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Bericht: OpenAI arbeitet an einer Alternative zu GitHub
Microsofts GitHub könnte in Zukunft Konkurrenz von OpenAI bekommen. Zumindest lässt das KI-Unternehmen intern angeblich eine Alternative entwickeln.
https://www…

What if you set out to shoot yourself in the foot, and instead you shot off the whole rest of your body? https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-github-availability/
That’s GitHub, and the whole rest of the tech industry, right …

An update on GitHub availability
Here’s what we’ve done—and what we’re still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.

Меня расстраивает, что #Mastodon приняли слишком умеренную политику в отношении генеративного ИИ. Это снижает мотивацию как-то вкладывать в проект свое время и силы.
Почему они зассали и не ввели полный запрет?
https://

.github/AI_POLICY.md at main · mastodon/.github
Mastodon org-level files. Contribute to mastodon/.github development by creating an account on GitHub.

from my link log —
An emulator for a Sun 2 workstation.
https://github.com/lisper/emulator-sun-2
saved 2020-02-17 https://dotat.at/:/92…

GitHub - lisper/emulator-sun-2: Emulator for Sun-2 workstation
Emulator for Sun-2 workstation. Contribute to lisper/emulator-sun-2 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Make paint-by-number pictures in R: #rstats

GitHub - cj-holmes/paintr: Create paint by numbers images
Create paint by numbers images. Contribute to cj-holmes/paintr development by creating an account on GitHub.

Running #Lando on GitHub Actions. #Laravel #PHP
https://www.

copyfail is a bugclass, instance 2: https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/Copy_Fail2-Electric_Boogaloo

GitHub - 0xdeadbeefnetwork/Copy_Fail2-Electric_Boogaloo: Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo
Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo. Contribute to 0xdeadbeefnetwork/Copy_Fail2-Electric_Boogaloo development by creating an account on GitHub.

#GitHub does not have to be your only forge
https://hiphish.github.io/blog/2026/05/01/github-does-not-have-to-be-our-only-forge/

Es gibt wohl mal wieder eine LPE im #linux kernel: #DirtyFrag. POC läuft zumindest mal auf nem Testsystem mit älterem Kernel. Laut Seite ist es in den Distros bisher *nicht* gepatched.

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darrylmorley/whatcable
macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do
github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable

GitHub - darrylmorley/whatcable: macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do · GitHub
macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do - darrylmorley/whatcable

Dangit I think I might need to actually learn Rust. In Electron, a minimal app to control blink(1)s weighs in at 285 MB on disk. An equivalent Tauri Rust app is 5.5 MB!
https://github.com/todbot/electron-blink1-toy/


Dangit I think I might need to actually learn Rust. In Electron, a minimal app to control blink(1)s weighs in at 285 MB on disk. An equivalent Tauri Rust app is 5.5 MB!
https://github.com/todbot/electron-blink1-toy/


Would be really great if
> nix run codeberg:user/repo
was possible. It works for #GitLab and #GitHub already. #Codeberg should also work. Instead, one needs to write this unergonomic thing:

feat: flake input type "`codeberg`" · Issue #14064 · NixOS/nix
Problem Flakes targeting a remote hosted on codeberg need to use the git type It is not as efficient as a dedicated "codeberg" flake input type, and cumbersome to write Proposed solution Feature a ...

I have just updated this old #IDA Plugin of mine: IDA Magic Strings.
https://github.com/joxeankoret/idamagicstrings
It now supports installation using hcli (

A bit overshadowed by Vulkan descriptor heaps and HDR extensions: the latest #Nvidia beta drivers for #Linux (595.45.04) also introduce an alternative to the current systemd-based power management triggers, instead relying on the kernel's own suspend and hibernate notifiers when NVreg_UseKern…

#linux #секурно #решето @…
Говорят опять решето, но у …

GitHub - V4bel/dirtyfrag
Contribute to V4bel/dirtyfrag development by creating an account on GitHub.

Friday Links 26-08
A bit quieter this week.
The podcast about the golden ages of computing is interesting, the GitHub issue exploit is also worth a read.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/03/friday-links-26-08.html

A weekend of upstream bug fixing
First, gcc on arc believed that the 'fsrnd' instruction would be useful in implementing the C roundf function (hint, it's not). https://github.com/keith-packard/gcc/commit/152aa613852a2258062ecf7ac819e5eea263a5…

arc64: Disable incorrect "round" intrinsic · keith-packard/gcc@152aa61
The round intrinsic is supposed to match the IEEE roundToIntegralTiesAway operation, which is how the C roundf/round/roundl functions are defined). There is no arc instruction which matches those s...

