Bread, beans, programming languages; fmr Chief Potato; he/him; cover photo credit xkcd proud owner of shru.gg mastodon.social/@tekknolagi

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Joined March 2010
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six months ago, the city threatened to charge me with a misdemeanor if I didn't remove this bench. I put the bench out because it's at the top of a very steep hill; dozens of people rest here every day. the original bench was seized but I now have a permit and new bench. 🥳
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me: this seems like a simple change also me: sitting here and comparing disassembly because things now crash
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Stan Lo won Ruby Prize 2025. I know his hard work and enthusiasm, and he’s one of the great people who influenced me. Congratulations! #rubyworld
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Excited to share that I became a Ruby committer today! A 10year goal since RubyKaigi 2015. Huge thanks to @tekknolagi for the JIT mentorship and nomination, @k0kubun for years of guidance, and everyone who supported me along the way. Looking forward to improving Ruby and its DX!
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The ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation (PEPM'26), co-located with POPL'26 in Rennes, France is calling for papers! Submission deadline: Friday 24 Oct 2025 popl26.sigplan.org/home/pepm…
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A type system? No no no no. Why would you go after types? If you show people types, they'll ask "how expressive?" -- and it will never be enough. The lang that was the Java Script killer becomes another Elm. But if your lang has no types, you can say it's pre-types -- and it's a potential pure play.
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Fabio @fniephaus will introduce Web Image, a new preview feature of GraalVM that enables compiling applications into efficient Wasm modules, including use cases and live demos. We'll also look at GraalWasm, a new embeddable Wasm runtime for Java. m.devoxx.com/events/dvbe25/t…
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The worst trend in journalism is sucking up to Trump. The second worst trend is "scrollytelling", where you scroll for three days before finding the lede
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imagine having a job like "animal conservationist" your entire life and becoming a household name and a pop culture mainstay for it. a legend, an inspiration
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
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Replies like "can this be solved through better tooling? better models? better pre-human PR automation?" No. Jesus Christ, No. The solution is school. An education. Learning something. School. Its school.
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The bullshit continues. Was told I couldn't opt out of facial scan when boarding *while the screen above the gate agent was saying otherwise*. After a short argument I ended up being rushed through sans photo but it was embarrassing. Holy moly. Hey @SAS please get it together
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I have always loved working with the smartest people from all over the world. they came to work for American companies, bringing energy and ideas. they become American. their children are born American. they fuel our economic engine and make America great
JUST IN: Trump to impose $100,000 fee on H-1B visas
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I found GIL. Should I remove it?
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President Biden is right. Political satire is one of the oldest and most important forms of free speech. It challenges those in power while using humor to draw more people in to the discussion. That’s why people in influential positions have always targeted it for censorship.
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bin/qjs benchmarkData/richards.js: /home/pizlo/Programs/llvm-project-deluge-5/pizfix: 4.9321 += 0.17% /home/pizlo/Programs/llvm-project-deluge-2/pizfix: 0.7812 += 0.32% 6.313338x faster Vive l'interprétation abstraite!
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Hey @JetBlue it's been 30 minutes since my brother got off the plane and the carousel still hasn't started. What's going on? B6 615
Always be walking around the compiler
One of my core engineering beliefs is that if you are building something you should always be walking around the app vickiboykis.com/2025/09/09/w…
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