JF Bastien

All this AI stuff is making it so that coding is actually becoming a craft now.

Navier-Stokastic-Parrot

OMG i live in japan and love signage can you please tell me what grocery store this is in!!! i will go see it at some point (DMs are ok too!!) see also: a grocery store sign i went to see two years ago

When visiting Japan, please respect local customs and laws. 🙇 Watermelon law is serious.

For all the recent supply chain security attacks, I find it fascinating that C++’s standard package manager hasn’t been attacked. Tells you a lot that nobody is criticizing C++’s security right now!

As a systems & compiler geek, I like finding and fixing inefficiencies. We stumbled upon neat low-lying fruit in VLMs: they keep paying for the same background over and over. We got huge speedups, 14.9–35.9×! Website: vlmaxxi.ng Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2605.03351 Code: github.com/jfbastien/VL...

We told them story points are for complexity, and time is measured in T-shirt sizes.

Brutal move from the evangelization strike force.

France: 𝒜𝓅𝓅𝑒𝓁𝓁𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒹’𝑜𝓇𝒾𝑔𝒾𝓃𝑒 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓉𝑒́𝑔𝑒́𝑒 Japan: Just so you know… this one’s gonna STINK (it’s really good)

What is shoulder Bjarne whispering in my ear?

The entire world is running out of RAM and for once it’s not Chrome’s fault. 🙏

MTG player 🤝 C++ dev getting rid of UB

a clique of graph theorists

AGI: Aspartame General Intelligence

Having some retro-TUI fun in preparation for my NDC TechTown talk at the end of the month.

Clode Caude

I had a dream: AInux • Packages are prompts • Install = generate + test + sandbox locally • Output = unique binary tuned to you No apt. Just prompts. Shipping tarballs? Shipping intent!

When are they rewriting Unix `tee` in Rust? It’s only 350 lines of code. 🦀 Seems to me like the easiest way to achieve memory safe tee everywhere. 🙃

Who called it a sail ship and not mast transit?

How do you figure out which Belgian beer is your favorite? You do abbey testing! 🍺

discourse.llvm.org/t/2025-asial... AsiaLLVM agenda is out!! It looks like it’s going to be good!

Ok I found a HUGE plot hole: does Jesus ever even use the gold, frankincense and myrrh?!?

日本語学習者が『を』を見た瞬間──『をぉ……』

`make` and `cmake` have `ache` in common. Coincidence?

Student travel grants for AsiaLLVM are available. This is an opportunity to meet LLVM developers from across the LLVM community in person, and discuss compiler development in Tokyo. Deadline is March 31. See post for details. discourse.llvm.org/t/2025-asial...

Is…. Wikipedia just casually foreshadowing a prophecy about DOGE… ? 👀

C++26 is feature complete, read all about it here: www.reddit.com/r/cpp/commen...

It's going to take a bit more time for the collaborative trip report to make r/cpp, so here's an explanation on what happened with C++ profiles, their relevance to safety/security, and why this is a great outcome for quality of the feature and speed of delivery.

Join our Tokyo C++ Meetup on “Abstractions for Low-Level Programming”, featuring @lefticus.bsky.social ! Learn how to balance performance & complexity and more. ✅ Date & Time: February 20, 2025, 6:30-8:30 pm (JST) 👋 RSVP by February 13th at 12 pm! peatix.com/event/4273915

C++’s legacy is C. One hard aspect is how file-based its build model is. It tried to change with modules, but arguably isn’t there. But now, C++ is considering how to fix many issues including security and will introduce an enterprise ready solution: - pro files - semipro files - free tier files

Baking pro-tip for PL enthusiasts: put some chicken stock in your bread recipe, it’ll help the bread rise. See, it’s the coq proof assistant.

Java: write once, run anywhere. Me: wrong once, run anywhere.

Went to a Louise Bourgeois exhibit. Ouch.

Me, to wife: you ready for this? I don't think you're ready... OK here goes... gremolatte. It's a latte, but with chopped parsley, lemon zest, and garlic. Wife: WHY ARE YOU... WHY??? WHY TELL ME THIS?

I think my 7 year old might be a dork. 🤓🎄

Tie your seatbelt. Tie your cigarette.

This store, wishing us “what a furry Christmas”, has an IKEA pop-up store with a bucket full of BLÅHAJs, ¥999 each (less than $10). I will not be taking questions.

You know how we all have a friend (call them “X”) who says stuff, and then a friend chat titled “shit X says” ? @blelbach.bsky.social is friend X. 🤭

Fuji is pretty. 🗻

@tabatkins.com you should be friends with @hanicka.net she’s cool and also makes serious fun of Bryce (who is still stuck in the bad place).

Bluesky is starting to feel like ye olde twttr