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2026-03-20 12:21:55 UTC

I just went in for my third dose against Tick-Based Encephalitis, and the lovely person administering the shot told me that they are expecting to be able to provide immunization against Lyme disease either in 2027 or 2028!
Apparently Pfizer has a vaccine currently being trialed in phase 3. And they expect it will go well, which means a vaccine might actually become available soon!

2026-03-03 00:42:49 UTC

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@nprofile…w9rm that's slime slander!

2025-11-30 02:05:36 UTC

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Slack, overhead, and spare capacity are not inefficiencies to be ground down, but integral to the stable functioning of systems. Because a system without buffers cannot absorb shocks.

2025-08-25 20:56:24 UTC

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@nprofile…50zr Ohhh, that sky cove looks really cozy!

2025-08-16 11:56:37 UTC

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Looking at the tags here, the current nightly is tagged v12.0: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/tags
I'm not familiar enough with neovim's release schedule to say anything particularly informed; but just looking at their historic release schedule it seems that neovim 12 might be somewhere between 2-6 weeks away?

2025-08-16 11:43:59 UTC

Oh wow, starting from version 11, Neovim will not only begin shipping with a native package manager (!), it will also begin shipping with native LSP support (!!!).
https://youtu.be/xGkL2N8w0H4

2025-08-15 03:03:54 UTC

Nope, I give up. Helix just isn't there yet for me. It:
- doesn't have working reflow key bindings, which they inherited from Kakoune
- doesn't have support for tabs (a 400 LOC PR has been open for years)
- doesn't have a plugin system (and they're going to design a new language for it, it sounds like?)
- doesn't render diagnostics in a way that I enjoy reading
- doesn't have support for mini map/scroll bars
I think helix is a cool project. But I really can't see myself daily driving it as-is

2025-08-14 23:36:50 UTC

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Found out the other day that the IETF uses Zulip too. So does the Rust project. So does the Bytecode Alliance.
Do I have issues with Zulip? Yes, plenty. Does Zulip send me notifications to buy "orbs"? No, never. And I'm glad.

2025-08-14 23:34:15 UTC

Say what you will about Zulip; at least they're building a piece of software that works and seems to be gradually improving over time.
As a company they don't seem particularly interested in engaging in the hyper-growth-or-die cycle that so many other companies fall into. And like, for something I treat as infrastructure, I think that's great.

2025-08-11 20:42:57 UTC

Zellij's support for stacked windows is so nice! I now have a setup where my main pane has my editor, but my right pane has a stack of three different programs I can rotate through:
- a regular terminal session
- a tui-based git client (lazygit)
- a tui-based file explorer (yuzi)
In the future I plan to configure this further by creating additional, project-specific panes too. For example: dedicated `cargo test`, `cargo check`, and `cargo run` panes.
https://cdn.masto.host/tootyoshis/media_attachments/files/115/012/073/027/370/819/original/d2ecac755347aae3.png
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2025-08-07 02:29:11 UTC

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Related: I'm also quite keen to try out jujutsu for real sometime soon. Enough computer folks I respect swear by it, and I think it's time I try it myself ^_^

2025-08-07 02:28:00 UTC

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The reason? Well, I could come up with some big talk about productivity or whatever, but to be fair I just really like messing around with computer tools. It's important to do things that spark joy y'know?
But there's also something really appealing to having a setup that's all-rust imo!

2025-08-06 16:04:12 UTC

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For me the most interesting part of this project is the plugin system itself tbh. I think what we've done for Wassette should not be that hard to reproduce for other systems and protocols that want to have an extension system.

2025-08-06 15:55:09 UTC

Introducing Wassette - a Wasm runtime that exposes Wasm Components over the MCP protocol:
https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/08/06/introducing-wassette-webassembly-based-tools-for-ai-agents
The entire industry seems to be driving to create MCP-based tooling for their products. But what if, 1) those tools didn’t just have to be specific to MCP, and 2) we could actually employ good security practices like sandboxed execution of untrusted code, deny-by-default access to system resources, and so on. All stuff that imo you’d hope to see in a plugin system.

