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evil.red @evil.red · 07/10/2026

Thank you! We're excited to have such momentum. Take a look at our blog, we're full steam ahead... so much new stuff. New memory allocators, better optimized binaries, parallel compilation, new IP stack, as well as massive increases in library support. Native postgres, odbc, http, live view etc..

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evil.red @evil.red · 06/10/2026

About 90% of the skills in that repo are language agnostic. pony is more of a namespace than a declaration. I hope you find it useful. I'm a fan of your company and your work. I'm rooting for y'all.

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evil.red @evil.red · 06/10/2026

But that's the problem. Pony solves a really difficult problem… but Pony's problem is that it's a problem that the vast majority of developers don't know that they have. … or, they do not realize that there are other ways to solve concurrency issues other than locks / semaphores, etc…

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evil.red @evil.red · 06/10/2026

Pony's Referential Capabilities are completely foreign to pretty much everyone coming from other languages. Once the penny dropped, I couldn't imagine any other way to model and write safe concurrent code. But admittedly, it took me a *while* to get there, and everything to fall into place.

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evil.red @evil.red · 06/10/2026

I don't know rust well, but as I understand it - isn't Arc used for sharing across. threads? Which I thought was reference counted, and garbage collected?

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evil.red @evil.red · 06/10/2026

Great article - and as a pony developer I hear the "I don't want a runtime" line a *lot*. An actor based model has to have schedulers and a runtime. Question about this: "No ifs or buts, no attempt to sneak in garbage collecting or refcounting through the backdoor while no one is looking".

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evil.red @evil.red · 30/09/2026

Sometimes the reward is as simple as being able to look at myself in the mirror the next day...

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evil.red @evil.red · 30/09/2026

That is a shame, but I will say your site in a joy to navigate around. Thank you for doing this!

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evil.red @evil.red · 30/09/2026

Oh man, I've just gone down a web of "Related Papers". I now have 20+ tabs open, and links to various github repos. Are the papers themselves available anywhere on your site? If the link is there then I'm just clueless.

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evil.red @evil.red · 30/09/2026

Ah, has one of my favourite papers listed: "ORCA is a concurrent and parallel garbage collector for actor programs, which does not require any STW steps, or synchronization mechanisms, and that has been designed to support zero-copy message passing and sharing of mutable data."

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evil.red @evil.red · 29/09/2026

Ask a Ukrainian! How accurate was the housing/ living conditions in the 2019 miniseries "Chernoybl"? I'm less asking about the actual plant and events, more the decor, items in the home etc...

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evil.red @evil.red · 26/09/2026

s/shipping/writing/

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evil.red @evil.red · 26/09/2026

I keep toying with the idea of shipping an interpreter for pony. Mainly to help facilitate compile-time expressions. But my TODO list is legion. WTB more lifetimes.

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evil.red @evil.red · 24/09/2026

Seen in the wild today... Ne're truer words hath been encribed upon a bathroom wall and door. #technoblade #minecraft #fuckcancer

Lightswitch, graffitied with "technoblade never dies".

The aforementioned lightswitch in context. Next to a door with "Fuck Cancer!" Graffitied on it.

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evil.red @evil.red · 24/09/2026

Yup, and "ab" in front of names that start with vowels (for those in the bleachers, Welsh loves to mutate words!). Obligatory name example: Ab Evan 》》Bevan (...and Son in Welsh is "mab", but i have no idea if that is a coincidence or not). I adore your linguistic threads!

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evil.red @evil.red · 23/09/2026

That looks like a shared "I know something you don't know" type of glance. Was that on a panel perchance? I love moments like this...

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evil.red @evil.red · 21/09/2026

Awesome! Thank you!

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evil.red @evil.red · 21/09/2026

Wait wait wait... is there a director's commentary of Season 1 somewhere¿

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evil.red @evil.red · 18/09/2026

Wurzel Gummidge approves this message…

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evil.red @evil.red · 16/09/2026

I'm so incredibly happy to hear that. Growing up in Wales in 80s, we "didn't have" a single gay kid in the school. Probably because we'd have beaten them back into the closet had they revealed themselves. So much progress, warms the cockles of my blackened heart.

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evil.red @evil.red · 11/09/2026

I had to check the date on this one, because a book on fungi with a poisonous green dye cover would be a little too... perfect for this world.

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evil.red @evil.red · 11/09/2026

Instead of wysiwyg (what you see is what you get), it's wysiwim (what you see is what i mean). It's why I reached for LaTeX / lyx before ever reaching for a word processor. Delete some invisible character in word... half your document reformats. Separation of form from content. All good reasons

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evil.red @evil.red · 10/09/2026

Oh man, "Humility". The most perfect and apropos name for a debugger has never existed until now.

