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from my link log —
Cranelift progress report: a look back at 2021.
https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/cranelift-progress-2021
saved 2021-12-16

Cranelift Progress Report: A Look Back at 2021
The past year has been a productive one for the Cranelift project! Cranelift is the Bytecode Alliance’s native code compiler that serves as the foundation for the Wasmtime and Lucet WebAssembly virtual machines, and is used in other cont...

Five years ago, I received a 100$ regression bounty pretty much by accident for reporting a regression in #hledger [1] (what an amazing concept and stability commitment!). I decided to spread that back as issue bounties to feed into the community [2]. Those often sat there for years, humans take time.
That was before the slop era.
Now, AI bountyhunters want it, so I changed my terms to…

1.22.1: breaks auto-deduced amounts of forecasted balance assertions · Issue #1638 · simonmichael/hledger
Hi, hledger-1.22.1 introduces a regression preventing auto-deduced amounts of forecasted balance assertions of being calculated. How To Reproduce Take this log.hledger file: 2021-09-01 Normal Balan...

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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from my link log —
Rust in production in 1Password.
https://serokell.io/blog/rust-in-production-1password
saved 2021-01-22 https://

Rust in Production: 1Password
What are the benefits of using Rust for security-centric applications? Find out in our interview with Michael Fey, the VP of Engineering for Client Apps at 1Password.

Los Raiders firman al ala defensiva Kwity Paye https://www.raiders.com/news/los-raiders-firman-al-ala-defensiva-kwity-paye

4 people convicted of conspiracy in US trial tied to 2021 assassination of Haiti's president (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/4-people-convicted-of-conspiracy-in-us-trial-tied-to-2021-assassination-of-haitis-president-00913186
http://www.memeorandum.com/260508/p95#a260508p95

Dark Horse Comics founder Mike Richardson is out after 40 years at the publisher; Embracer Group, which bought Dark Horse in 2021, names Jay Komas interim CEO (Chris Arrant/Popverse)
https://www.thepopverse.com/comics-dark-horse-media-mike-richardson-exit-j…

Dark Horse CEO/Founder Mike Richardson exits after 40 years as new owners bring in new boss from gaming & Lord of the Rings
Embracer replaces Dark Horse CEO Mike Richardson with Middle-earth Enterprises exec in leadership shakeup.

A look at Hyundai's Atlas humanoid robot, slated for assembly tasks in 2028; Hyundai has invested billions in robotics since acquiring Boston Dynamics in 2021 (Hyonhee Shin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

from my link log —
Waiting for PostgreSQL 14: SEARCH and CYCLE clauses.
https://www.depesz.com/2021/02/04/waiting-for-postgresql-14-search-and-cycle-clauses/
saved 2021-03-05

"a new Gallup Poll reveals no significant change in the importance of religion to Americans. Plus, church attendance continues to plummet. The percentage of Americans who classify religion as “very important” in their lives is still flat since its 2021 report, at 47 percent."
Trump fails to 'bring back religion' as church attendance in America death spirals - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-christianity/

It's been 5 years, I should ask the guy who prepended all the project folder names with 'NEW' back in 2021 how it's going...

Kurze Rezensionen zu Ken Liu / The Wall of Storms (2021) und V.E. Schwab / The Fragile Threads of Power (2023)
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/05/science-fiction-und-fantasy-im-april-2026/

Science Fiction und Fantasy im April 2026
Im April habe ich tatsächlich nur zwei Bücher gelesen (und auf dem Bildschirm nur ermattet das ZDF-Magazin Royale konsumiert) - gab einerseits anderes, und andererseits nach 10-12-Stunden-Tagen dann auch keine Muße, zu lesen. Beide Bücher kann ich dafür wärmstens empfehlen. Zum einen war dies der

Raiders sign DE Kwity Paye https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-sign-de-kwity-paye-nfl-free-agency-transactions-2026

"Das ist kein Chart, das ist ein Tatort" ist treffend formuliert von Andreas Schmitz (aka. Der Akku Doktor), der jetzt eine Beschwerde beim ÖR eingereicht hat, weil #Markus_Lanz in seiner Sendung desinformiert = mit bewusst falschen Zahlen agiert.
Ich habe in seine Grafik das Altmeier-Portrait noch einbauen lassen um den Altmeier-Delle genannten Effekt klarer zu visualisieren. Die…

