ghishadow.bsky.social @ghishadow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I just sponsored @NixOS. Go Sponsor your open source dependencies! github.com/sponsors/Nix...github.comSponsor @NixOS on GitHub SponsorsNix is a powerful tool that enables declarative and reproducible builds, upon which an entire ecosystem is built, including Nixpkgs, one of the largest package repositories, NixOS, an entire operat... 010
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialPostgres Summit US @pgsummitus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Tickets for Postgres Summit US 2026 are on sale! Join us in NYC for three days of Postgres talks, community, and professional networking. Grab your ticket before we sell out. #PGSummitUS 🗓️Sept 30 – Oct 2, 2026 🎟️https://2026.postgressummit.us/registration/2026.postgressummit.usRegistration – Postgres Summit US 2026Register now for Postgres Summit US 2026! 045
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialmartinvonz.bsky.social @martinvonz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I left Google and joined East River Source Control almost two months ago. Our redesigned website is now up, including a blog post about me joining: ersc.io/blog/martin-....ersc.ioEast River Source Control Names Jujutsu Creator Martin von Zweigbergk Chief Technology Officer // ERSCAfter 15 years at Google, the creator of JJ joins ERSC as CTO. 315726
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialNode.js @nodejs.org · 01/07/2026New to open source, or wondering how to get your first Node.js contribution landed and released? Check out our new first-time contributors guide, with practical tips and answers to FAQs about working with our volunteer-driven model. bit.ly/4avNtP2github.comnode/doc/contributing/first-contributions.md at main · nodejs/nodeNode.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨. Contribute to nodejs/node development by creating an account on GitHub. 1377
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialTC39 @tc39.es · 22/05/2026ECMAScript Excitement 🎉 This week, at its 114th meeting, TC39 advanced these proposals: 4️⃣ Atomics.pause 4️⃣ Joint iteration 3️⃣ Error stack accessor 3️⃣ Intl: Keep Trailing Zeros 3️⃣ Iterator Chunking 3️⃣ Iterator Includes 3️⃣ Iterator Join 3️⃣ RegExp Buffer Boundaries 2️⃣ Amount 2️⃣ Intl Sequence Units and... 👇 24713
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialRust Language @rust-lang.org · 03/06/2026Check out our latest blog post for an interview with Tiffany Pek Yuan, one of the maintainers of the Rust programming language: blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/... This is the first in a series of blog posts highlighting our amazing maintainers. 💛blog.rust-lang.orgMaintainer spotlight: Tiffany Pek Yuan (@tiif) | Inside Rust BlogWant to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look! 17512
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialArseny Kapoulkine @zeux.io · 04/05/2026While volk always tracks the latest Vulkan version (I've automated myself), I occasionally tag new numbered versions and today is such a day! New release 1.4.350 features a number of small improvements for various edge cases as long as all the new extensions you may want. github.com/zeux/volk/re...github.comRelease 1.4.350 · zeux/volkA periodic tagged release of volk, matching Vulkan 1.4.350. New extensions: VK_EXT_descriptor_heap 🎉 VK_ARM_data_graph, VK_ARM_data_graph_optical_flow, VK_ARM_performance_counters_by_region, VK_AR... 0125
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialAssociation for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 26/04/2026HBD to Manuel Blum! Blum received the 1995 #ACMTuringAward for his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its applications to cryptography and program checking. Blum explains the “speedup theorem:” youtu.be/jxpg9oub6ek?... 052
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialPierre-Loup Griffais @plagman.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Proton 11.0 is now available in Beta! 515227
ghishadow.bsky.social @ghishadow.bsky.social · 07/03/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Ve...youtube.comModelling diverse learning tasks with predictive coding - Professor Rafal Bogacz (Oxford)YouTube video by Thinking About Thinking 010
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialDavid Crawshaw @crawshaw.io · 21/02/2026Small apps you build with agents don't need to be written in a "sandbox" then "deployed". You can develop them in situ on the server. That is the premise of exe.dev/new. 3254
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialPlanet Nix @planetnix.bsky.social · 04/02/2026🎤 PlanetNix 2026 speaker highlight Sam Fu (Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic) is joining PlanetNix with a deep-dive war story: Nix Builds 🤝 K8s Dev Environments: A Love Hate Relationship in 5 Acts See you in Pasadena? 👀 planetnix.com 053
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialPlanet Nix @planetnix.bsky.social · 11/02/2026#PlanetNix 2026 Speaker Announcement! Join Surma and Eelco for their talk: builtins.wasm: Nix Meets WebAssembly. More 👉 planetnix.com 031
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialSebastian Schöner @sschoener.bsky.social · 09/02/2026What I've learned over the last 1.5months of writing a GUI library: blog.s-schoener.com/2026-02-09-g... 1204
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialStefan Reinalter @molecularmusing.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Surprise! Live++ hot-reload running on SteamDeck Proton. This is a debug build with the SteamDeck connected over Wifi. Final performance will be <1s reloads. 2605
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialPierre-Loup Griffais @plagman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Proton 10.0-4 is now live. github.com/ValveSoftwar... 5785
