who decided to call it speculative execution and not cache me if you can

makes sense

Today I got to tell a native french speaker my favourite french linguistics fact, which she didn't already know and was delighted to learn!

Cowbert, 1999 🧵

Thank you very much for reading it! An interesting question there – I believe the answer you're after is that the alphabet was itself affected by the GVS. Because since the Romans the vowel letters' names were simply the long vowels they represented, they were targets for the shift too.

@dannybate.bsky.social I very much enjoyed WQNU. I came out with a better understanding of how “long” vowels were actually long before they shifted into diphthongs. It left me even more curious how we arrived at the coincidence that each vowel’s name is the same diphthong.

The second half of the "ghost s" thing in French is that many words beginning with é + consonant used to have an s there instead (you can see the intermediary step in Spanish) school escuela école (Latin: schola) spouse épouse esposa student étudiant estudiante

We have a “for bots” fork of the Endo repository and I’m running agents in a VM from a bot account that only has write access to that one repository. 🧵

And Christopher Clavius, the nerd behind the Gregorian calendar, liked to calculate times to the fourth (1/3600th of a second).

The Hampster Dance website in 1999 This website was one of the earliest examples of an Internet meme and it was created by Deidre LaCarte in 1998. #InternetHistory

The web got safe b/c browsers became a collective bargain btween users & sites. A treaty, not a handshake. AI agents have no such treaty yet. @mnot.net just named the gap. Endo github.com/endojs/endo is the architecture he's describing. It exists. in production today www.mnot.net/blog/2026/04...

It’s wild, but I think endo will soon grow into its destiny as a node/deno/bun anagram that makes it practical to safely empower apps, peers, and bots with a practical permission management system. The crux is a local-first user agent. dcfoundation.io/containing-a...

We’re building a user agent and extensible platform for safely sharing capabilities with bots. Ask me anything. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4788...

🚨 Shipping AI agents? 🚨 Three questions: Prompt-injected, what can it reach? Exfiltrating data, what stops it? Dependency compromised, what's the blast radius? @kriskowal.com demos the Endo Familiar: dcfoundation.io/containing-a...

You probably have not read my finest writing kriskowal.com/we-three-bei...

The word umbrella comes from the Latin word for shade, so “shade umbrella” _would be redundant_ save that parasol also denotes casting off the sun’s cancerous rays. We do not have a word for a “rain umbrella” in English. The German analogue is a “rain shield”.

Did you know that “Magyar” is the Hungarian word for Hungarian?

@katelynsills.com *This* code is law. — Hammurabi

To sum up: The Gizmodo article is bad, and the journalist AJ Dellinger is sloppy at best. "ChatGPT Voice mode" is a bad product. The usefulness of AI products depends heavily on 1) their training, and 2) their tool use. And the tool use is not "millions of times" the energy consumption. /End

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Well this is a big milestone! hachyderm.io/@ridley/1163... This is the first time two distinct OCapN implementations have talked to each other. Dart 🤝 Scheme What is OCapN, you ask? It's the next generation of secure RPC using capability security! Check it out and get involved! ocapn.org

oh hey it’s me letterformarchive.org/news/type-we...

I’m gonzo for AI and this is a good idea. Wikipedia belongs to a deeper pace layer. Critical infrastructure. Move slow, edit things.

More: - Tiffany Aching, Pratchett - Prydain, Alexander (great as a pre-LOTR series imo) - Dark Is Rising, Cooper - His Dark Materials (hits real hard for weirdo smart kids) - Graceling, Cashore (I mistakenly read them in order 1-3-2 and actually might recommend that) - Queen’s Thief, Turner

The billionaires so often forget that Hiro Protagonist lives in a U Stor-It, shits in a pay toilet, formerly delivered pizza for the Mafia to make rent, and freelances for pennies. He is not aspirational, his world is not utopia.

Did you know I made a baby book for counting in binary! Tell 1 friend. Tell 2 friends. Tell 4 friends! Tell 8 friends!!!1! kriskowal.com/bbbb

Last week we were able to present @robpalmer.bsky.social with his physical Ecma Recognition Award! 🎉 This was followed by an extensive round of tributes and praise, which Rob endured somewhat uncomfortably, at every opportunity urging us to cease and attend to the waiting celebratory Temporal cake.

Happy Proto-Indo-European Day to all who Celebrate!!

I have been writing about Temporal for *such a long time* I talked to @b.trl.sn in 2021 about everything that was wrong with "our broken Date object" and how Temporal would fix that, but I did say it would have to wait on IETF work that wouldn't be done till 2022 thenewstack.io/javascript-f...

In Jr college, my philosophy professor hosted both the Catholic and Muslim students’ associations from her office at the same time. It was the most beautiful and welcoming room on campus.

Myth: LLM-assisted coding means everyone is forced to use The Popular Framework forever. I discovered, rather by accident, that some models are quite capable of evolving my vanilla direct-to-DOM dependency-free evergreen abomination.

JavaScript now has non-mutating array methods ✨ `toSorted()`, `toReversed()`, `toSpliced()`, and `with()` return new arrays instead of modifying the original. No more [...arr].sort() to avoid side effects. Learn more 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...

warning: the clocks change in the US this weekend. you care about that if you're in the EU or UK because we *don't* spring forward yet, so all your calls and meetings with US folks will be off by one for a couple of weeks

They’re the same picture.

Paternal grandfather was a WWII army veteran, son of immigrants coming from Ukraine and Hungary, and spent what remained of his life drilling oil wells in Venezuela until cancer took him in the throat. Maternal grandfather designed the turbopumps for Saturn V and who-knows-what-else at Skunk Works.

Any technologist who cares about how much control users should expect from platforms like the web and social media should watch these presentations: @dustyweb.bsky.social on Re-decentralizing Social Nets www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8uq... MarkM on Geeks Bearing Gifts youtube.com/watch?v=KoM_aCuFk1w

Consider: a compile-to-JavaScript language that is JavaScript except typeof 3.14 == "number" and typeof 2 == "bigint".

Dear @epopt.bsky.social,

It appears I am building a database.

Run a command, display the output, and capture the output in the Mac pastebin: … | tee >(pbcopy)

I didn't know if @marthawells.com knew about this Easter egg that Alexander Skarsgård snuck into the #murderbot TV series!

I know just enough Japanese I think... roses are red ao is blue midori is green but ao is too

This is the worst possible time to announce this, but: I'm looking for a new job! ✨ If you (or someone you know) is looking to hire, I love software engineering, design (IxD and UI), and electrical engineering.

Recently, there have been several stick-ups and one Axe murder (in the first Degree). Management has made no Secret of the need to increase security, but still haven’t found the Right Guard. Finding themselves underarmed, the crime wave continues to roll on.

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

If you're interested in funding or helping us find funding for a Discord replacement that's federated and end-to-end encrypted, we're interested in implementing that at @spritelyinst.bsky.social We have the skills and underlying tech, but we need resources to fund it. Feel free to reach out.

My friend @kriskowal.com just released Yay! In his words, it's "more than JSON, less than YAML, and better for it" – and exactly what I'm looking for. kriskowal.com/yay

An abomination has escaped the lab. kriskowal.com/yay