Just released a small but useful update for my little Internet Archive Plugin for Craft CMS. 🏛️
You can now opt individual entries out of automatic archiving via a lightswitch field – and manually send any entry to the Wayback Machine straight from the Craft CP entries index. ✨
https://github.com/matthiasott/cr…

Not proud or satisfied about this bug fix as I had to use ChatGPT in the end.
https://github.com/shanmukhateja/gitraven/pull/1
The fix was computing `objFullPath` over each iteration and then use it when computing absolute path for a tree node.

Just released my first ever demoscene demo at Revision 2026 in the Wild-Compo:
A tech demo for Casio fx-9860G graphical calculators!
Sourcecode: https://github.com/Manawyrm/Casiomania
Details:

GitHub - Manawyrm/Casiomania: Demo for Casio fx-9860G graphical calculators (audio, grayscale, 3d rendering)
Demo for Casio fx-9860G graphical calculators (audio, grayscale, 3d rendering) - Manawyrm/Casiomania

I’m still completely lost with logic of JA4 patent licensing and actual incompatibility with the copyleft-license. So it seems to be a patent-based license and really risky to implement if you want to keep your actual software open source.
Did someone explore alternatives to avoid this? and especially other format which are open source friendly?
#ja4

can’t fucking believe that “omg we’re down all the time b/c we're being ddosed by too much code 🥺”-github is fucking hosting a fucking meet and greet with the fucking dude who’s responsible for some of the worst offenses by enabling an legion of mac minis flooding the world with slop.
guess github is now fully integrated into the org chart

Remove Windows AI: Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11
Why? The current 25H2 build of Windows 11 and future builds will include increasingly more AI features and components. This script aims to remove ALL of these features to improve user experience, privacy and security.
❌ https://github.com/zoicware/Re…

Function-oriented Make-like declarative workflows for R #rstats

GitHub - ropensci/targets: Function-oriented Make-like declarative workflows for R
Function-oriented Make-like declarative workflows for R - ropensci/targets

Everyone loves jeering at vibecoded #GitHub being down all the time. Yet for some reason people still neglect to question making #Microsoft the primary guarantor of their software's supply chain #security. And the whole attestation nonsense that doesn't really protect against the most likely attack vectors.

from my link log —
Fitting cubic Bézier curves.
https://raphlinus.github.io/curves/2021/03/11/bezier-fitting.html
saved 2021-03-14 h…

Looks like this got rolled back, but… if you use VSCode for source control… Microsoft has a new chore for you. (check your commits, I guess? this is bonkers.)
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226

Enabling ai co author by default by cwebster-99 · Pull Request #310226 · microsoft/vscode
Visual Studio Code. Contribute to microsoft/vscode development by creating an account on GitHub.

https://github.com/ellieayla/argparse-help-markdown extracts all the --command-line=arguments supported by a CLI tool built with the Python argparse library, and writes them as a markdown table.
It's like your-cool-script.py --help, but for embedding into README.md during CI.
No dependencies outside of standard library. Single file module. Works great with @… 's cog.

omg it's Mark Pilgrim 😮 https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327

No right to relicense this project · Issue #327 · chardet/chardet
Hi, I'm Mark Pilgrim. You may remember me from such classics as "Dive Into Python" and "Universal Character Encoding Detector." I am the original author of chardet. First off, I would like to thank...

I don’t think I feel comfortable using Linux mint, they have a GitHub bot that auto closes inactive issues.
#linuxmint

＂Clean up the pkgbase wiki page and remove outdated information.＂
💚 <https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/status-updates/blob/main/Isaac_Freund/2026-02.md> 💚
– via <

China is likely to win the #AI cost race to the bottom: DeepSeek-powered Claude Code clone explodes in popularity on GitHub https://cybernews.com/ai-news/deepseek-claude-code-clone-popul…

BlueSky seems to be having connectivity issues for me this afternoon... people there are blaming it on the use of AI in their codebase, so I think now would be a good time for someone to review my PR I have open against it, to tell Claude to ensure it's following the proper licensing requirements: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/pull/9709

Source: OpenAI is developing an alternative to GitHub; the project is nascent, and the decision came after OpenAI engineers experienced an increase in outages (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-developing-alternative-micro…

OpenAI Is Developing an Internal Alternative to Microsoft’s GitHub
OpenAI is developing an alternative to GitHub, Microsoft’s popular code repository that lets software engineers store, share and collaborate on computer code, according to a person with knowledge of the project. The decision to embark on the new product came after OpenAI engineers, like other ...

https://github.com/unbrowse-ai/unbrowse

We are doomed: https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines
A prompt injection in a GitHub issue triggered a chain reaction that ended with 4,000 developers getting OpenClaw installed without consent. The attack composes well-understood vulnerabilities into something new: one AI tool bootstrapping another.

github: GitHub contest (2009)
The bipartite project-user membership network of the software development hosting site GitHub. A user connects to a project if that user is a member of that project.
This network has 177386 nodes and 440237 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/github

great UI for subsonic #music server - definitely try it if you are hosting #navidrome or #jellyfin. imho it's way better than spotify/tidal offer!