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialMiguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Staying true to my one trick pony ethos. SwiftTerm, running a poor man's Evolution email client written in TermKit using MailFoundation and MimeFoundation: 5515
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialCollabora @collabora.com · 30/12/2025We're pleased to see Zink enabling the first Gallium-free Mesa driver—an important milestone for the graphics and RISC-V ecosystem. 1101
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialIgalia @igalia.com · 27/01/2026We’ll be out in force at @fosdem.org '26 at the end of this week, with eight talks on a wide variety of topics—the latest on @servo.org, GStreamer work, graphics stacks, MathML interop, WebAssembly runtimes, handing out Servo stickers, and more! www.igalia.com/2026/01/26/I...igalia.comIgalia at FOSDEM ’26 | IgaliaIgalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and cl... 02310
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialFOSDEM @fosdem.org · 27/01/2026fosdem.orgFOSDEM 2026 - Call for volunteersBrussels / 31 January & 1 February 2026 0106
ghishadow.bsky.social @ghishadow.bsky.social · 24/01/2026> Visual Studio 2026 and later versions don't support C++AMP, the ARM32 toolchain, and /DEBUG:FASTLINK I wonder where people going from old AMP codes 000
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialSwift Language @swift.org · 22/01/2026Your favorite C library, now with Swift superpowers. 🦸 New post: how to transform C APIs into idiomatic Swift, with enums, automatic reference counting, and argument-labeled methods. Best of all: no header changes needed, thanks to API notes! 🥳 www.swift.org/blog/improvi...swift.orgImproving the usability of C libraries in SwiftThere are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct inte... 1399
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialSYCL @khronos-sycl.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Call for Submissions for IWOCL 2026 has been extended until January 25th! Get your submission in now and join us in for another inspiring workshop! iwocl.org #OpenCL #SYCL #IWOCL2026 022
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialThe Vulkan Working Group @vulkan.org · 20/01/2026Register now for Vulkanised 2026, the largest event dedicated to developers using the Vulkan API, and bring your questions to be answered by our world-leading panel of experts! Explore the agenda and register today: vulkan.org/events/vulka... #vulkan #api #Vulkanised2026 #graphics #developer 093
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialTCS+ @tcsplus.bsky.social · 09/01/2026The recordings (and slides when provided) of the previous season of TCS+ are now available! Website: www.tcsplus.org/welcome/past... YouTube: www.youtube.com/@TCSplusSemi... 0103
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialFOSDEM @fosdem.org · 14/01/2026fosdem.orgFOSDEM 2026 - Birds of a Feather/Unconference roomsBrussels / 31 January & 1 February 2026 0123
ghishadow.bsky.social @ghishadow.bsky.social · 18/01/2026MSYS2 like environment with nix or guix will be fun 020
ghishadow.bsky.social @ghishadow.bsky.social · 26/11/2025steam client in windows is 64 bit (beta), end of era 010
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialJake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 19/11/2025I'm experimenting with this format. Is it… good? Like, should I do more of this kind of thing? Critical feedback welcome! 261153
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialOCaml @ocaml.org · 22/11/2025youtube.com0xCaml From a System Engineer's Point of View - Dmitriy Kovalenko - FUN OCaml 20250xCaml From a System Engineer's Point of View Dmitriy Kovalenko (LightSource) ABSTRACT I do a lot of Rust, C, Zig and whatever else cursed systems programming languages are there. So recently 0xCaml popped out and I was def interested if I can finally use it. So I did some research on how it actually works comparing to native OCaml and other languages and try to build odiff (the fastest image comparison lib in the world) with 0xCaml. Here is what I learned. Session page: https://fun-ocaml.com/2025/oxcaml-system-engineers-pov/ Connect with FUN OCaml: Twitter: https://x.com/FunOCaml Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/fun-ocaml.com #ocaml --- Big Thanks(TM) go to our generous sponsors who made FUN OCaml possible! * Octra Labs - https://octra.org/ - Platinum Sponsor * Ahrefs - https://ahrefs.com/ - Platinum Sponsor * Dialo - https://dialo.ai/ - Gold Sponsor * LexiFi - https://www.lexifi.com - Bronze Sponsor * Jane Street - https://www.janestreet.com/ - Bronze Sponsor * LightSource - Volunteer / Organizer Commitment * Tarides - Volunteer / Organizer Commitment 022
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialTigerBeetle @tigerbeetle.com · 06/11/2025On Async Mutexes, matklad writes matklad.github.io/2025/11/04/o...matklad.github.ioOn Async MutexesA short note on contradiction or confusion in my language design beliefs I noticed today. 021
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialSebastian Schöner @sschoener.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Do you want to improve the performance of your il2cpp Unity projects, without changing your code or your assets? My il2cpp build processor cpp2better is now officially available (on request). Reach out to me, details here: blog.s-schoener.com/2025-11-04-c...blog.s-schoener.comcpp2better, an il2cpp postprocessor | Sebastian SchönerIt’s been a while since I last talked about cpp2better. Time for an official “here it is” post. What is cpp2better? cpp2better is a tool that hooks into your build pipeline for Unity to achieve better... 0147
