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

The WebAssembly 3.0 spec is complete! webassembly.org/news/2025-09... This includes major features like GC, 64-bit memories, exceptions, and tail calls.

#GraalVM 25 is out! 🚀 Exciting updates for #GraalPy, #GraalJS, and #GraalWasm — plus our first preview of #WebAssembly compilation!

Gonna start a Mastodon cover band and name it Bluesky

Number of days since I fixed a relative's problem by telling them to reboot their device: 0

Binaryen, the wasm optimizer project, released version 124: github.com/WebAssembly/... Many changes here, including support for several new wasm features: * Compilation Hints and Branch Hinting * Stack Switching * Custom Descriptors & many new wasm-opt optimizations

It's been six years, but it turns out I still feel as strongly as ever. ...about how Game of Thrones ended. Here is my alternate version and analysis

Why is everyone from The Matrix to Black Mirror to Alien: Earth obsessed with the migration of souls?

I saw a 260 MB wasm file today (real, but unoptimized)

“you’ve reached your monthly article limit” but it shows up every time you try to write

QEMU 10.1 adds experimental Wasm support using Emscripten wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/10.1

At this point I'm watching Alien: Earth mainly for the eyeball-creature

I finally did it: I guessed the murderer in an Agatha Christie novel

what if spam folder but for irl interactions

I have an open position on my team. Looking for experience with native application development on Windows/Win32 and good C++ skills. Knowledge of macOS/Linux development a plus, as is experience with Rust. Remote work possible in a lot of EU countries + US & Canada. www.mozilla.org/en-US/career...

3 episodes in... and I'm still not sure about Alien: Earth

Found a place where wasm-merge (merge multiple wasm files into one) was running into quadratic time: github.com/WebAssembly/... That should make it much faster on large workloads.

"What if [AI is] just good enough, useful to many without being revolutionary?" I agreed with almost all the points right up to here. It seems implausible to me that AI stalls at "good enough." That doesn't mean I think things will be great, or that I think "revolutionary" is near. My reasoning: