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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 23/09/2025

wasm’ers rise up

Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 10/09/2025

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

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 10/09/2025

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)

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 22/08/2025

“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)

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 07/08/2025

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

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

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

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 28/05/2025

wow, github truncates file display after 1000 lines now? what a terrible idea!

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 11/05/2025

I think if I were to summarize “what’s interesting about MCP” it would be that it there’s a kernel of useful interfaces that a lot of people have agreed to implement— both in client applications and server providers. It started as “close enough to the right thing” that it gained adoption and grew.

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 24/04/2025

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

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A. H. Zakai @kripken.com · 16/04/2025

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!

github.com

Move JSPI to phase 4 by tlively · Pull Request #207 · WebAssembly/proposals

We voted this to phase 4 at the April 8, 2025 meeting.

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 03/04/2025

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

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 25/03/2025

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

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 03/03/2025

I absolutely loved this talk. It's the endpoint of "programming as theory-building" – by turning software engineering into a rogue-like, the durable product of development is a better theory of how to solve the problem at hand. www.hytradboi.com/2025/03580e1...

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Throwing it all away - how extreme rewriting changed the way I build databases

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 26/02/2025

so, ICYMI, I've been pushing along a (spec-compliant! slow!) wasm interpreter here: github.com/chrisdickins... I've gotten a lot of the structure incorrect. (quelle surprise!) Part one is to start to put cut points between "machine" and "runtime". So I'm identifying organelles of a Wasm runtime.

github.com

GitHub - chrisdickinson/uuasm-rs: wasm interpreter, implemented in rust, for fun and education 🦀

wasm interpreter, implemented in rust, for fun and education 🦀 - chrisdickinson/uuasm-rs

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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

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

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“Thoughtless and Dangerous” King says on Senate Floor in Response to Trump Administration Firings

YouTube video by Senator Angus S. King, Jr.

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 21/02/2025

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

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Katerina Marchán 🐈 @zkat.tech · 21/02/2025

(Boosts encouraged!) Hi! 👋 I’m Kat. I’ve been a professional dev for over 15 years. I maintained the NPM CLI for 5 of those. I sat in TC39. I work at Microsoft. I’m self taught w/a film degree and no formal CS edu. Are you new to tech? What do you wish you could ask some1 like me? Literally AMA

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 21/02/2025

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 (!!!)

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 18/02/2025

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

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 13/02/2025

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

low-quality image of the "chain reaction" (1996) poster. The poster is split in three around a blast of light. Keanu is on the post twice. On the left he's running towards the viewer with a grimace. In the middle he's facing the viewer with an "I'm not mad, just disappointed" look. On the right, Morgan Freeman is also there. Chain React: Reaction Time is Aug 2, 1996. Don't miss it.

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 24/01/2025

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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Robin Brown (she/her) @esoterra2.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Do you work at a company you like that is actively hiring Software Engineers? do you know someone who does? Consider referring me to them & them to me! My website homepage now has a "Hire Me!!" section with info about me, what I'm looking for, and how to contact me! esoterra.dev

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 07/01/2025

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!)

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 18/12/2024

This is what the dylibso team and I have been working on: a safe, portable way to install tools that Claude and other MCP clients can use. Quickly and confidently installing tools from a number of different authors and immediately putting them to use in a Claude session has been eye-opening.

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 18/12/2024

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.

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 17/12/2024

might've just run into a crashing bug in node v22 around worker_threads and/or ESM and/or WASI and/or instrumentation hooks (how's that for surface area?) I'll try to create a reproducible test tomorrow. Mostly segfaults, but got one tcache_thread_shutdown() error from glibc!

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 10/12/2024

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.)

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brianloveswords @brianloveswords.com · 06/12/2024

hello it's me your CEO texting from a number you've never seen, I need 46 gas station hot dogs for an important business deal no time to explain why

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 02/12/2024

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

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 26/11/2024

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)

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 26/11/2024

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!)

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 23/11/2024

I am catching up on the #nodejs primordials discussion (for research into something else), and – at the risk of turning over some still-hot coals – man, it sure seems like folks wish node didn't have a javascript component!

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 19/11/2024

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains. (I am sure someone else already got Brainiac, but just in case, here I am, filling that in)

Brainiac's "Hissing Prigs in Static Couture", 1996

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 13/11/2024

I need a "you're killing me, buster" banner for deno 2

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 13/11/2024

here's a question for y'all– if you had an open source project and were interested in generating benchmarks over time for it –possibly triggered on cron or git push– what would you reach for? (I *think* I have an answer but I'm really hoping someone else has a better one.)

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 12/11/2024

spent last friday digging into how componentize-py’s support for wasm shared libs, though documenting this is like holding on to wet spaghetti trivia: - shared modules import memory, tables, and “offset” globals - the stack is shadowed onto that shared mem - compy synthesizes the main module

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 12/11/2024

officially binned my twitter account today. I had kept it around in not-fully-live mode because it felt like I had a network of support there–and going into 2023 it felt a little scary to give that up. (Twitter was a better linkedin than linkedin, at least for a while!)

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 08/11/2024

hyperlight is seriously impressive – 5ms to spin up, run, and teardown a vm. (and, assuming you're on an x86_64 machine, it's really straightforward to build and get running.) github.com/hyperlight-d...

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 05/11/2024

TIL about JSON.rawJSON (developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...) – handy for de/serializing bigints in JS!

developer.mozilla.org

JSON.rawJSON() - JavaScript | MDN

The JSON.rawJSON() static method creates a

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 29/10/2024

using the clacky keyboard on my windows pc to program always puts me in the mindset of the megaman x intro “this commit possesses great risks and great possibilities. i can only hope for the best. september 18, 20XX”

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 15/08/2024

gonna start a fencing team called "chesterton's fencers" our motto will be "foiled again"

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 07/07/2024

spotify’s x deejay: “alright chris. comin’ up next i want you to chill. this playlist is gonna be more chill than you ever thought possible. if you can imagine that. sit back and chill” x: “anyway here’s elliott smith”

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 25/03/2024

*bene gesserit voice* any status updates on this ticket?

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 24/03/2024

proposal: extend “midwestern” terminology. east coast = “minwestern”, west coast = “maxwestern”

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

[Laurie Anderson voice]: It was American cheese. Made in America. When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force.

LAKEVILLE
WEEK OF AUG. 1-7
Vandalism. Cheese slices were stuck on the windshield of multiple vehicles in the 18000 block of Jurel Court. According to police reports, it was American cheese.

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Chris Dickinson @neversaw.us · 06/09/2023

if you haven’t watched motion-smoothed “the mummy returns” on a hotel tv, can you really say you’ve *seen* the mummy returns i posit: no

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