GitHub - jeffvli/feishin: A modern self-hosted music player.
A modern self-hosted music player. Contribute to jeffvli/feishin development by creating an account on GitHub.

@… Es gibt eine Schriftart, die Barcodes erzeugt. https://graphicore.github.io/librebarcode/documentation/code128.html
Man könnte den Barc…

My #orgdown static website generator #lazyblorg learned lots of new tricks lately:
- ultracool #TagTree navigation 🏷️
- Atom feeds for single tags and combination of 2

Github is the Microsoft Office of repositories

OK so now I have a hundred-odd lines of Bash and a 25-line slurm.conf that is able to queue up a build job (https://github.com/ngscopeclient/scopehal-ci-scripts), wait for the node to be free, spawn the VM, wait for it to boot, launch the actual test script on the VM, shut it down,…

GitHub - ngscopeclient/scopehal-ci-scripts: Test scripts for continuous integration builds on our internal cluster
Test scripts for continuous integration builds on our internal cluster - ngscopeclient/scopehal-ci-scripts

It's probably a lost cause and also too short notice, but I'm still thinking about #AlgoApril, which I proposed back in 2022, but it's an incomplete list of prompts and sadly never took off...
https://github.com/alg…

{constructive} prints code that can be used to recreate R objects. Like dput, but better... #rstats

Display Idiomatic Code to Construct Most R Objects
Prints code that can be used to recreate R objects. In a sense it is similar to base

"The main driver is a rapid change in how software is being built. Since the second half of December 2025, agentic development workflows have accelerated sharply."
😂
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-github-availabili…

An update on GitHub availability
Here’s what we’ve done—and what we’re still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.

Github Copilot is changing their pricing.
Currently, you are given a fixed number of free tokens per month (with a fallback when you run out). The new scheme gives you your base fee as monthly credits to buy tokens, with you paying for every token after that.
https://g…

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.

Did you know that GitHub Actions have recently added support for timezones? (Not to imply I've experienced any BST-related issue this morning.)
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-03-19-github-actions-late-march-2026-updates/

GitHub Actions: Late March 2026 updates - GitHub Changelog
This month, GitHub Actions resolves some outstanding papercuts, including support for timezones in scheduled workflows and using environments without automatic deployments. GitHub Actions now allows developers to use environments without…

Just came across a less-known X4 firmware: cpr-vcodex
It'll definitely attract people who are into the stats hype as it includes detailed reading analytics (and other improvements to Crosspoint).
https://github.com/franssjz/cpr-vcodex

from my link log —
Roogle: a Rust API search engine.
https://github.com/roogle-rs/roogle?tab=readme-ov-file
saved 2026-04-05 https://

GitHub - roogle-rs/roogle: A Rust API search engine
A Rust API search engine. Contribute to roogle-rs/roogle development by creating an account on GitHub.

Building and pushing container images on Codeberg CI
As part of moving my services to EU-based infrastructure, I've been migrating away from GitHub to @… One of the things I needed was a CI pipeline to build a container image and push it to the Codeberg container registry for my @…

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aitorres/barkr
Yet another social media cross-posting tool in Python
github.com/aitorres/barkr

GitHub - aitorres/barkr: Yet another social media cross-posting tool in Python · GitHub
Yet another social media cross-posting tool in Python - aitorres/barkr

ICYMI: Anthropic’s Claude Code CLI tool source code has been leaked via a map file in their npm registry
https://github.com/chatgptprojects/claude-code

GitHub - chatgptprojects/claude-code
Contribute to chatgptprojects/claude-code development by creating an account on GitHub.

FreeBSDKit
A framework for building secure, capability-aware applications on FreeBSD.
<https://github.com/vIsNotUNIX/FreeBSDKit/>
＂FreeBSDKit provides idiomatic Swift, C and C interfaces to FreeBSD's unique system features including Capsicum sandboxing, jails, pr…

The Tenor API is being decommissioned in June of this year. If you have some favorite GIFs on Discord you don't want to lose, I made a little userscript script to get a list and download them:
https://github.com/darius-it/discord-gif-exporter
This is also useful if y…

Google `speech transcription linux`:
1. "What's a good STT tool for Linux?" with a few handwavey "you might try..." comments
2. "I couldn't find a good STT tool for Linux, so I made..." posts
[This](https://github.com/OpenWhispr/openwhispr/…

Days Without GitHub Incident
⚙️ #github #incident

I guess Nick Hamze is preparing a #WordPress answer to the #emdashcms. Interesting!
https://github.com/RegionallyFamous/bo

GitHub - RegionallyFamous/bouncer
Contribute to RegionallyFamous/bouncer development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub says all Copilot plans will move to usage-based billing on June 1, replacing premium requests with monthly GitHub AI Credits (Mario Rodriguez/The GitHub Blog)
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilot-is-moving-to-usa…

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.

#bambulab macht schon wieder unfug. Nachdem man letztes Jahr bereits versuchte durch DRM den Druck über alternative Slicer zu verhindern und ziemlich Gegenwind kassiert hat, geht man nun wohl rechtlich vor. Man hat einem #OrcaSlicer Fork Drogungen geschickt. Der Entwickler hätte gegen …

rss-tool 1.2 release adds Markdown Journals and Calendar Heatmaps Latest
Version 1.2 brings two new tools to rss-tools, major improvements to Markdown journal generation, and a broad set of fixes and robustness updates across the codebase.
#rss #atom

Release rss-tool 1.2 release adds Markdown Journals and Calendar Heatmaps · adulau/rss-tools
Release Notes — v1.2 Release date: 2026-04-06 Version 1.2 brings two new tools to rss-tools, major improvements to Markdown journal generation, and a broad set of fixes and robustness updates acros...

@… you're not an idiot 🙂 I think you helped me to discover a bug:
<https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2671>
– and if that bug is invalid, then I'…

from my link log —
Faster C software with dynamic CPU feature detection and IFUNC.
https://gist.github.com/jjl/d998164191af59a594500687a679b98d
saved 2026-03-04 …

post.md
GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

A template for data analysis projects structured as R packages (or not) https://github.com/Pakillo/template by @…

GitHub - Pakillo/template: A template for data analysis projects structured as R packages (or not)
A template for data analysis projects structured as R packages (or not) - Pakillo/template

Самый объективный показатель психического здоровья — это кафельная плитка в GitHub-профиле

😑 seriously?
#nix #nixos

I'm about to lose control, and I think I like it 🎶🎵
I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it 🎶🎵🎶🎶
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/135/

Just released v1.4.0 of my Eleventy Plus Vite starter! 🎉 It is now running Eleventy 3.1.5 and Vite 8. A good moment to dust it off now that @… becomes even more (Build) Awesome. 🏃💨
https://gi…

GitHub - matthiasott/eleventy-plus-vite: A clean and fast Eleventy Starter Project with Vite
A clean and fast Eleventy Starter Project with Vite - matthiasott/eleventy-plus-vite

Gotta look into Trussed and Tillitis again to see what we can do to design a secure #platform with #ownership transfer in mind.
https://

I love my mastodon, but man do I love the Atmosphere and their protocols.
They now have a GitHub-like system built on it, and this adorable blog posting system: https://github.com/hyperlink-academy/leaflet

GitHub - hyperlink-academy/leaflet: A tool for shared writing and social publishing
A tool for shared writing and social publishing. Contribute to hyperlink-academy/leaflet development by creating an account on GitHub.

@…
Wayland support · Issue #35 · outpaddling/desktop-installer — <https://github.com/outpaddling/desktop-installer/issues/35>
Cc…

GitHub addresses two recent incidents and says it aims to improve reliability amid AI growth, focusing on "availability first, then capacity, then new features" (Vlad Fedorov/The GitHub Blog)
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-…

An update on GitHub availability
Here’s what we’ve done—and what we’re still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.

from my link log —
Optimising a pipelined RISC-V core: from naive pipeline to near-superscalar performance.
https://mummanajagadeesh.github.io/blogs/optm-riscv-core/
saved 2026-04-07

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TsFreddie/TUMBLED
TUMBLED Bitmap Font
github.com/TsFreddie/TUMBLED

GitHub - TsFreddie/TUMBLED: TUMBLED Bitmap Font · GitHub
TUMBLED Bitmap Font. Contribute to TsFreddie/TUMBLED development by creating an account on GitHub.