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialMohsen Zakeri @mohsenzakeri.bsky.social · 21/10/20251/6 Movi 2 is here: faster and more space-efficient for pangenome queries. Its fastest mode uses half the memory of Movi 1 while running ~30% faster. github.com/mohsenzakeri...github.comGitHub - mohsenzakeri/Movi: Fast, Cache-Efficient, and Scalable Queries on PangenomesFast, Cache-Efficient, and Scalable Queries on Pangenomes - mohsenzakeri/Movi 14424
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialjoshua stein @jcs.org · 22/10/2025OpenBSD 7.8 released marc.info?l=openbsd-an... www.openbsd.org/78.html 0165
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialAssociation for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 20/10/2025Watch 2019 Turing Award Recipient Ed Catmull discuss LucasFilm. Full lecture here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdPX... 022
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialDaniel Lemire @lemire.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Speeding up C++ functions with a thread_local cache lemire.me/blog/2025/10/19/speeding-… 072
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialAnna Foix @afoix.bsky.social · 17/10/2025We’ll be presenting at the #BIC workshop at @iccv.bsky.social! This year’s BIC has amazing speakers 🌺 — join us on 19 October at the Honolulu Convention Center to explore cutting-edge methods at the intersection of computer vision and biology 🔬 #ICCV2025 More details: www.bioimagecomputing.combioimagecomputing.comBioImage Computinga truly interdisciplinary workshop 043
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialPhoronix @phoronix-poster.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Latest Linux Patches For Homa Posted: TCP Alternative With 10~100x Lower Tail Latency - www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Homa-20…phoronix.comLatest Linux Patches For Homa Posted: TCP Alternative With 10~100x Lower Tail LatencyPosted to the Linux networking mailing list on Wednesday were the latest patches for enabling the Homa transport protocol. Homa is the clean-sheet design aiming to become an alternative to TCP within data centers and capable of offering 10~100x reductions in tail latency for short messages... 091
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialJake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 16/10/2025I dug into progressive image rendering and found a bunch of common assumptions aren't quite true. ➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari ➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive ➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't ➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF ⬇️ and more jakearchibald.com/2025/present...jakearchibald.comThe present and potential future of progressive image renderingExploring progressive image rendering across JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL. 1517240
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialRob Palmer @robpalmer.bsky.social · 15/10/2025ECMAScript excitement 😉 Congrats to Evan Wallace on shipping the TC39 Stage 2.7 Import Bytes proposal in ESBuild 0.25.11 🎉 It lets you import raw bytes as a readonly Uint8Array 👍 import buf from "./a.png" with { type: "bytes" } Also available in Deno, Bun, & webpack. 0375
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialLaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social · 14/10/2025GPU computing before CUDA was *weird*. Memory primitives were graphics shaped, not computer science shaped. Want to do math on an array? Store it as an RGBA texture. Fragment Shader for processing. *Paint* the result in a big rectangle. 6697
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialBen Langmead @benlangmead.bsky.social · 14/10/2025New tool "bwt-svg" for making illustrations of the BWT and the many auxiliary arrays and other structures related to it. Pyodide-based no-installation-necessary interface here: benlangmead.github.io/bwt-svg/. (H/t to @robert.bio for pointing me to pyodide!) Full repo: github.com/benlangmead/.... 34021
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialThe Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 14/10/2025Today for #AdaLovelaceDay, which celebrates the achievements of women in STEM, read about the 10 most influential women in British science history, as chosen by leading female scientists: #WomenInSTEM royalsociety.org/about-us/who... 15618
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialQuanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 14/10/2025In optimization problems, randomness thwarts complexity.quantamagazine.orgResearchers Discover the Optimal Way To Optimize | Quanta MagazineThe leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. 0267
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialCMU Database Group @db.cs.cmu.edu · 13/10/2025Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Will Manning (@willmanning.com) will present @spiraldb.com's Vortex file format. Vortex is now a @linuxfoundation.org project. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futur...db.cs.cmu.edu[Future Data] Vortex: LLVM for File Formats - Carnegie Mellon Database GroupApache Parquet revolutionized columnar storage after its initial release in 2013, but... Read More + 044
Reposted by @ghishadow.bsky.socialIgalia @igalia.com · 26/09/2025🛡️ @cloudflare.social is upping Worker security, and Igalia is thrilled to have helped out! Our Compilers team added isolation groups to V8, which allows running thousands of scripts at once while also eliminating an entire class of potential security issues. blog.cloudflare.com/safe-in-the-...blog.cloudflare.comSafe in the sandbox: security hardening for Cloudflare WorkersCloudflare Workers are constantly being updated to be as secure and efficient as possible. We are further hardening Workers by making use of the latest software and hardware features. We use defense-i... 081