2025-07-27 22:25:19 UTC

I'm learning about the US-EU trade deal and oh my god. Asymmetric 15% tariffs in favor of the US. And why? So the EU can get Ford F-150 trucks killing children here too? So we can buy US arms? Make it make sense.
I hate neolibs so much oh my god.

2025-07-01 23:57:52 UTC

too eepy to wake
too wakey to eep

2025-06-28 14:52:39 UTC

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Cozymaxxing in ways most people can't even conceive of.
(Half joking, but also somewhat earnest. Ceiling-mounted acoustic insulation for residential applications is severely underrated imo.)

2025-06-28 14:50:11 UTC

One day I'll own a house and I'll be able to engage in acoustic design for it.
I strive to be the type of guy who will tell you about the acoustic properties of our living room.

2025-06-20 11:53:07 UTC

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I went on the computer for 30 mins today. And I biked to and from the grocery store for 20 mins total.
No crash so far! Not even anything remotely resembling exhaustion. Which means I'm in the clear to make my own lunch ^^

2025-06-20 07:55:37 UTC

Woke up, no symptoms anymore. Doesn't mean I'm in the clear yet - but it's a good sign!
Energy levels are still low. But not long-Covid low. I expect to be able to go back to work next week, at least in a part-time capacity. Which means: couple of hours a day of work, and minimal meetings.

2025-05-31 22:42:53 UTC

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For the record, I'm modifying an existing model. If I was anywhere good enough to make that base model I wouldn't be struggling the way I am lol.

2025-05-31 22:41:52 UTC

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I feel so clunky lol. Even basic stuff like: "remove this screwhole, replace it with something else." is like, so hard.
But I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually! And like, I'll build grit my teeth and build the keyboard case of my dreams.

2025-05-31 22:40:03 UTC

Nowhere near where I'd like it to be, but it's progress!
https://cdn.masto.host/tootyoshis/media_attachments/files/114/604/847/807/528/135/original/d72362ac6025e355.jpeg

2025-05-26 15:13:45 UTC

New blog post: Async Traits Can Be Directly Backed By Manual Future Impls
https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/async-traits-can-be-directly-backed-by-manual-future-impls/
This is a pretty short one. It clarifies a common misconceptions people have about the performance of Async Functions in Traits (AFITs), showing how to back those using manually implemented future state machines. Which is important, because it means performance and convenience are not mutually exclusive.

2025-05-15 22:37:53 UTC

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@nprofile…4wg6 ohhhh, neatttt!

2025-05-15 22:03:33 UTC

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@nprofile…4wg6 I really want to try this out at some point. I've got a custom keyboard case to design, and this seems better than most other options ^^

2025-05-15 20:47:09 UTC

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otoh I did bike for 20km today. being tired is not surprising

2025-05-15 20:45:49 UTC

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borng 2 honk shoe
forced 2 write

2025-05-15 20:37:01 UTC

im too tired to thimk

2025-04-22 17:21:19 UTC

Successfully reduced 4L of chicken broth to around 500mL of stock. I was saying to my partner a few weeks ago how I didn't like how much space broth was taking up in the freezer. That should no longer be a problem!

2025-04-04 15:10:55 UTC

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@nprofile…q5gk This is so cool! - I’m really happy to see this!

2025-04-04 02:06:29 UTC

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(the longest unpublished blog post I have is approx. 20.000 words. that's the size of a short book. Or 40 of the blog posts I just wrote)

2025-04-04 02:03:53 UTC

pls clap. I (re-)wrote a blog post and it's only 500 words. Back down from the 1000+ half-done draft I had staring me down for over a month now.
Will publish tomorrow!

2025-04-03 21:07:52 UTC

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Like, I feel like some people are trying to take solace in the idea that there is a plan — even if it is a malignant one. That's much less scary than the reality, where the people steering the ship have no idea what they're doing.
Not trying to be glib or whatever and try and say that these people are actually harmless or not worth taking seriously. Quite the opposite: they're definitely exceptional. Just not in the way where they are playing five dimensional chess and we're not.

