Notices by Andy Wingo (wingo@mastodon.social)

afaiu these layoffs affect mozilla _foundation_ staff; not related to _corporation_ staff, the part of mozilla that makes firefox
https://w3c.social/@tink/113453822004851431

finally deleted my twittr

with regards to RMS. he is a creep. did some good things in the past. built the fsf around himself, not around free software; there was overlap in the past but not any more, for a decade at least, as the fsf is just an ineffective advocacy org that does no work. i no longer think about rms or his org and you should not either. shun and let wither.

added #logging to my site’s #framework this afternoon

new takes from the take factory: fedi is for losers https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/09/24/fedi-is-for-losers

parce que ils sont fish

tfw it is july and you see a picture of someone in a sweater. does not compute

i have been using gdb for more than 20 years and just now got around to enabling persistent history. https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/07/04/enable-persistent-history-in-gdb
this public service message was brought to you by chairman mao. i was going to speak but first i had to investigate #praxis https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_11.htm

bear with me but i broke down and read the man or bear article everyone has been sharing and it really is lovely, the down-to-earth text punctuated with the author's photos that exude joy and contentedness; a+ content https://bikepacking.com/plog/man-or-bear-debate/

@baconandcoconut reasonably happy with the framework 13 amd https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/02/16/guix-on-the-framework-13-amd

as a non-rustacean i am happy for rust’s success but am also pleased for the teacher’s pet to be taken down a notch
https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/

risible lack of detail. if there were something there there, it would be front and center https://openssf.org/blog/2024/04/15/open-source-security-openssf-and-openjs-foundations-issue-alert-for-social-engineering-takeovers-of-open-source-projects/

[at the bar]
­– Excuse me, I can't help but notice you were using the "make" command-line tool
– ❓
– You know, I had a part in that.
– 😍
– You know the -j option?
– 🤓
­– I did the part where it gives you a verbose error, repeated verbosely for each of your cpu cores
– 🤨
– Also the part where it assumes you have infinite cores
– 🤬
– 😎

via @asb, the c++ iceberg: https://fouronnes.github.io/cppiceberg/

i have been developing on (gnu/)linux for, um, a long time now, and i just now learned about /usr/bin/env -S https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/env-invocation.html#g_t_002dS_002f_002d_002dsplit_002dstring-usage-in-scripts

thanks to a grant from nlnet / ngi zero core, i get to carve out some work time later this year to hack on the whippet garbage collector! more on this when i find how to schedule it, but i am really looking forward to the hack. https://nlnet.nl/project/Whippet/

a tiny tale of gnarly names https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/01/11/micro-macro-story-time

typography is my passion

i think a pretty ideal blog comment system is, the blog runs its own fediverse node. each post gets a toot. people can reply and hopefully read replies, though we know that fedi has a reply-visibility problem. if the blog boosts a toot reply, it can appear below the original article as a comment

coordinated omission: when handling all requests complete in 1ms except one in every 1000 which takes 1s, p99 latency is 980ms, not 1ms https://groups.google.com/g/mechanical-sympathy/c/icNZJejUHfE?pli=1