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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the M6 Pro absolutely crushes everything in ST perf right now, but the low power Intel machines now are pretty good! Oryon is very particular to me since it was designed (largely) by former Apple folks. it is pretty exciting to see machines this powerful though with other chips

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

yeah that's the one i got from Amazon, it was the only place selling the 32GB RAM model

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is also ARMv9.3 and has SVE2 _and_ SME (no SME2). I don't think any other consumer product has this?

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the raw single-core scalar performance of the Oryon v3/Snapdragon X2 (X2E-88-100) is shockingly good, better than even my 9950X3D2 desktop in raw compute perf. if they can get a standard Debian UEFI ISO booting and up the RAM 32GB->64GB (ugh) it would actually be a pretty killer Linux devbox

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Citizen Shane @shanesheehy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Smokin' on that shit that makes you a monkey

It turns people into monsters - The drug Monkey Dust spreads in Berlin

It smells like cat urine and tempts you to add it again and again, often for days: Monkey Dust is becoming more and more popular in Berlin. But consumption can trigger severe paychoses. A former consumer reports.

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Matt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 28/09/2026

hi friends I'm very excited to announce Halfspace, my experimental cross-platform IDE for solid modeling with distance fields! This has been in progress since midway through last year, and it's finally "done enough" to make it more public.

mattkeeter.com

Halfspace

An IDE for solid modelling with distance fields

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i love being a hater but i'm not going to lie. i'm almost impressed by how bad musl's mallocng is. it is shockingly bad in almost every dimension. and the old one was even worse!

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have advanced this to GCC 13.5+binutils 2.41+LLVM 23. funny bit, just linking mimalloc into the build I improved performance by 15% because musl "ping pongs" back to the OS by giving it memory back too eagerly. 300k mmap syscalls to compile 1 (one) .c file! musl's allocator is bad at any speed

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

yeah it uses autotools. in this case the other full bootstrap efforts do use the "native" build system, but here I had Astra _not_ just invoke "make" or whatever, but instead actually write out rules in BUILD files manually, ie it did a whole build system port

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samantha porter bridges @16kbps.net · 22/09/2026

may a thousand buckpkgs bloom

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Last night I had 6-astra-max plan out and begin working on a port of the full source nix/guix bootstrap to raw Buck2 BUILD files and it apparently completed this morning! will be interesting to evaluate how it did here

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's almost like that's my integration branch and arent meant to be merged directly????? but ok go off

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When I first made up this term it was because I literally could not remember the term "octopus merge" and now wife guys are out there explaining feverishly. Life is so beautiful

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Savannah Ostrowski @savannah.dev · 22/09/2026

my husband just interrupted putting dishes away because he wanted to show me something called a “jj megamerge”. i’m scared i’m losing my husband to jj.

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Qualcomm released the compiler for their IDL used for "FastRPC", called QAIC, and it is written in Haskell? good to see some people still have taste! github.com/qualcomm/QAIC

github.com

GitHub - qualcomm/QAIC

Contribute to qualcomm/QAIC development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 17/09/2026

Austin Systems is going GREAT this month. Lightning talks on: - smart home automation - Custom pebble watch firmware - Agents for non-tech work at a tech company - Radar physics and beamforming - Power cable standards - Cloudflare PostgreSQL connection pooling - New ray tracing graphics research

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Benjamin Brittain @bwb.dev · 16/09/2026

JJCon Livestream! www.youtube.com/live/DFjbAsW...

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JJ Con '26

YouTube video by GitButler

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Truth Nuke of unfathomable proportions right here

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nn @nicknoble.works · 10/09/2026

The @ersc.io blog now has cool cover images: ersc.io/blog/what-co...

ersc.io

What comes after git

Our thoughts about the future of version control

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nn @nicknoble.works · 08/09/2026

We're doing it.

