Andy Wingo
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Andy Wingo
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https://wingolog.org | a work in progress | niche content | truthiness is couthiness

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i am a bit of a broken record about this BUT if you
1. live outside the USA, and
2. are viscerally revolted by ICE, then:

there is almost certainly something similar happening where you live, and which you are well-placed to take action against: electorally, in your day-to-day conversations […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Reposted by Andy Wingo
Spotted today in a freezing cold outdoor toilet block that smelled of old cigarettes
November 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
web surfers beware, the hunting season for year-end roundups opens next week
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
good morning. please enjoy a very pure web page: http://hijinks.com/
Hijinks Internet Services
hijinks.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Reposted by Andy Wingo
“What began as an effort to identify individual officers has evolved into a far more ambitious accountability tool. Soon, organizers say, every incident will be mapped to who was there, which ICE facility or federal agency they came from, what vehicle they used, who led the team, and how many […]
Original post on mastodon.online
mastodon.online
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
mamdani has big captain carrot energy
November 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
“demand for oracle credit default swaps surges” is something that normally would delight me, which is why it delights me
November 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
my timeline keeps showing me sensible takes on the unwrapocalypse, so i am learning over time the shape of the bad discourse, like identifying an elephant by touch
November 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
this is a fun bug: strictly granting permissions to write memory only to an explicit subset of memory requires LD_BIND_NOW so that lazy symbol resolution doesn't cause GOT writes https://issues.chromium.org/issues/428179540
Chromium
issues.chromium.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
i would like to purchase a linux reference, in book form, for interfaces added in the last 10 years: user namespaces, pkeys, etc. does this exist?
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
my solar installation gets wired up tomorrow!! (panels have been on the roof for a while) me me me me so excited,,
November 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
for pl people of a certain age, we all dallied with rust 10 years ago, but now that we have to work in it, it’s awkward but we make it work
November 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
"leap tiering" sounds way cooler than "hey fam let's make sure all instances of a closure use the same code" https://issues.chromium.org/issues/42204201
Chromium
issues.chromium.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
new bloggery: a look back on the last couple years of developments in v8's garbage collector

https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/11/13/the-last-couple-years-in-v8s-garbage-collector
the last couple years in v8's garbage collector — wingolog
wingolog: article: the last couple years in v8's garbage collector
wingolog.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
my god, the things i type into this hole
November 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
conservative stack stanning is when both directions of stack growth are valid; big ups to the stack pointer (possibly)
November 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
a v8 design doc on handling of generational weak references and finalizers : https://docs.google.com/document/d/10u7VbYCVcYBFsyRf5AZ2TV7_2emCNL6JTwt8Z9AHUmA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.2hwev1wkunwc

interesting that flutter wasm/js interactions forced v8's hand into implementing weak ref handling in […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
a delightful post from another member in good standing of the hans boehm appreciation society https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2025/async_and_finaliser_deadlocks.html
Laurence Tratt: Async and Finaliser Deadlocks
tratt.net
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
mastodon should fix the bug where typos are invisible in the editing box but obvious on the timeline
November 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
November 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
in these days of coding agents and what-not, i often think of gerald sussman's comment that these days one does not constructively build systems from known parts, that one instead does basic science on the functionality of foreign libraries ( […]
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mastodon.social
November 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
i am willing to accept that abseil's locks perform well (https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/synchronization/mutex.cc) but i am not willing to accept 3000 lines of implementation into any project i maintain
abseil-cpp/absl/synchronization/mutex.cc at master · abseil/abseil-cpp
Abseil Common Libraries (C++). Contribute to abseil/abseil-cpp development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
November 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM