Notices by Andrew Kelley (andrewrk@mastodon.social)

fuck war

The domains in which a programming language is popular influences the ecosystem. I'm deeply grateful to Jarred and Anthropic for giving Zig communities a chance to reroll for something other than LLMs. Hoping for better than a nat 1 next time

we chillin in portland this weekend 🌞

Matthew Lugg (@mlugg) landed a 30,000 line patchset into the Zig compiler today.

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-03-10

"don't talk about politics" hits differently when the people saying it live in a different U.S. state as you, and are actively supporting the masked, armed thugs invading your city and hurting your neighbors and family members

it feels like being kicked while you're down and told to just shut the fuck up, by the people you thought were your friends

we've built our global economy on the premise that software has a certain bar of quality, which as it turns out was based only on the goodwill of early enthusiast programmers.

now that the market has caught up and erased the negotiation power software engineers once enjoyed, the world is careening head first into a harsh reality of bug-ridden, adversarial software at odds with everyday life.

free software is still our north star. it's more important than ever.

I just remembered that when writing C++ you can't really cut and paste code without causing bugs, lmao

it's been half a decade since I've had to worry about that

Dear NetBSD community: please implement futexes so that I don't have to use this ungodly userspace implementation based on _lwp_park and _lwp_unpark

I accidentally derailed #musl by mentioning dishwashers and they're still talking about them 24 hours later 😅

@wingo reasonable concern, if you're running the compiler in a trusted environment against untrusted code.

Not necessarily because LLVM is implemented in C++, but because the project declares security a non-goal for the compiler code (according to your link)

@wingo I completely agree - I think they should choose to have security as a goal also for the compiler pipeline

@miki would you mind providing a link to the respective issue?

edit: found it here: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/1797

In this modern era of acquisitions, weak antitrust regulations, and platform capitalism leading to extreme concentrations of wealth, non-profits remain a bastion defending what remains of the commons.

https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/

@regehr I recognize the profile pic, same dude sent garbage our way too

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/25974

can't believe it's 2025 and people are programming in memory unsafe languages like Rust and Go when Fil-C exists

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75371

😡 😡

they really just calculate a wishful integer and then make a blocking recvmsg

why does everybody gotta make their text boxes do weird shit

I'm constantly fighting against:
- alt tabbing to reference a number and coming back and finding the selection cursor now selecting all
- select all not letting me move the cursor to the end
- copy paste being disabled for no reason whatsoever
- trying to click to move the selection copies to my clipboard, overwriting the contents that I was going to paste at that position
- insertion of digits that I didn't enter

jesus christ

Carmen already winning by a lot

@codinghorror @aral my website does not have cookie banners but yours does

@codinghorror @aral

you make money from ads on stack exchange so you are biased in the conversation.

switch business models to be ad-free and then I want to hear your perspective after that.