"“Well, Parts of Linguistics Is Open…”: Insights into Linguists’ Diverse Understandings of Open Science"
https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7974
"[…] The study aims to gain insights into th[e] misalignment by exploring linguists’ understanding of what constitutes [

Shot ...and chaser (and it's only Tuesday): Two new 8x6" prints done over the weekend, from one of my fave repeat hikes in the Allgäuer Alps...
Alpsee and view into the Lechtal Alps (November 2021)
Himmeleck mountain pass with Großer Wilder (October 2023)
I find the aesthetics of the Kallitype process are so nicely complementing the timelessness of these places...
For some of the next prints I will be switching to Rochelle salt as developer for supposedly even…

Bizarrely warm end of the winter, here in the Netherlands: average temperature in the last part of February (21-28/29) was more than a full degree higher than the previous record set just five years ago:
10.5°C, that's warmer than the already warmed 1991-2020 average for April!
Peak was above 17°C.

Los Raiders renovaron al ala defensiva Malcolm Koonce https://www.raiders.com/news/los-raiders-renovaron-al-ala-defensiva-malcolm-koonce

Ende 2021 gab es ein Geheimrezept für Menschen, die sich nicht gegen #Corona impfen lassen wollten, aber das Zertifikat brauchten.
Die Methode soll angeblich auch bei anderen #Impfungen funktionieren. In der Systempresse wird so etwas bis heute nicht erklärt und weiter totgeschwiegen oder zen…

from my link log —
Behavior inheritance in Rust.
https://abadcafe.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/behavior-inheritance-in-rust/
saved 2021-06-11

Behavior inheritance in Rust
There is a common adage in Rust community that “Rust prefers composition over inheritance”. There is no inheritance support in common OO sense in Rust. You can achieve some OOP paradigm…

me in 2021 considering Drew to be too much of a free software purist but deciding to use sourcehut anyways
me now and where sourcehut and codeberg are the two best slop-free git hosters

since 2021, Tomohiro Okazaki has been doing stop-motion animation of matchsticks, posting as oo_kk_aa on instagram. occasionally he posts collections to youtube. this is group 18, from 2025-02-01 to 2025-05-22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjls49EsCSE

Earth is hotter than at any time in the last 125,000 years,
but the news media is moving on,
trying to keep on top of a fire hose of pressing news
—from the daily chaos of the Trump administration to the breaking developments in the war on Iran.
The shift in attention started during the COVID-19 pandemic and,
despite a temporary rebound,
has gathered pace in recent years:
Since its peak in 2021, global news coverage of climate change has dropped 38 p…

The Planet Is Overheating, But You Might Not Know It From the News - Inside Climate News
Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent. Blame wars, political chaos and Jeffrey Epstein.

from my link log —
What SRE is not.
https://blog.relyabilit.ie/what-sre-is-not/
saved 2021-11-29 https://dotat.at/:/T0UG8.html

What SRE is not
We used to have a difficulty in our community - thankfully less prevalent now - with rootless questions of identity. Of course, it's not wrong to ask who we are, what we're here for, and what should we be doing: every profession benefits from regular reflection. But too much of

(2021) MOT: Minne muovijätteesi oikeasti menevät? #ympäristö #muovi

Minne muovijätteesi oikeasti menevät? | MOT
Suomalaiset keräävät innokkaasti muovijätettä kierrätystä varten. MOT:n selvitys kuitenkin paljastaa, että pääosa kotien erilliskerätystä muovista meni kierrätyksen sijaan polttoon.

Safety Damar Hamlin re-signs with Bills on 1-year deal https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7131835/2026/03/27/damar-hamlin-bills-free-agency-2026/

from my link log —
Cranelift compiler efficiency, CFGs, and a branch peephole optimizer.
https://cfallin.org/blog/2021/01/22/cranelift-isel-2/
saved 2021-02-19

Los Raiders firman al guardia Trey Zuhn III, elegido en tercera ronda https://www.raiders.com/news/los-raiders-firman-al-guardia-trey-zuhn-iii-elegido-en-tercera-ronda

Reality Labs lost $80B , but it still makes all of Meta's hardware, and reflects Mark Zuckerberg's desire to run a business without Google or Apple as middlemen (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-mark-zuckerber…

Meta and Mark Zuckerberg didn't lose $80 billion on the metaverse
In 2021, Zuckerberg said Facebook was becoming a metaverse company. He's stopped saying that — but he's still putting money into metaverse-y things.

from my link log —
Measuring C std::unordered_map badness.
https://artificial-mind.net/blog/2021/10/09/unordered-map-badness
saved 2021-10-24