TIL that in :nixos: #nix, "${./mydir}" will survive a garbage collection, but a plain ./mydir will not!
Took me way too long to figure this out. Didn't help that `just` gives a stupid error message about a missing shell when it can't change into its -d working directory. 🤦

Just reports incorrectly if the specified working directory can't be found · Issue #2705 · casey/just
Say we have this justfile: [working-directory: "this-directory-does-not-exist"] pwd: pwd just pwd prints pwd error: Recipe `pwd` could not be run because just could not find the shell: No such file...

GitHub is sinking
GitHub is racing towards the mythical zero nines of uptime. Users are starting to notice that GitHub is now a Microsoft product. Eww!
– by @…
🧑‍💻 https://dbushell.com/2026/04/…

GitHub is sinking
The one where I suggest finding the nearest lifeboat

Another step in moving services to the EU / self-hosting:

TripIt is great, but it has been stagnant for the last decade or so.
I am giving Trek (https://github.com/mauriceboe/TREK) a go. It might be vibe coded, but it seems to do the job.
I just have to add nicer imports from emails.…

from my link log —
pg_jitter: lighter-weight multi-backend JIT for PostgreSQL.
https://github.com/vladich/pg_jitter
saved 2026-03-04 https://dotat.…

GitHub - vladich/pg_jitter: Better JIT for Postgres
Better JIT for Postgres. Contribute to vladich/pg_jitter development by creating an account on GitHub.

A few years ago, I gave a talk at RISC-V on #documentation, with some hints on automatically generating it. They are doing this now in practice for #Baochip:

#Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says #GitHub "no longer a place for serious work"
https://www.

“I Audited $2.1 Billion in Epstein Financial Records. Here's Every Name the Money Touched.”
Update: he deleted the record of Trump (74 million) and Clinton (17 million), but it is still in the GitHub repo.
https://randallscott25-star.github.io/

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TsFreddie/KYANITE
KYANITE Bitmap Font
github.com/TsFreddie/KYANITE

GitHub - TsFreddie/KYANITE: KYANITE Bitmap Font · GitHub
KYANITE Bitmap Font. Contribute to TsFreddie/KYANITE development by creating an account on GitHub.

Beside the {report} package (yesterdays note) there are more tools in the easystats collection. #rstats

GitHub - easystats/easystats: :milky_way: The R easystats-project
:milky_way: The R easystats-project. Contribute to easystats/easystats development by creating an account on GitHub.

from my link log —
pgenie: Type-safe PostgreSQL client code generator.
https://github.com/pgenie-io/pgenie
saved 2026-04-02 https://dotat.at/:/FY5Y5…

Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp, says his terminal application Ghostty will move off GitHub, citing GitHub's frequent outages (Mitchell Hashimoto)
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github

#OpenTelemetry Agent #Skills
https://github.com/ollygarden/opentelemetry-agent-skills

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NightFurySL2001/s-h-sans-webfont
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github.com/NightFurySL2001/s-h-sans-webfont

GitHub - NightFurySL2001/s-h-sans-webfont · GitHub
Contribute to NightFurySL2001/s-h-sans-webfont development by creating an account on GitHub.

There are frameworks like {golem} and {rhino} to make shiny development more robust, but I like the concept of {shinytest2} in providing a testing framework for pure shiny. https://rstudio.github.io/shinytest2/index.html

@… am I missing something, or does <https://github.com/plp13/qman> not advertise the existence of a package for FreeBSD?
I discovered the package by seeking qman in Mas…

After Copilot injected an ad into a pull request on GitHub, referencing Raycast, GitHub says it "disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback" (Sean Endicott/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-ap

Copilot is now injecting ads into GitHub pull requests. It's a disaster.
A developer caught Copilot adding promotional "tips" to code descriptions, highlighting a messy new era of AI slop.

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NightFurySL2001/s-h-serif-webfont
null
github.com/NightFurySL2001/s-h-serif-webfont

GitHub - NightFurySL2001/s-h-serif-webfont · GitHub
Contribute to NightFurySL2001/s-h-serif-webfont development by creating an account on GitHub.

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…

@… I can't yet build qman on Kubuntu.
<https://github.com/plp13/qman/issues/84>

from my link log —
C23 implications for C libraries.
https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://icube-forge.unistra.fr/icps/c23-library/-/raw/main/README.html
saved 2022-11-19

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from my link log —
maiao: Gerrit-style stacked PR management for GitHub from the command line.
https://github.com/adevinta/maiao
saved 2026-02-27 https://

@… 👍
Co-authors include a bot 🙂
Related: last week's update to the issue for FreeBSD-native installation of Claude Code, <https://github.com/anthrop…

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