wasm’ers rise up

gen z (probably?) doesn’t remember having to look up the new 2002 horror film, feardotcom, by navigating to feardotcom dot com

hard agree on all of these, & with the implication of 6 that “no ambient platform deps can be imported” (e.g. you can’t import “node:fs” without declaring it as a dependency)

“there, it’s done, what do you think” as the camera pans over all of the interociter parts on the ground (via mst3k: the movie)

a research q: how many times has the pendulum swung between thick clients and thick servers in computing? examples would be like: time-sharing moving to workstations, server-rendered websites moving to react/client rendered websites (and back), etc etc

I know this can sound kind of silly at a time like this, but doing a war without congressional authorization is ample grounds for impeachment

wow, github truncates file display after 1000 lines now? what a terrible idea!

I think if I were to summarize “what’s interesting about MCP” it would be that it there’s a kernel of useful interfaces that a lot of people have agreed to implement— both in client applications and server providers. It started as “close enough to the right thing” that it gained adoption and grew.

having one of those days where “popping the stack” on my todo list seems to push two new items onto the stack

JSPI, the wasm JavaScript Promise Integration proposal, is now at phase 4: github.com/WebAssembly/... That means it is considered fully standardized. JSPI lets wasm call JS APIs that return a Promise. The wasm awaits it. It is still behind a flag in most browsers, but hopefully not for long!

huh when i open up my 401k website it just starts playing wiz khalifa’s “see you again”, is this normal

well, I just caught up on the news and: jfc

I absolutely loved this talk. It's the endpoint of "programming as theory-building" – by turning software engineering into a rogue-like, the durable product of development is a better theory of how to solve the problem at hand. www.hytradboi.com/2025/03580e1...

so, ICYMI, I've been pushing along a (spec-compliant! slow!) wasm interpreter here: github.com/chrisdickins... I've gotten a lot of the structure incorrect. (quelle surprise!) Part one is to start to put cut points between "machine" and "runtime". So I'm identifying organelles of a Wasm runtime.

Just watched Sen King's speech on the Senate floor - thank you for that! Every American should hear this. #CourageIsContagious youtu.be/g2ptQFOi9Pg

I had a thought last night about writing a follow-up to "understanding wasm": "building wasm" which would take a comparative look at how wasm runtimes are structured, maybe trying to link that back to VM design texts, etc

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TIL that the term "pie in the sky" comes from an IWW song also that it was sung to counter the salvation army (!!) who would show up to counter-protest at strikes (!!!)

🚀 Chicory 1.1.0 is here! 🚀 This release brings SIMD support, improved Android compatibility (API 28+), and overall performance boosts! ⚡ Read more: 🔗 chicory.dev/blog/chicory... #WebAssembly #Java #Chicory #wasm

whoda thunk that getting blood drawn would knock you out. (me. ida thunk. i almost thunked right onto the floor, in fact)

I'm always down for chain reaction, a film where keanu just really needs to upload something important to the internet

only a little sad that (neo-)vim doesn't have a parallel to ":wq" for touching a file in-place to retrigger a build (":ew!")

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carping for a second: typescript-lsp includes a formatter (great! good! ok!); typescript-lsp disagrees with prettier on some indentation (okay! fine! alright!); typescript-lsp doesn't seem to expose a way to call its formatter from the command line (terrible! awful! for the love of god, montresor!)

This is what the dylibso team and I have been working on: a safe, portable way to install tools that Claude and other MCP clients can use. Quickly and confidently installing tools from a number of different authors and immediately putting them to use in a Claude session has been eye-opening.

one year (and a half) of working in wasm has made me keenly aware of the difference between address space and committed memory. especially the ease with which you can hit address space limits because of guard pages.

might've just run into a crashing bug in node v22 around worker_threads and/or ESM and/or WASI and/or instrumentation hooks (how's that for surface area?) I'll try to create a reproducible test tomorrow. Mostly segfaults, but got one tcache_thread_shutdown() error from glibc!

if i could add one thing to bash, it would be to add a "set -4" which would interpret "echo 4?" as "echo $?" instead of me having to re-run the previous command (I know, I know, it should be in my PS1, but.)

hello it's me your CEO texting from a number you've never seen, I need 46 gas station hot dogs for an important business deal no time to explain why

okay, so using `--experimental-strip-types` with node v22+ is UNREASONABLY nice

my shameful secret: I built a gaming PC in 2021 so that I could exclusively play remastered editions of games I enjoyed in 1998 (starcraft 1, age of empires 1 & 2, diablo 2)

Matteo continues to put out clear, informational explanations about core platform architecture concepts. (I'm pretty animated by HTTP caching – designing around caching strategies was pretty fundamental to my experience at npm. You can do some pretty nifty stuff with modern CDNs these days, too!)

I am catching up on the #nodejs primordials discussion (for research into something else), and – at the risk of turning over some still-hot coals – man, it sure seems like folks wish node didn't have a javascript component!

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains. (I am sure someone else already got Brainiac, but just in case, here I am, filling that in)

I need a "you're killing me, buster" banner for deno 2

we're hosting the @extism.bsky.social #Dylibso office hours in 30 minutes, join us discord.com/events/10111...

here's a question for y'all– if you had an open source project and were interested in generating benchmarks over time for it –possibly triggered on cron or git push– what would you reach for? (I *think* I have an answer but I'm really hoping someone else has a better one.)

spent last friday digging into how componentize-py’s support for wasm shared libs, though documenting this is like holding on to wet spaghetti trivia: - shared modules import memory, tables, and “offset” globals - the stack is shadowed onto that shared mem - compy synthesizes the main module

officially binned my twitter account today. I had kept it around in not-fully-live mode because it felt like I had a network of support there–and going into 2023 it felt a little scary to give that up. (Twitter was a better linkedin than linkedin, at least for a while!)

hyperlight is seriously impressive – 5ms to spin up, run, and teardown a vm. (and, assuming you're on an x86_64 machine, it's really straightforward to build and get running.) github.com/hyperlight-d...

TIL about JSON.rawJSON (developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...) – handy for de/serializing bigints in JS!

using the clacky keyboard on my windows pc to program always puts me in the mindset of the megaman x intro “this commit possesses great risks and great possibilities. i can only hope for the best. september 18, 20XX”

gonna start a fencing team called "chesterton's fencers" our motto will be "foiled again"

spotify’s x deejay: “alright chris. comin’ up next i want you to chill. this playlist is gonna be more chill than you ever thought possible. if you can imagine that. sit back and chill” x: “anyway here’s elliott smith”

*bene gesserit voice* any status updates on this ticket?

proposal: extend “midwestern” terminology. east coast = “minwestern”, west coast = “maxwestern”

[Laurie Anderson voice]: It was American cheese. Made in America. When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force.

honestly, same

if you haven’t watched motion-smoothed “the mummy returns” on a hotel tv, can you really say you’ve *seen* the mummy returns i posit: no

charlie day would make a pretty good 2020’s columbo.