Chris Dickinson

ideas got power

wasm’ers rise up

gen z (probably?) doesn’t remember having to look up the new 2002 horror film, feardotcom, by navigating to feardotcom dot com

hard agree on all of these, & with the implication of 6 that “no ambient platform deps can be imported” (e.g. you can’t import “node:fs” without declaring it as a dependency)

“there, it’s done, what do you think” as the camera pans over all of the interociter parts on the ground (via mst3k: the movie)

a research q: how many times has the pendulum swung between thick clients and thick servers in computing? examples would be like: time-sharing moving to workstations, server-rendered websites moving to react/client rendered websites (and back), etc etc

I know this can sound kind of silly at a time like this, but doing a war without congressional authorization is ample grounds for impeachment

having one of those days where “popping the stack” on my todo list seems to push two new items onto the stack

JSPI, the wasm JavaScript Promise Integration proposal, is now at phase 4: github.com/WebAssembly/... That means it is considered fully standardized. JSPI lets wasm call JS APIs that return a Promise. The wasm awaits it. It is still behind a flag in most browsers, but hopefully not for long!

huh when i open up my 401k website it just starts playing wiz khalifa’s “see you again”, is this normal

well, I just caught up on the news and: jfc

Just watched Sen King's speech on the Senate floor - thank you for that! Every American should hear this. #CourageIsContagious youtu.be/g2ptQFOi9Pg

I had a thought last night about writing a follow-up to "understanding wasm": "building wasm" which would take a comparative look at how wasm runtimes are structured, maybe trying to link that back to VM design texts, etc

TIL that the term "pie in the sky" comes from an IWW song also that it was sung to counter the salvation army (!!) who would show up to counter-protest at strikes (!!!)

🚀 Chicory 1.1.0 is here! 🚀 This release brings SIMD support, improved Android compatibility (API 28+), and overall performance boosts! ⚡ Read more: 🔗 chicory.dev/blog/chicory... #WebAssembly #Java #Chicory #wasm

whoda thunk that getting blood drawn would knock you out. (me. ida thunk. i almost thunked right onto the floor, in fact)

I'm always down for chain reaction, a film where keanu just really needs to upload something important to the internet

only a little sad that (neo-)vim doesn't have a parallel to ":wq" for touching a file in-place to retrigger a build (":ew!")

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carping for a second: typescript-lsp includes a formatter (great! good! ok!); typescript-lsp disagrees with prettier on some indentation (okay! fine! alright!); typescript-lsp doesn't seem to expose a way to call its formatter from the command line (terrible! awful! for the love of god, montresor!)

one year (and a half) of working in wasm has made me keenly aware of the difference between address space and committed memory. especially the ease with which you can hit address space limits because of guard pages.

if i could add one thing to bash, it would be to add a "set -4" which would interpret "echo 4?" as "echo $?" instead of me having to re-run the previous command (I know, I know, it should be in my PS1, but.)

okay, so using `--experimental-strip-types` with node v22+ is UNREASONABLY nice

my shameful secret: I built a gaming PC in 2021 so that I could exclusively play remastered editions of games I enjoyed in 1998 (starcraft 1, age of empires 1 & 2, diablo 2)

Matteo continues to put out clear, informational explanations about core platform architecture concepts. (I'm pretty animated by HTTP caching – designing around caching strategies was pretty fundamental to my experience at npm. You can do some pretty nifty stuff with modern CDNs these days, too!)