how user agents became a lying mess

Lix is an independent variant of the Nix package manager, developed by a team of open-source volunteers, and maintained by and for a passionate community of users.

I kind of assumed that Lix is a purely political fork, but they seem to write actual code, so that’s nice. Changelog promises faster evaluation, better errors and REPL improvements.

Very much not-production-ready (didn’t even compile on my machine), but looks pretty cool (rad, even).

Could it be?.. A sensible looking Neovim colorscheme?..

A distributed network that allows you to add host-independent repo identifier as a git origin. Looks like it worth a try, especially with sr.ht being down and Codeberg half-broken because of a DDoS attack.

gstreamer-plugins-bad includes a NES 6502 emulator, which was vulnerable to RCE.

About why free functions are important. I find verb/noun framework from this article quite useful.

This is an opinionated essay about good and bad practices in data visualization. Examples and explanations are below.

Faster and simpler git rebase.

a whirlwind tour through the guts of the system

MLIR is an interesting LLVM compiler framework thingy that uses LLVM for multiple representations instead of just high-level assembly.

This tutorial runs through the implementation of a basic toy language on top of MLIR. The goal of this tutorial is to introduce the concepts of MLIR; in particular, how dialects can help easily support language specific constructs and transformations while still offering an easy path to lower to LLVM or other codegen infrastructure. This tutorial is based on the model of the LLVM Kaleidoscope Tutorial.

Niko’s post about using vectors (≈ arenas) instead of reference counters to model graphs. Explains how it relates to ownership and borrowing.

See also: Handles are the better pointers.

The paper’s claim:

False.

Compilers do optimize atomics, memory accesses around atomics, and utilize architecture-specific knowledge. This paper illustrates a few such optimizations, and discusses their implications.

Interestingly, none of the optimizations proposed in the paper actually work on GCC or Clang.

A first (as far as I know) description of ringbuffer based on two mmaps. I hope to make a better one sometime, but for now this’ll the best explanation I have.

tl;dr: /dev/random is obsolete and /dev/urandom is strictly better except in early boot.

SimpleX Chat - a private and encrypted messenger without any user IDs (not even random ones)! Make a private connection via link / QR code to send messages and make calls.

A website/game that allows you to create some DNS entries and see what happens.