2025-04-03 20:56:10 UTC

I've seen some people on here post conspiratorial takes along the lines of: "the elites want to get us into a recession so they can buy everything for cheap."
That sounds scary and deliberate. But it completely ignores what we've seen from pretty much everyone in power: these are not smart people.
Most of the ruling class is not exceptionally bright or whatever. They have no idea what they're doing. Their sole defining characteristic is their extraordinary capacity for cruelty.

2025-04-03 19:05:25 UTC

WASI 0.2.5 has been released! No major changes. But noteworthy is that this was the first release which was almost entirely automated!
https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/releases/tag/v0.2.5

2025-04-03 13:19:07 UTC

Ohhhh, amazing work! - The next release of Wasmtime will have Wasm Component support for the `--profile` flag!
https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/pull/10507
This will produce a `perf.json` file that can be read by the Firefox profiler. This is yet another step closer to having portable, language-agnostic instrumentation!

2025-04-02 19:24:16 UTC

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@nprofile…r88l
Smashing the boost button before even reading it because I know this is going to be good

2025-04-01 02:21:12 UTC

Decision tables map really well to match statements in Rust? The exhaustiveness checks performed by the compiler almost feel like they validate the model itself?
https://cdn.masto.host/tootyoshis/media_attachments/files/114/260/316/408/975/670/original/a9a9085b21662e15.jpeg

2025-03-31 18:50:49 UTC

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@nprofile…pej0
Disappointing, though unsurprising that after 25 years of right-wing governance in the Netherlands the state media might slant right

2025-03-31 13:36:33 UTC

I love how my "I'm going to the coffee shop to write a little"-setup is about the size of a couple of notebooks stacked on top.
I know iPads aren't the same as Cyberdecks, but if you add a split keyboard to it, it sure starts to feel close.
https://cdn.masto.host/tootyoshis/media_attachments/files/114/257/309/846/552/033/original/cfa4978f79b9467a.jpeg

2025-03-30 22:36:48 UTC

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@nprofile…508z congrats!

2025-03-30 22:30:24 UTC

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I’m thinking back to a previous gig where I was tasked evaluating the integration of a new database into our system.
I believe it required three separate containers to run the database. Of which at least one had what felt like, 200-300 different CLI options? Just pages upon pages of tunable parameters and configuration settings.
It felt that in order to effectively run the database you needed to understand the database internals. And we had nobody on our staff like that.

2025-03-30 22:01:58 UTC

lol, they're not wrong
(From "Feedback Control")
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2025-03-29 15:18:56 UTC

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Of course these results need to be reproduced to be fully generalized to countries outside of Greece. The concrete numbers may of course vary from place to place.
But intuitively this also makes a lot of sense. Waterborne and foodborne diseases are strictly controlled for. Surface-based transmission is by nature a lot less transmittable. It makes sense that airborne diseases, which have virtually no controls, are the main remaining vector.

2025-03-29 15:12:05 UTC

You know how memory safety issues are responsible for approx 70% of CVEs and that’s considered a huge deal and worth mitigating?
What if I told you diseases had a very similar stat. Where about 85% of all sick days can be attributed to airborne diseases:
https://mastodon.social/@augieray/114246182180851688

2025-03-28 20:30:23 UTC

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@nprofile…dg5x I don’t like any of this. Thank you for writing it

2025-03-28 13:16:15 UTC

Yeah yeah, white supremacists are morally repulsive etc. But do we talk enough about how boring they are?
None of the white supremacists actually seem to appreciate the things that make life worth living. Art, music, food, friends. They’re always around hating on things rather than enjoying new things. All the while putting themselves forward as supposed arbiters of good taste.
What taste? What imagination? I don’t think it’s an accident they’re all so boring and bland either.

2025-03-28 01:53:37 UTC

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@nprofile…sz89
Maybe this helps answer that? https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/reference/lifetime-elision.html

2025-03-28 01:14:58 UTC

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For people wondering about the different meanings of ‘static:
- In references it means that the data pointed to by the reference lives for the remaining lifetime of the program.
- In trait bounds it means the type does not contain any non-‘static references.

