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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 14/02/2026

I guess another option MIGHT be to compile the C++ library to WASM with emscripten. That’s not a very easy solution and will have a performance hit but might be a reasonable tradeoff depending on the circumstance.

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 14/02/2026

Yeah unfortunately there isn’t an Amazingly ergonomic solution Beyond what others already suggested with caches, or porting the dependency to Rust. (This has to be one of the most under appreciated things about Rust: if the whole project is Rust you don’t have any issues.)

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 14/12/2025

It's an inherent flaw in a centralized system. And yeah, it's not just the UK. I think Australia and many US states either currently have or are considering bans. Which, to be clear, I COMPLETELY support in principle. But it's just a data honeypot and ripe for abuse by governments.

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 14/12/2025

It seems BlueSky is attempting to start collecting personal data for policing purposes now. I’m Not very active here anyways, but will be less so in the future. Follow me on Mastodon or my blog if you’d like to stay up to date.

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 18/11/2025

Bored of scrolling social media during the CloudFlare outage? Maybe you can suggest an even more ergonomic trackball for me ;) ianwwagner.com/elecom-deft-... (Blog ironically not down as it's hosted on GitHub Pages.)

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Elecom Deft Pro - Two Months In

It's not quite two months in, but I said I'd give an update on the Elecom Deft Pro after some use, s...

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 16/11/2025

TBH I don't feel safe returning anytime soon.

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 10/10/2025

huh... anything "interesting" with your network like using a VPN? I tried it just now on my Korean home WiFi and on cell data without issue.

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 09/10/2025

hmm… the server is GitHub Pages 😅 Maybe they had an outage?

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 08/09/2025

Dude, Four Tet is SO GOOD!

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Stadia Maps @stadiamaps.com · 01/08/2025

🪄 Good AI tooling, especially for APIs, isn't automatic or intuitive. 🪄 In fact, our first attempts failed spectacularly. Read the first post in a new series we're writing about how to build great AI tools (including #MCP servers) for #API companies. 👇 stadiamaps.com/news/ai-tool...

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AI Tools for API Companies: AI Needs Context, or How Our Auto-Generation Failed Spectacularly

Why our obvious approach to building MCP servers failed spectacularly, and what we learned about AI-native API consumption. This is the first post in our series about AI tools for API companies.

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 04/07/2025

(Or, a more cynical version: "portable" = "it can be ported"... see, we saved you the hand assembly work, so you CAN port it to this other computer :P)

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 04/07/2025

Right?! I've ranted about this several times in the past (offline) and am pretty sure that when C programmers say "portable" they mean "does not require me to hand-write assembly." That's it. Your C program is almost never *actually* portable for any natural usage of the word.

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 04/07/2025

Super proud of this :) It’s been quite a journey the past few months building this. Expect a few more deep dive blogs soon! (And in case you missed it, I wrote about the quirks of Unicode normalization here: ianwwagner.com/til/unicode-...)

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Unicode Normalization

Today I ran into an amusingly named place, thanks to some sharp eyes on the OpenStreetMap US Slack. The name of this restaurant is listed as ”𝐊𝐄𝐁𝐀𝐁 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐘𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐎𝐍“.

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Michael (compiler-errors) Goulet @errs.io · 02/07/2025

Howdy all. I'm unfortunately not going to be with my employer for much longer due to team relocation. If anyone has any info on roles that would allow me to continue my Rust compiler work (in New York City), they'd be greatly appreciated.

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 31/05/2025

Weekend light blog: Ownership benefits beyond memory safety. Or, how the way you implement APIs in can prevent footguns. Inspired by an old friend's post in a Slack chat about hours wasted on this entirely preventable problem! ianwwagner.com/blog/ownersh... #rust #rustlang

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Ownership Benefits Beyond Memory Safety

Rust’s ownership system is well-known for the ways it enforcesmemory safety guaranteees. For example, you can’t use some value after it’s been freed. Further, it also ensures that mutability is explic...

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 18/05/2025

Rust has some pretty baller tooling crates 😀 Generated this railroad syntax diagram for a mustache derived template DSL using github.com/nu11ptr/pest... in just a few seconds 🤯 #rustlang

A railroad diagram in the style of the original JSON spec showing valid tokens, sequence, and repetition rules.

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 14/05/2025

Building a fitness app? Or planning a hill climb? We can help :)

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 09/05/2025

Today's fun with Unicode, OpenStreetMap, Foursquare OS Places, and giving users useful search results :) ianwwagner.com/til/unicode-... #unicode #programming #openstreetmap

A list of search results showing the same restaurant twice. The first result has a different appearance, being comprised of mathematical unicode symbols.

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 05/05/2025

heh... says the president of the country with one of the world's highest incarceration rates.

