Notices by Andy Wingo (wingo@mastodon.social)

finally installing mechanical ventilation at home (https://www.cse.org.uk/advice/mechanical-ventilation-with-heat-recovery/), which means lots of ducts. makes me wonder if there is some kind of tape that works well on ducts

i think it is very sweet and wholesome that there is a wired article about hash tables
https://www.wired.com/story/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture/

oh my god hejlsberg pitches type-checking as enabling AI. he's not wrong, but this is where we are at now

daycare provider sick, construction at home, so i walk to town with the 2yo for lunch. she falls asleep before the food arrives 😂

i accept that jujitsu may be better than git — though i do not know yet — but it can’t help but be more complex

apparently the jujitsu version control system has multiple “backends”. this does not make me want to learn it

tracepoints: gnarly but worth it

https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/02/14/tracepoints-gnarly-but-worth-it

@cwebber

there is probably a nonempty set of free software developers that would never post a reaction gif. not because cringe; rather, out of caution with respect to the gif patent

new bloggery, in which i am stumped by generational garbage collection https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/02/09/baffled-by-generational-garbage-collection

i made a bug that for years caused guix systems to boot with a silly error message and someone made a sticker out of it

the important thing is to sometimes put the tests in "tests" and other times in "test"

since last week i have found a dozen accidentally quadratic bugs in my code
i am a professional programmer la la la

going to fosdem this weekend, hmu if you want to chat, or catch my talk on the whippet gc library on sunday ~~~ https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6066-the-whippet-embeddable-garbage-collection-library/

as befits their status as works of speculative fiction, the most appropriate venue for new standards is https://archiveofourown.org/

@janneke @freedominternet @angrynerdspodcast i use fastmail. they do sieve. they have been fine for me

hacking on some kinds of software keeps you humble. on others it makes you feel like a god. for a given project, let the difference between the two be known as its dynamic range. what project have you worked on that has the most dynamic range and why is it a garbage collector?

new bloggery, on human rights and human wrongs https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/01/21/here-we-go-again

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a function in possession of ten parameters, must be in want of an eleventh.

@daviwil i thought that was raymond library