2025-03-28 01:11:11 UTC

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Rust guides are generally pretty good about telling you about the three ways by which values can be passed (owned, shared ref, mutable ref). But it's far more rare to hear about the three kinds of lifetimes Rust has (covariant, contravariant, invariant).
And then there are lifetimes like ‘static that also have their own rules that can be tricky to get your head around. 'static also has different meanings depending on whether it's used in trait bounds or in references.
Lifetimes are not easy!

2025-03-28 01:01:19 UTC

Pointer Provenance and Lifetime Variance have a lot in common. Neither is directly encoded as part of a type; but the compiler very much cares about it, and needs you - as a programmer - to also care about it. Though it may not be forthright about wanting you to.

2025-03-27 01:05:32 UTC

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Survived release day. Very tired now. But also somewhat pleased about it.
It’s nice being able to actually show people what Wasm allows us to do. In this case: zap entire chunks of traditional compute stacks. It’s a lot of work; but we’re also just kind of proving that we can just do the work?

2025-03-26 14:41:44 UTC

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TLDR what this post is about
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2025-03-26 14:24:19 UTC

New new new on the Microsoft OSS blog: We’ve released a Wasm Component guest for the Hyperlight hypervisor!
We talk a little about what this means and how it works on the blog. But tldr: we’ve made it possible to start new VM partitions, load a Wasm runtime, and start executing a Wasm Component binary in about ~1ms. No guest OS. No virtual devices. And I think that’s pretty cool!
https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/03/26/hyperlight-wasm-fast-secure-and-os-free/

2025-03-26 01:12:06 UTC

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It’s so fun. I’ve cast “recast special interest” and it just worked. Somehow!

2025-03-26 01:07:36 UTC

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Having entirely too much fun with this. Here’s another ^^
https://cdn.masto.host/tootyoshis/media_attachments/files/114/226/053/210/521/721/original/8e1e37168534af9a.jpeg

2025-03-25 20:05:59 UTC

sparks joy 😌
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2025-03-25 02:36:29 UTC

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@nprofile…hmrr
Both threads and tasks are unjoined by default. For either, if you drop the handle the work continues by the handle is now unreachable. Meaning the output is no longer directly observable. And in the case of async: the operation can no longer be cancelled.
See https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/tasks-are-the-wrong-abstraction/ for more

2025-03-25 01:49:59 UTC

I’ve been reading more about control systems, and I’m now thinking: cancellation in async programming is a form of feedback control!
Structured concurrency is an attempt to create closed feedback loops where we can apply feedback control (add more work, cancel work) and always observe the output signal (return values, errors).
Unstructured concurrency (e.g. task::spawn) creates open-loop systems that can lose signal and cant always receive feedback. Which is inherently brittle and unstable.

2025-03-24 01:13:31 UTC

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(Somewhat keen to properly make my way through the control systems and concurrency books I’ve got in my library. Feel like I finally have the required context to re-read them more thoroughly.)

2025-03-24 01:05:59 UTC

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The only downside of this is that I meant to spend about half as much time on that today, and spend the rest of the day reading. Ah well.

2025-03-24 01:03:39 UTC

Spent about 7hrs in the kitchen today making food for the week. There’s something oddly soothing about just making things that is hard to replicate any other way.

2025-03-22 00:48:30 UTC

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Oooooops, confused author names. Different John than what I wrote in my original toot.

2025-03-21 23:38:42 UTC

In other news: I finished John de Goes’ book “a philosophy of software design” this week. Thought it was decent; I think he makes some solid points overall. Especially enjoyed the start where he tries to capture what complexity precisely is.
I suspect most practitioners with 10+ years in the field will know most of what the book says already, like intuitively. But not a bad read to have some of those things explicitly repeated back. Decent book overall imo!

2025-03-21 17:07:35 UTC

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@nprofile…w5ph @nprofile…lx87 hello and welcome! \o/

2025-03-21 01:14:43 UTC

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@nprofile…v3z4 I got the aranet one!

2025-03-21 00:13:36 UTC

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All we’re now missing are a radon and VOC meter.

2025-03-21 00:11:39 UTC

Air quality geekery intensifies: we now have a radiation meter in our living room!