Sources: Netflix is in talks to buy Radford Studio Center, a historic LA studio lot, for a fraction of its 2021 $1.85B sale price after lenders repossessed it (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/net…

Raiders sign third-round pick G Trey Zuhn III https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-sign-third-round-pick-trey-zuhn-iii-guard-nfl-draft-texas-a-m-football

from my link log —
The case of the curiously slow shader.
https://raphlinus.github.io/gpu/2021/04/28/slow-shader.html
saved 2021-04-29 htt…

from my link log —
Surprising ctags behaviour.
https://joshleeb.com/posts/surprising-ctags.html
saved 2021-01-10 https://dotat.…

from my link log —
R, OpenMP, MKL, disaster.
https://www.jyotirmoy.net/posts/2021-10-03-r-mkl-openmp.html
saved 2021-10-03 https://

Indian edtech startup upGrad plans to acquire rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal; Unacademy was valued at less than $500M in 2025, down from $3.5B in 2021 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/unac

Unacademy to be acquired by upGrad in share-swap deal as India’s edtech sector consolidates | TechCrunch
The deal comes after Unacademy’s valuation plunged from $3.5B to under $500M, as India’s once-booming edtech sector struggles.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Raiders sign third-round pick G Trey Zuhn III https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-sign-third-round-pick-trey-zuhn-iii-guard-nfl-draft-texas-a-m-football

from my link log —
A tour of safe tracing GC designs in Rust.
http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2021/04/05/a-tour-of-safe-tracing-gc-designs-in-rust/
saved 2021-06-19

Raiders sign fourth-round pick RB Mike Washington Jr. https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-sign-fourth-round-pick-mike-washington-jr-running-back-arkansas-football-2026-draft

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

from my link log —
Consistent overhead byte stuffing for binary logs.
https://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2021/01/11/stuff-your-logs/
saved 2021-03-19 https:/…

Raiders sign fourth-round pick RB Mike Washington Jr. https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-sign-fourth-round-pick-mike-washington-jr-running-back-arkansas-football-2026-draft

from my link log —
Speculating the entire x86-64 instruction set in seconds with this one weird trick.
https://blog.can.ac/2021/03/22/speculating-x86-64-isa-with-one-weird-trick/
saved 2021-03-26

Speculating the entire x86-64 Instruction Set In Seconds with This One Weird Trick
As cheesy as the title sounds, I promise it cannot beat the cheesiness of the technique I’ll be telling you about in this post. The morning I saw Mark …

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1290226 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

from my link log —
Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform.
https://blog.lidskialf.net/2021/02/08/turning-an-old-kindle-into-a-eink-development-platform/
saved 2021-02-09

Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform
I fancied getting an eink screen to use for future projects. I bought a wee one with a raspberry pi “hat” attached. However, I realised later that I could maybe just re-purpose an old A…

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

from my link log —
A tour of safe tracing GC designs in Rust.
http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2021/04/05/a-tour-of-safe-tracing-gc-designs-in-rust/
saved 2021-06-19

from my link log —
An illustrated guide to elliptic curve cryptography validation.
https://research.nccgroup.com/2021/11/18/an-illustrated-guide-to-elliptic-curve-cryptography-validation/
saved 2021-12-01

from my link log —
Project Champollion: reverse-engineering Rosetta 2.
https://ffri.github.io/ProjectChampollion/
saved 2021-03-05 https://

Raiders, big events fuel Allegiant Stadium growth despite Vegas downturn https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/stadium/raiders-big-events-fuel-allegiant-stadium-growth-despite-vegas-downturn-3620736/

from my link log —
Google Chrome reduces its root DNS traffic.
https://blog.verisign.com/domain-names/chromiums-reduction-of-root-dns-traffic/
saved 2021-01-07

Chromium’s Reduction of Root DNS Traffic - Verisign Blog
As we begin a new year, it is important to look back and reflect on our accomplishments and how we can continue to improve. A significant positive the DNS

from my link log —
Container networking is simple.
https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/container-networking-is-simple/
saved 2021-01-21 https://…

How Container Networking Works: Building a Bridge Network From Scratch | iximiuz Labs
Begin with the basics to understand Docker and Kubernetes networking: learn how to create and interconnect Linux network namespaces using only command-line tools.

from my link log —
What engineers can teach (and learn from) programmers.
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/crossover-project/what-we-can-learn/
saved 2021-01-22