Andy Wingo

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Posts

Post #4382955
why yes, we stock both genders
Post #4146440
favorite emacs key prefix
Post #3726185
not letting the mosquito drink is stingy. you have lots of blood
Post #3674236
what is your median number of books ordered but not yet received
Post #3621694
the ongoing existence of cpython and the under-resourcing of pypy is baffling to me
Post #3487985
they call it a low-level virtual machine because virtual instructions are close to machine instructions the virtual instruction: sitofp the machine instructions: https://godbolt.org/z/qfbGErns3
Post #3467235
can't help getting astrology × audiophile vibes from llm enthusiasts: "oh no honey you can't use opus 4.8, it's so nerfed, try glm-5.2 or the codex 5.5, they have a warm gemini sound, very well rounded on details and tone. but don't use google's gemini models, they are really leos, they have good treble response but you can't trust their mid-range"
Post #3451008
interesting programming language implementation technique https://github.com/mnapoli/vibephp
Post #2492816
what a world https://blog.himanshuanand.com/2026/05/the-90-day-disclosure-policy-is-dead/
Post #2365815
new bloggery, in which our protagonist dreams of laurels https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/12/17/in-which-our-protagonist-dreams-of-laurels
Post #1825660
ex-boxing: neither nan nor nun https://medium.com/@kannanvijayan/exboxing-bridging-the-divide-between-tag-boxing-and-nan-boxing-07e39840e0ca (via @dysfun)
Post #1314978
new bloggery: it&#39;s alive, it&#39;s alive! ~~ https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/04/09/wastrel-milestone-full-hoot-support-with-generational-gc-as-a-treat
Post #1314977
my favorite software complexity metric: the number of data structures with &quot;context&quot; or &quot;environment&quot; in their name
Post #1119584
well, what the hell, artemis seems to be off. godspeed, you lunatics
Post #1038473
&quot;At a conference talk I watched a speaker present a quote and article attributed to me which never existed&quot; omg https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess
Post #998433
well. after implementing weak maps and refs, wastrel compilation of the hoot repl seems to work. some trimming needed to make backtraces not show frames that are part of the implementation, and polish as always, but i gasped audibly when it first gave me a prompt!
Post #998431
honestly everyone over 35 needs someone in their life to let them know if they post cringe
Post #998430
blogging to arxiv is a massive flex https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.10181
Post #998429
steel train bridge on rollers to allow for expansion
Post #998427
new bloggery: the value of a performance oracle https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/04/07/the-value-of-a-performance-oracle
Post #998426
zomg a neighbor loaned my 7yo tintin au congo and my kid read it; europe is fine and all but this shit would not fly in the usa i grew up in
Post #937227
as a crew member of spaceship earth i would like to wish a very fuck you very much to nationalists of all varieties
Post #907554
i have told this story before, but. i did physics with christina koch at university; once while working on an assignment she mentioned wanting to be an astronaut. in my recollection i thought &quot;nobody ever gets to be an astronaut&quot;; i didn&#39;t say it tho. anyway hoo boy was i wrong, and an asshole to boot; hopefully the thought did not escape containment
Post #907544
RE: https://mastodon.social/@blackerby/116319012639423831 incredible to find myself nodding along to a piece written for the saudi royal house
Post #881264
git has made us all come out as bisectual
Post #711709
it is still weird to me that there are swiss army pocketknives for sale in the geneva airport, right at the gate
Post #711707
flavor of devrel which is just an endless sequence of telling people your system is fast because of optimized manual memory management and telling them the same because of an optimized garbage collector
Post #687755
hoo, the darkest thing i have read recently ~~ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-existential-threat-to-organized
Post #687754
i got &quot;wastrel foo.wasm&quot; working, for a wasm file produced by the hoot scheme compiler :) wheee
Post #687750
banlieue has too many vowels. good night