2025-03-20 02:30:45 UTC

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@nprofile…v2wt love ittttt

2025-03-19 00:20:56 UTC

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@nprofile…tamy 🍋‍🟩 🍋‍🟩 🍋‍🟩 🍋‍🟩 🍋‍🟩

2025-03-17 01:10:52 UTC

Ohh fun, learned a new buzzword today: “continuous profiling”. It’s an observability thing where stack traces are captured and sent to the big logging database.
I can get behind this ^^

2025-03-16 17:49:15 UTC

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@nprofile…keqf not that I'm aware of, no

2025-03-16 13:26:26 UTC

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And the outcome of this system is not to replace diagnostic work — but to aid in initial assessment. Its initial data ingestion, that is prepared for review by a qualified physician.
Of course the quality of the implementation will matter. And there technology doesn’t exist in a social vacuum either. But architecturally this seems like it might actually work out quite nicely?

2025-03-16 13:20:40 UTC

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The way I understand the work here is that each step of the way the way this system essentially goes: “citation needed”.
The initial categorization of symptoms must always link back to actual diagnostic records. The secondary linking of these symptoms to potential diagnoses must be entirely based off of source material, with every statement being backed by actual quotes. With a third pass going back to make sure that those statements also relate back to the patient data.

2025-03-16 13:10:35 UTC

The way I think about “AI” as a set of technologies is that they are probabilistic tools. Where these tools, at least on a technical level, fall short is when they’re applied to things that require deterministic answers. Or maybe are probabilistic, but are high-consequence so you need people to make decisions.
Anyway, just read this article about making AI hallucination-proof for clinical settings — and at least from a technical perspective this seems like it might work
https://venturebeat.com/ai/mayo-clinic-secret-weapon-against-ai-hallucinations-reverse-rag-in-action/

2025-03-16 00:15:45 UTC

Had my fourth EMDR therapy session yesterday, and it definitely did a number on me. Wasn’t sure how well it was working, but I think after yesterday’s session I can confidently say it’s working. Though like,, it is *work*.

2025-03-15 00:14:37 UTC

How tired was I today? I fell asleep on the couch at 20:30. Woke up at 23:00. All that despite having had enough sleep last night.

2025-03-12 02:51:36 UTC

Back in bed again. And it’s such a joy. Years of sleeping problems, but this is legit the happiest I’ve ever been to fall into my own bed. It’s just so comfy.
Can’t promise you that ironing and/or steaming your bed sheets will help you sleep better. But I’m putting it out there as a thing you can try, and possibly already own most required equipment for.

2025-03-11 01:33:49 UTC

I channeled my inner Patrick Bateman last weekend and steamed our bed’s fitted sheet *after* putting it on the bed.
And hooooolyyyy, I’ve reached a level of comfortable in bed I didn’t even believe was possible. Ironed bed covers. Steamed sheets. Silk pillows. I’m reaching deep into the sleepy time skill tree here.

2025-03-11 00:22:50 UTC

One of my goals for this month is to do yoga every day. I don’t necessarily love doing yoga, but I’ve been so out of shape that I can’t go back to doing the interval training I was doing before I got COVID in 2022.
So yoga it is. 20 mins a day (25 starting tomorrow). And it’s legitimately been great. Though the funniest muscle I’ve started feeling is my left palm lmao. Biggest gains so far are in my hands apparently lol.

2025-03-09 20:36:59 UTC

I might try to update localghost [1] using jco [2] targeting browser.wit [3] in anger sometime. It seems like it should be doable now?
[1]: https://github.com/localghost
[2]: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/jco
[3]: https://github.com/MendyBerger/browser.wit/tree/main/examples

2025-03-09 16:31:16 UTC

Listening to the latest TrashFuture episode with Dr. Patrick Wyman about the analogs between the fall of the Byzantine Empire and the contemporary North-Atlantic hegemonic powers.
Main takeaway so far: it’s incredibly important for any form of organization to regularly cycle its elites. When the elite class becomes ossified and untouchable, power stops concerning itself with the functioning of the state and instead orients itself around access and vicinity to central power figures.

