Interesting defense against Spectre security vulnerabilities

Reebok website is open-minded

That’s a damn good bodega cat.

Wikipedia turns 25 today! 🎂📚 To celebrate, we’re looking back at its baby pictures—some of the earliest captures of the site, preserved in the #WaybackMachine. Take a nostalgic peek at early Wikipedia ⤵️ web.archive.org/web/20030301... #WikipediaDay #Wikipedia25 @wikipedia.org

WasmGC is coming to GraalWasm, unlocking the power of JVM garbage collectors for #WebAssembly! This will also get GraalWasm a lot closer to implementing the full Wasm 3.0 spec. Join @ssmith.bsky.social and me at @jfokus.se next month to learn more: www.jfokus.se/talks.html?s...

Hole was better than Nirvana

Total musical chaos, nonetheless brilliant www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc-A...

signedpage.com/collections/... There is a new place to get a signed Robin Hobb book, thanks to Shawn Speakman and the Signed Page. Purchase the book and request an autograph. I will go to the warehouse and from there, Shawn ships to you. Thank you Shawn,

Lots of people with takes about Dan Wang's recent post, but here's a niche response to the bit in the picture: No, do not stop halfway through Piranesi. Clarke's genius is shown exactly in how the second half grounds the first in reality, and builds a synthesis.

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The Bun JS runtime is very nice for reproducing Safari problems (JS and/or wasm) without a full WebKit browser: github.com/emscripten-c...

We have a NEW demo up on Steam that has an updated Procedural Survival world and also allows you to play one "Adventure" world, IsleOfVox! See which you like better and let us know :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wicM...

Safari 26.2 is out, which fixes wasm exceptions: github.com/emscripten-c... Looks like it has some other wasm improvements too, like JS String Builtins (important for GC languages): developer.apple.com/documentatio... Nice work!

Nice to see a human defeat a top chess engine for once...

You may want to enable SIMD in wasm projects (if you are targeting new-enough browsers/VMs). Just adding -msimd128 to clang/emcc/etc. will do LLVM autovectorization, which turns out is quite good on wasm: github.com/emscripten-c... A few nice benchmark speedups there, some unexpected.

So if you're going to be doomscrolling today, at least make it a journey through decades of community creativity that helped shaped gaming as we know it. Maybe something you made is in here? doomscroll.cx

Binaryen, the WebAssembly optimizer toolchain project, is now listed on the wasm website's features page: webassembly.org/features/ As mentioned there, it has support for all standardized features (and many in-progress ones)

wild. not what anyone would have predicted as the endgame for a JS runtime

Holy shit, looks like in the right combination* WebNN inference on GPU is over 5x faster than WebGPU 🤯 Still looking for the catch, in all my previous experiments it was *slower* WebGPU, and still happens if any conditions below are not met. This is all hightly unstable but exciting!

In case you didn't notice, #WebGPU is most likely available in your browser now!

10 minutes of music that feel like 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkHV...

Seriously considering putting a bounty on x86-64 support for copy.sh/v86: github.com/copy/v86/iss... A proper modern JITting emulator on the Web platform (including non-jailbroken iOS) would be amazing! I'm amazed how fast the jitcode can be, even with softmmu.

This week on the blog: Hoplites! We're taking a crack at explaining the long-running debate over the nature and significance of the ancient Greek heavy infantryman, the hoplite, and the phalanx in which he (mostly) fought. acoup.blog/2025/11/14/c...

Unreal Tournament can now be played IN A BROWSER dos.zone/mp/?lobby=ut Along with other late 90s PC FPS classics but yeah. UT99 in a browser window... just fantastic. Thanks to the r/LGR subreddit for letting me know about it!

The ending to A House of Dynamite (2025) could have been a lot better (and without changing the movie's message) kripken.github.io/blog/movies/...

Emscripten 4.0.19 is out! 🎉 github.com/emscripten-c... A major improvement for dynamic linking landed: the main module is built statically, without relocation overhead, making it smaller and faster. Only dynamic libraries now have relocation overhead. This makes dynamic linking much more useful 🚀

Reverse engineering is where you delete the repo

Some more cool JS Engine bugs found by Big Sleep were fixed in yesterday's Apple security updates: support.apple.com/en-us/125632 Technical details will be available soon at issuetracker.google.com/issues?q=com...

current state: dumping the wasm after each wasm-opt pass to find where things go wrong the size of each such wasm file: 257 MB

Really proud of how well wasm-reduce simplified a testcase today: github.com/WebAssembly/... 91,440 bytes into just 120, in a few minutes, and even though it is a hanging testcase

This is a very nice blog post because it is not afraid to explain hard work in terms of simple concepts. go.dev/blog/greente...

it has been a while, but whoo, new bloggery: "wastrel, a profligate implementation of webassembly" https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/10/30/wastrel-a-profligate-implementation-of-webassembly

Philosophers throwing shade

please enjoy: my Wasm-hosted, Wasm-targeting build of Clang/Clang++/LLD: a self-contained, 25 MiB (gzipped) pure function www.npmjs.com/package/@yow...

New Futurama season had ups and downs, but the last episode was one of their best ever

“I once saw a post online placing bets on who would likely deliver their book first (George R.R. Martin, Patrick Rothfuss or yours truly). I had the longest odds.” Interview with @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social www.grimdarkmagazine.com/interview-wi... @torbooks.bsky.social @orbitbooksuk.bsky.social

from Merlijn Sebrechts in Ghent: #webassembly PhD position open! Looking for someone who wants to use WebAssembly to make it easier to develop tamper-resistant software. From Bare Metal to Bytecode: Energy Efficient TEE HAL with WebAssembly: www.imec-int.com/en/work-at-i...

You are wondering if #Spring could run in a #WebAssembly engine like the one in your browser? The GraalVM team did it with Web Image. You don't believe me? Check the related demo graalvm.github.io/graalvm-demo... and the Devoxx talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=uefc... !

Still looking for a job. I'm leaning to things like intersection of native and JavaScript, runtimes, developer tooling, browsers, WebAssembly, web security.

The WebAssembly Exceptions problem with Safari/WebKit may have been fixed: github.com/emscripten-c... (at least on trunk)

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

When is a xenomorph NOT a xenomorph? Three possible reasons for Alien: Earth's large break with the past: kripken.github.io/blog/scifi/2...

everyone should checkout Messenger by Abeto. it's a free browser game where ur just a little delivery kid on a little planet! messenger.abeto.co

Safe in the sandbox... blog.cloudflare.com/safe-in-the-...

This whole show could have been a Black Mirror episode

Bluesky doesn't have an algorithm, but sometimes serendipity makes it seem like it does

With ✨Swift 6.2 ✨, you can now target WebAssembly, including WASI support. Get started here: www.swift.org/documentatio... #Wasm

I got nerd-sniped 🤓 by the very Andreas Rossberg into creating a <wasm-compat> custom element that shows the various #Wasm features and the many #WebAssembly engines' compatibility with those features. <wasm-compat wasm-feature="bigInt"></wasm-compat> webassembly.org/news/2025-09....

"Secure Lab" lmao