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 02/04/2025

Thanks! Not really sure I have any grand plans for it at the moment... just felt like something that needed to exist since MapKit is currently a bit broken 😅 If you're interested in other mappy things though, check out github.com/stadiamaps/f..., which occupies much of my free time these days!

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GitHub - stadiamaps/ferrostar: A FOSS navigation SDK built from the ground up for the future

A FOSS navigation SDK built from the ground up for the future - stadiamaps/ferrostar

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 21/03/2025

Crate in question: docs.rs/tempfile/lat.... Seems like this is appropriate if your use case is served by temp files. Or does it need to be something in memory for performance reasons (more like a message queue or some other form of IPC)?

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Temporary files and directories.

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 21/03/2025

Interesting. I mean, it sounds like it's a pretty easy mistake to make, and both of these look like fairly small projects so they probably just work for the author's intended use. Now I'm curious what you're building though which needs a virtual filesystem. Would something like tempfile work?

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 20/03/2025

Yeah, that's what it looks like. And it also appears the readable file just clones the last bytes that were "committed." Agree it's a weird design choice too. I get the vibe that it's an intentionally minimalist project for unit tests and such, so that probably just never came up as a use case.

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 20/03/2025

It looks like there's a custom drop impl: github.com/manuel-woelk.... I'm a bit too lazy to trace all the threads in a browser, but the reader probably doesn't see anything until the writer is dropped. And flush doesn't really behave like you'd expect.

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 20/03/2025

That doesn't necessarily mean it was designed to support reads from another handle while the file is still "open" (the "trick" is that the block drops the handle). Vfs looks like a minimalist "filesystem" designed for use in unit tests, so I wouldn't expect it to mimic all "usual" behaviors.

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 20/03/2025

I'm not familiar with the vfs crate (and it's sadly not in the rust playground), but I assume what's happening is that the data is not written to the "file" until you flush, some buffer fills up, etc. Most languages do this, and it's often device dependent (ex: a TTY may be line buffered).

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 18/03/2025

I'm definitely doing some crimes with my proc macro implementation, but it's pretty hard to argue with ~200 LOC to replace 456 unit tests and generate a proper data model from a few hundred YAML files at compile time 😂 #rust #rustlang

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 18/03/2025

Oh man, that's a throwback :D

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 18/02/2025

As one might expect, running JS that’s transpiled to WASM without JIT is going to be relatively slow, but that’s another story ;) Using both in the default configurations. It's possible wasmtime has better caching defaults. My v8 embedding was the rust_v8 crate from @deno.land (thanks for that!).

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 18/02/2025

Absolutely wild fact: creating a new V8 isolate (assuming I’m not “holding it wrong”) and compiling a large ES module can take over 100ms. But creating a new component instance in wasmtime is more on the order of 10ms 🤔 I *think* this is roughly apples to apples. #WASM #javascript

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 16/02/2025

This weekend I finally got around to trying something “real” with WASM components. I was able to successfully componentize a sizable library *written in JavaScript* using jco, and then call it from a Rust application! many right edges but it works! Blog post coming. #WASM #rustlang #javascript

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 14/02/2025

Wait, Bluesky doesn't have the ability to save/bookmark a post for later?

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 14/02/2025

Finally found some ski buddies here and had an amazing (but long!) day on the slopes yesterday :) Guess I can also say I've skied an Olympic venue now haha.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” -Anne Frank www.democracynow.org/2025/2/6/hea...

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ICE Agents in Colorado Go Door to Door Demanding IDs and Asking People to Turn In Their Neighbors

In Colorado, heavily armed ICE agents carried out large-scale immigration raids at apartment complexes across Denver and Aurora on Wednesday. The Denver Post reports masked agents knocked on doors dem...

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 10/02/2025

huh... TIL about Canada being different! Funny enough, there is a Korean riff on the same idea as Costco / Sams called eMart Traders Wholesale Club that's growing really fast. One of their promotional banners for why to shop there says "you can use any card you want" 😆

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 07/02/2025

Exclusivity deals. It used to be Amex-only in some countries previously. Kinda funny, right?

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 05/02/2025

We are happy to announce DuckDB v1.2.0 “Histrionicus”! The new release has several usability, security and performance improvements. It has new features for the CSV and Parquet formats, as well new (opt-in) options for DuckDB's own format. Read more at duckdb.org/2025/02/05/a...

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Ian Wagner @ianwwagner.com · 05/02/2025

We’re making it even easier to search the world. Our latest geocoding and search API update brings in a new data source (in beta): Foursquare OS Places. I’ve been using 4sq apps for almost 15 years, and it’s great to see them embracing open data! Try it out and let us know what you think!

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