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evil.red @evil.red · 09/09/2026

The Blitz in London is still in living memory. My mother was dug out of the rubble after being hit by one of Hitler's flying bombs and 80+ years later she is still terrified of being buried alive again. You will always have allies in London.

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evil.red @evil.red · 08/09/2026

Asymmetric friendships are the root of all evil. (Regardless of which side of the equation you're on)

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evil.red @evil.red · 06/09/2026

The argument they will make will be the exact same argument they made to ban Chinese drones. National Security. Strictly speaking, I would argue that they're not open source as you can't reconstruct the model from sources. They are public domain.

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evil.red @evil.red · 04/09/2026

I will tell you though the merging that is killing me. Their they're there. Until recently they all sounded very distinct in my mind so I would write the correct one without thinking. Now my brain has merged the sounds, I have to constantly stop and think and verify. It's killing me.

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evil.red @evil.red · 04/09/2026

I have no doubt you would hear the difference with me saying it, given my accent in that area is still very much British.

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evil.red @evil.red · 03/09/2026

How many seconds do you have as a helicopter pilot to make the decision to try and autorotate? I always got the impression that you had to decide pretty much immediately or die.

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evil.red @evil.red · 03/09/2026

Other rotorcraft can glide, like gyroplanes. But yeah - traditional helicopters scare the pants off me. They have the terminal velocity of a large gold brick.

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evil.red @evil.red · 28/08/2026

Inseparable sounds like a challenge! *fires up llvm*

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evil.red @evil.red · 27/08/2026

(Probably because the "biggest" and "best" models have even more similar patterns which drown out our tiny training corpus). If I knew how to train a model to specialize in this language, it would be teeny tiny. That's what we need.

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evil.red @evil.red · 27/08/2026

I write code in #ponylang. Not a language with a massive corpus for training, so LLMs "adopt" patterns from other languages. The llm-skills we wrote are more about how to filter out bad patterns than teaching good. Interestingly - the best models for pure coding are NOT the latest.

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evil.red @evil.red · 26/08/2026

... AI has near-destroyed the entry-level positions in so many careers, especially software engineering, animation, creative fields like writing. They broke the newbie -> senior development pipeline. Like I said, I use this every day for work. I have to to keep up. I feel my skills atrophy.

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evil.red @evil.red · 26/08/2026

Companies will not scale down until they feel the real cost of running these huge models. These companies are subsidizing the real costs. They're making companies dependent on them. Once the costs increase by x10 or x20 times, the math may not math anymore. ... but it's even more interesting ...

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evil.red @evil.red · 26/08/2026

If you have a specific thing you want your AI/ML to do, you need a very expensive and rare individual who knows how to make the systems... (Or you throw $200 per month at anthropic/openai with a paragraph or two of a description of what you need it to do). Here's the rub:

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evil.red @evil.red · 26/08/2026

As someone who works with these and other models daily, I will tell you that that article does have a kernel of truth, but slightly akimbo. YES, sledgehammer to Crack a nut is what he is describing and he is right for thousands of use cases. The problem is... focus.

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evil.red @evil.red · 24/08/2026

Sent even. Sigh, autocorrect.

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evil.red @evil.red · 24/08/2026

They've sends three royals into Ukraine already. It's time to send the King.

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evil.red @evil.red · 23/08/2026

They should send a song in one of the native UK languages like Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, or Cornish. I honestly believe that sending a non-English song would get a very positive response from the rest of Europe.

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evil.red @evil.red · 22/08/2026

How awesome and thoughtful of them! Let's see if we can get that pen some use! It has an EF nib, so not the first type I would reach for for calligraphy. Do you know what style of calligraphy you are most interested in learning?

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evil.red @evil.red · 22/08/2026

If I'd seen that empty I'd be like "meh", because I wouldn't have been able to visualize its use. It looks great! And gentle on sensitive pen bodies too!

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evil.red @evil.red · 22/08/2026

My copper fountain pen was the most expensive I had bought at the time - right at the height of the pandemic. Me: "It's anti-viral, it's a healthcare purchase".

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evil.red @evil.red · 22/08/2026

Ooh, what did you get? What nib? Enquiring minds need to know!

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evil.red @evil.red · 22/08/2026

Let's see it! (Or at least link the model!) ❤️

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evil.red @evil.red · 20/08/2026

The use of the Æ brings me joy in a way that typically only þ and dieresis can.

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evil.red @evil.red · 20/08/2026

Not to mention cis-male breasts are capable of lactation too. It's on a curve, as yes those cases are at the very very VERY end of the curve. But their existence proves it's not a binary trait.

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evil.red @evil.red · 19/08/2026

That is exceptionally smart.

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evil.red @evil.red · 18/08/2026

Get the booster today, 2 weeks before school starts… or get the updated booster which *may* be made available about 3 weeks into the school year. Make the timing make sense.

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