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yosh, 2 days ago to random

LRT: Async in WASI 0.3 externalizes the runtime entirely, making it possible to provide first-class async at the ABI level.

This means there is no runtime to thread through the program: the host responsible for running the Wasm program is the reactor.

All you do at the boundaries of your program is say things like: "this is a stream of values" or "this is a future", and the host + bindings generator will handle it correctly. This enables compositions of programs to share one runtime.

yosh, 5 days ago to random

Legit question: why do data centers use vast amounts of water? It’s for cooling right?

I’m wondering why it isn’t possible to use heat pumps — potentially even at scale, to achieve cooling? I’m legitimately interested in why water is being used, and why alternatives are hard to deploy.

yosh, 6 days ago to random

made garlic confit for the first time today — slightly too toasty, forgot to add aromatics, but still delicious!

yosh, 6 days ago to random

Yay! The in-progress wasi:i2c proposal (WASI spec for embedded devices) just moved to phase 2!

This means it's not just something promising anymore, but it seems ready to be implemented in host systems and begin gathering implementation and user feedback from.

I'm legit very excited about this! — But this seems like it has a real shot at improving the embedded development experience. Virtual platform layering, local platform emulation, standard APIs, etc. etc. I'm into it!

yosh, 8 days ago to random

Never ceases to stump me that we have the technology to kill 99.95% of airborne viruses, proven to work, non-invasive, cheap to deploy and install, and is produced at scale already and we just like - collectively - kind of just don't really use it.

HEPA-grade air filtration is proven, cheap, and makes everyone's lives strictly better. It, like, makes zero fiscal sense for governments not to mandate its use in all covered public spaces ASAP.

yosh, 8 days ago to random

I love that we have a word for turning things into rats. For all its flaws, English including the word “ratification” isn’t one.

yosh, 11 days ago to random

Updated my bio last weekend. It feels nice; self-affirming, etc.

yosh, 13 days ago to random

Yesssssss!!!! It’s now possible to write VS Code extensions using WASI 0.2 and Wasm Components!

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2024/05/08/wasm

It doesn’t yet eliminate the need for TypeScript in extensions, but it certainly provides a more compelling experience than managing sub-processes and bespoke RPC calls - as is common in extensions using languages other than JS/TS.

yosh, 14 days ago to random

I disagree with a lot in this article, but hey it's good that four years into the pandemic the WHO finally recognizes that SARS-CoV-2 is airborne:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-fight-about-viruses-in-the-air-is-finally-over-now-its-time-for-healthy/

Now that that's out of the way, hopefully we'll start seeing governments act on implementing clean air protocols. More research is nice (hi Far-UVC), but the focus of governments worldwide really ought to be to roll out mechanical ventilation where possible, and HEPA filtration everywhere else. This should be standard.

yosh, 17 days ago to random

Im sad most conferences are inaccessible to people with compromised immune systems. Or even just folks who choose not to put themselves at risk.

I really miss seeing the folks I work with in person. Hang out. Chat. Geek away. I wish it was possible for me to attend, but unfortunately it isn’t.

yosh, 19 days ago to random

The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) has published standards for Indoor Air Quality (ASHRAE 62.1 & 62.2) and Control of Infectious Aerosols (ASHRAE 241).

I've done a first pass over the numbers published in ASHRAE 241, converting the cited numbers for various scenarios to cubic meters of clean air per person per hour. Then compared that to some of the air filters I've been looking at recently:

https://gist.github.com/yoshuawuyts/0ad5847069965230307c05f417ebc9b8

yosh, 23 days ago to random

imo the best part of the UK are the power plugs. they're so sturdy with a fuse built in. I love them.

yosh, 24 days ago to random

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yosh, 27 days ago to random

Looked at maybe doing some coding today. Realized I’m still too sick to do coding.

Day 7 of this cold today. Not bad enough to actually be a hindrance. But not good enough that I can do the work I should be doing.

yosh, 29 days ago to random

I’ve written maybe 60.000 word in the last eight months, and published maybe 1/10th of that.

Definitely not been feeling motivated to share much of my writing anymore recently. Maybe I’ll do a publishing week in a few months time where I just hit the publish button on all of it in a single sitting or something.

yosh, 1 month ago to random

I learned about the first/second-hand account feature of the Cherokee language, and I really like it. My understanding is that verbs take a different suffix depending on whether you yourself observed something, or you got that information from someone else.

Would happily trade, say, gendered nouns in Latin languages for clearer provenance by default.

yosh, 1 month ago to random

low dopamine type of day. tell me something you’re proud of you did recently

yosh, 1 month ago to random

Oh I guess it’s still autism awareness month? Sorry, I was distracted.

Yeah, anyway: I have autism. Surprising? I sure hope not. This is basically where I get to talk about my special interests every day. Thank you for listening, lmao.

yosh, 1 month ago to random

Someone should write a user-oriented WASI-based OS, and I’m not even kidding.

I want a virtual OS I can load onto any operating system, give a manifest file, and it’ll deploy an entire server environment. Think: stripped down Synology OS, but virtualizable, and only runs WASI programs.

Its key feature would be: it can automatically update itself and its applications whenever updates become available.

yosh, 1 month ago to random

in order to uphold an “international rules-based order” the system has to at least give the impression that the rules are enforced equally for all parties

or maybe even weaker than that: it should not be incredibly obvious and become part of the mainstream conversation that they aren’t

yosh, 1 month ago to random

“The international placeless country of wealth” is such a good phrase.

yosh, 1 month ago to random

Art not as something to be enjoyed, but as a status symbol. The “best” art. The most expensive art. Look at this art I own. Does that not make me important?

yosh, 1 month ago to random

I know very little about data frames, but at a glance they remind me a lot of differential dataflow? How would you articulate the differences between the two systems?

yosh, 1 month ago to random

New blog post: Changes to Rust's WASI targets

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/04/09/updates-to-rusts-wasi-targets.html

yosh, 1 month ago to random

Did y’all see that VS Code is now shipping a built-in test coverage API?

I haven’t really used test coverage measurements since I moved away from JS; but hopefully if it’s more integrated in IDEs it’ll eventually become easier to use.

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_88#_test-coverage