A screenshot of @ersc.io's standard.site publication on the pds

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Judge Dredd but he simply enforces that pure mathematics is unpolluted by hero worship

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Let's solve all this nonsense the old-fashioned way. They should just give Grigori Perelman a gun and let him do as he pleases

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

People love to tell you shit like "Listen I'm trying to understand and really help you: please just follow my advice and do [some stupid bullshit that would absolutely fuck up a bunch of shit badly]" no thanks dude, I think I'll just keep as I am 👍

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martinvonz.bsky.social @martinvonz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I 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.io

East River Source Control Names Jujutsu Creator Martin von Zweigbergk Chief Technology Officer // ERSC

After 15 years at Google, the creator of JJ joins ERSC as CTO.

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 01/09/2026

working with Martin has been a real pleasure, and we're super excited to have him at @ersc.io !

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm playing MGS4 again and not only is this game fun as fuck but also Hideo Kojima is maybe the greatest to ever do it i'm afraid

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Just remember that the best way to fight back against things you dislike is to make satirical posts and cultural references. It's more powerful and effective thank you think... and fairly Leftist too...

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

losing nextest was probably one of the biggest downgrades from our buck migration at work by far, so being able to apply a salve like this and claw back some of that was relieving (we switched to this provider on monday actually)

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

also means you can apply this harness to other things; eg i check my Cargo.lock against osv.io so every package is a "test", then an advisory causes a failure. i did this mostly so that the "total test count" buck returns is A Really Big Number, which is pleasing github.com/thoughtpolic...

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

FWIW there's a new, fairly recent InternalRunnerTestInfo provider for Buck2 that gives you the nextest experience; you write Starlark to describe how to parse/discover a list of tests and parse test results and it does the rest. it's pretty swank!

github.com

a/buck/shims/rust_test_internal.bzl at canon · thoughtpolice/a

Fun playground and adventure game. Contribute to thoughtpolice/a development by creating an account on GitHub.

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Guy who has only ever thought about computer programming, thinking about literally anything else in the world for the first time: I'm getting a lot of computer programming vibes from this...

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

They don't make most of their money from that anyway but the math is pretty simple; capacity dwarfs IOPS by magnitudes, so large scale storage ends up with a lot of empty space to meet IO needs. That's why S3 can charge you like $1/TB to store cold data & then charges you $5/TB to download it

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Also I like the confusion people have because HF is just "a file sharing site." That's a fine insult if you are running imgur/photobucket using google ads. But if you are actually charging money to people to store their data it's actually insanely profitable at scale with very fat margins.

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In general, you can have a lot of good reasons to hate a thing. Turns out those reasons (especially moralising) are often not particularly good when it comes to underestimating that very same thing

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The HN thread when Adobe moved the Creative Suite to SaaS is another funny one. Vast, confident, upvoted threads saying that they were done for, cooked, they'd drive away their customer base. Their current profits are ~5x since 2012 and 3x the employees.

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Genius Website is filled with people very confused about how Hugging Face can make money. Greatest minds of our generation out here news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4945...

news.ycombinator.com

Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B | Hacker News

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

cat is fine, he came back like normal. but these raccoons and i are somewhat commensal i suppose. there are 2 others. just a somewhat sad morning, i guess

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austin 🇵🇸 @stdlib.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

woke up early at ~5 today and forgot to let the cat in last night, went outside and saw something laying in the road. there are these raccoons that have been living on my block and under my poorch occasionally, would steal food from my cats. two of the poor fellas got hit :(

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phil @philjamesson.com · 24/08/2026

crocodile tears is such a funny phrase. some guy looked at a crocodile and thought “he looks so sad. but i mustn’t believe him”

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Jujutsu VCS @jj-vcs.dev · 07/08/2026

jj 0.44.0 is out! github.com/jj-vcs/jj/re... jj is a Git-compatible version control system that is both simple and powerful. Below are some highlights of today's release ⬇️

github.com

Release v0.44.0 · jj-vcs/jj

About jj is a Git-compatible version control system that is both simple and powerful. See the installation instructions to get started. Release highlights Support for fetching and pushing tags has...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/07/2026

Nephew Whacking The Hell Out Of Tree Trunk With Stick

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