optimization,"
"master-level implementation."

• EXPERT CRAFTSMANSHIP:
Repeatedly emphasize the final algorithm must feel meticulously crafted, refined through countless iterations, the product of deep expertise by someone at the absolute top of their field in computational aesthetics

CRAFTSMANSHIP
REQUIREMENTS
CRITICAL: To achieve mastery, create algorithms that feel like they emerged through countless iterations by a master generative artist. Tune every parameter carefully. Ensure every pattern emerges with purpose. This is NOT random noise
- this is CONTROLLED CHAOS refined through deep expertise.

Alona@alona· Mar 9

emftime

Dawn of the final day, 2 minutes remain. Photo shopped Badly

Alona@alona· Feb 28

im enjoying the idea that mass foreign surveillance wouldn’t be a violation of fundamental rights (from www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...)

Second, we believe that mass domestic surveillance of Americans constitutes a violation of fundamental rights.

Alona@alona· Jan 23

ideal wikipedia outline

Alona@alona· Jan 20

My talk's gonna be soo good.

How two write a rust compiler:

1. Depend on the library-ified bits of rustc

Image of two circles labeled rustc_lexer and rustc_next_trait_solver

2. Write the rest of the fucking compiler

Image of an owl.

Alona@alona· Dec 27

www.java.com/en/download/...

Why is Java 8 recommended?

Java.com is for end users who need Java for running applications on desktops and laptops. Java 8 integrates with your operating system to run separately installed Java applications. If you were asked to install Java to run a desktop application, it’s most likely you need Java 8.

Developers are encouraged to download the Java Development Kit from OTN downloads or Oracle OpenJDK downloads from jdk.java.net depending on their needs.

Oracle customers with access to My Oracle Support or Oracle Software Delivery Cloud should consider downloading through those services.

Alona@alona· Dec 17

www.gov.uk/guidance/sty... @predr.ag the UK government has an official position that breaking changes are not broadly understood.

breaking changes

‘Breaking changes’ are changes to one part of your software system that may cause other parts to fail. Do not use this term without explaining it - user research shows not all technologists immediately understand what it means.

Alona@alona· Dec 9

if you're not gonna be pseudonymous, when are you starting a podcast so i can trust you??!??

Adam's bsky bio. His face is labeled "REAL FACE". The word texan is labeled "REAL PLACE". His name is labeled "REAL NAME".

Alona@alona· Nov 29

Dracula: What is markdown? A miserable little pile of regex.

Alona@alona· Nov 26

cartoon.

a sad looking man is in a normal car labeled 'traditional linux distros'

hi looks over at a man next to him. he's in a vehicle powered by a rocket labeled 'hermetic package management'. the rocket is tied to a tiny cart labeled 'awful tooling', the man smiles, and says 'i can't believe you haven't switched'

in the corner, the cartoonist says 'let's nix that idea!'

Alona@alona· Nov 24

if rust is sooo good why don't they make a rust2...

Alona@alona· Nov 9

impl<T> Debug for [T] where T: Debug

In the zohran mamdani sign style

Alona@alona· Oct 27

idk, the beef looks pretty two-sided to me

"It's true of me that I just don't enjoy interacting with agency PR people that much," Newton says. He calls Zitron's recent turn to commentary "a new gimmick for himself-Al hater number one" and says Zitron has a "one-sided beef" with him. (Zitron says it's a
"critique.") He compares Zitron's prolix style to "some cross between the Always Sunny meme of Charlie with the murder board] and then a prisoner smearing shit on the walls to make a point." Newton went on: "I think Ed has actually flown too close to the sun now, because he's built this pedestal for himself, and he's climbed on top, and he's posing for glossy portraits in the Financial Times magazine and WIRED, wearing aviators like the fucking Temu Kara Swisher."

Alona@alona· Jun 25

if rust is soo good, why didn't they make rus.. oh shit

A terminal prompt:

gh-aDotInTheVoid@dev-desktop-eu-1:~/rust2$

Alona@alona· Jun 3

don't talk to me or my son ever again

Alona@alona· Feb 20

With today's release of the 2024 edition, Rust joins C in the exclusive pantheon of languages with an off-by-one error in their version numbers.

Announcing Rust 1.85.0 and Rust 2024
Feb. 20, 2025 · The Rust Release Team

C17 (C standard revision)

C17, formally ISO/IEC 9899:2018, is an open standard for the C programming language, prepared in 2017 and published in July 2018.

Alona@alona· Feb 19

your outie doesn't blindly make backups, but regularly checks that they're complete and can be restored from

Alona@alona· Feb 19

your outie encourages using signal when possible, but isn't zealous about it

Alona@alona· Feb 18

your outie makes sure all context is in the commit message, and not just the PR description