2025-03-08 17:30:12 UTC

Happy to learn that BlueSky - social media company co-owned by billionaire Jack Dorsey, Crypto Capital, and FileCoin - is billionaire-proof. It would really suck if they were.
https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3ljt2kfpoks22

2025-03-08 16:19:02 UTC

The smog in Denmark is so bad lol; you can’t see more than 200m away because of the particles. And this is only at PM2.5 of 50ppm. I’ve been to places where it gets much MUCH higher than that.
Anyway, not regretting getting air filters for our house. With all filters set to low (for noise reasons), indoor air has a PM2.5 of only 4ppm — for a 90% reduction of pollutants.

2025-03-08 14:51:43 UTC

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@nprofile…g6z3
Ohh yeah, I think we’ve gone there before haven’t we?

2025-03-08 14:39:34 UTC

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@nprofile…j7g3
Wait, I’m confused now? I was asking about exokernels, but in your reply you mention unikernel. I thought these were different things?

2025-03-08 14:10:26 UTC

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@nprofile…j7g3
Oh interesting, I see how that makes sense! Could you say that e.g. SpiderMonkey is an exokernel?

2025-03-08 14:06:11 UTC

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@nprofile…j7g3 oh interesting; yeah I’ve heard that term before but didn’t quite understand what it meant. How would you describe what the purpose of an exokernel is?

2025-03-08 14:05:29 UTC

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@nprofile…rfnm oh I see, that makes more sense!

2025-03-08 13:51:32 UTC

Ok, so a unikernel is a kernel that includes a language runtime? I think that makes sense for things like Java or even Wasm that clearly have runtimes that typically aren’t part of the OS.
But what I’m wondering is: doesn’t C have a runtime too? And isn’t that runtime typically included by the kernel? Would it be fair to say that e.g. Linux is a unikernel because it hosts a C runtime?
I’m genuinely curious where things start and end here. OS development is not a field I have done much in.

2025-03-07 18:23:27 UTC

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Do I think this work is perfect? Definitely not, there is a lot that can be improved. The website is slow, and the app could use some improvements.
But it covers all the basics, including a fully open / exportable dataset. Which means contributing to it is unlikely to be a waste.

2025-03-07 18:18:21 UTC

I made my first contribution to https://indoorco2map.com/ recently!
This is an open dataset of indoor CO2 levels, sourced by volunteer contributors. It has native apps for both iOS and Android, and connects without much hassle to e.g. Aranet4 sensors.

2025-03-06 19:48:10 UTC

Nori cat knows how to open doors, and let me tell you that is a PROBLEM

2025-03-06 12:08:11 UTC

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@nprofile…kl6p
Ha, I’d actually say that Gmail has some catching up to do and should implement JMAP instead:
https://www.fastmail.com/blog/jmap-new-email-open-standard

2025-03-04 03:27:37 UTC

Every time I see someone claim that Bluesky is “decentralized” somehow I really have to hold myself back to not immediately go: “no it’s not.”
Bluesky is decentralized the same way Google search is “decentralized” - the core of the system is a giant indexer that slurps up content from various sources and determines who gets to see what and when.
The ATProto Spec claims the centralized indexer is just an “optimization” too. Like that isn’t the entire point of the product.

2025-03-02 14:08:35 UTC

Timeline cleanse - here are baby Chashu and baby Nori playing cq. 2018.
https://cdn.masto.host/tootyoshis/media_attachments/files/114/093/228/581/459/089/original/258d07e8f69283f2.jpeg

2025-03-02 02:54:47 UTC

I started using the Johnny Decimal indexing system a month or so ago. Something I only realized today is that it makes it really convenient to reference projects with from my physical notebook.
This month’s projects are ✨:
- 21.0014
- 21.0015
- 24.0012
- 22.0010
- 22.0009
- 23.0001
- 24.0010
- 25.0003
- 25.0002

2025-02-28 04:12:50 UTC

Working on compiler tooling gives me so much joy. Filed a patch today to make `wasm-tools` print a summary before printing detailed data about each payload.
https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-tools/pull/2079
https://cdn.masto.host/tootyoshis/media_attachments/files/114/079/561/515/159/494/original/83f7e5c216c3a645.jpeg

2025-02-25 20:04:23 UTC

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@nprofile…6ntz that’s huge, congratulations!