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  lol i have been implementing javascript for more than 15 years and i just learned that -7 % 7 equals... negative zero

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  it is never appropriate to write "i asked an llm and this is what it said:" either the listener uses llms, in which case they can use an llm on their side, or they don't want to use llms, in which case inflicting llm text on them is rude and inconsiderate

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@lemonde/117473361791836078 this is one part of being european that i will never understand. y u poison urself

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  how are we in twuble digits of october already

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  Olivier Melançon's PhD defense slides, on static basic block versioning: https://olimel.net/static/share/defense_slides.html

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  did we make the thread cancellation cancellation thread yet

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  please do not revoke my longjmp license, i need it to feed my family

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  blessing the timeline

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  RE: https://social.spejset.org/@amanda/117492030574383728 spicy take

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  why yes, we stock both genders

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  favorite emacs key prefix

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  not letting the mosquito drink is stingy. you have lots of blood

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  what is your median number of books ordered but not yet received

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  the ongoing existence of cpython and the under-resourcing of pypy is baffling to me

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  they call it a low-level virtual machine because virtual instructions are close to machine instructions the virtual instruction: sitofp the machine instructions: https://godbolt.org/z/qfbGErns3

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  can't help getting astrology × audiophile vibes from llm enthusiasts: "oh no honey you can't use opus 4.8, it's so nerfed, try glm-5.2 or the codex 5.5, they have a warm gemini sound, very well rounded on details and tone. but don't use google's gemini models, they are really leos, they have good treble response but you can't trust their mid-range"

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  interesting programming language implementation technique https://github.com/mnapoli/vibephp

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  what a world https://blog.himanshuanand.com/2026/05/the-90-day-disclosure-policy-is-dead/

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  new bloggery, in which our protagonist dreams of laurels https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/12/17/in-which-our-protagonist-dreams-of-laurels

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  ex-boxing: neither nan nor nun https://medium.com/@kannanvijayan/exboxing-bridging-the-divide-between-tag-boxing-and-nan-boxing-07e39840e0ca (via @dysfun)

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  new bloggery: it's alive, it's alive! ~~ https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/04/09/wastrel-milestone-full-hoot-support-with-generational-gc-as-a-treat

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  my favorite software complexity metric: the number of data structures with "context" or "environment" in their name

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  well, what the hell, artemis seems to be off. godspeed, you lunatics

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  "At a conference talk I watched a speaker present a quote and article attributed to me which never existed" omg https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess

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  well. after implementing weak maps and refs, wastrel compilation of the hoot repl seems to work. some trimming needed to make backtraces not show frames that are part of the implementation, and polish as always, but i gasped audibly when it first gave me a prompt!

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  honestly everyone over 35 needs someone in their life to let them know if they post cringe

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  blogging to arxiv is a massive flex https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.10181

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  steel train bridge on rollers to allow for expansion

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  new bloggery: the value of a performance oracle https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/04/07/the-value-of-a-performance-oracle

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  zomg a neighbor loaned my 7yo tintin au congo and my kid read it; europe is fine and all but this shit would not fly in the usa i grew up in