Andy Wingo

finalise is short for "filer à l'anglaise" and is for when you notice that an object is gone without saying goodbye

there is probably a nonempty set of free software developers that would never post a reaction gif. not because cringe; rather, out of caution with respect to the gif patent

tracepoints: gnarly but worth it

https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/02/14/tracepoints-gnarly-but-worth-it

going to fosdem this weekend, hmu if you want to chat, or catch my talk on the whippet gc library on sunday ~~~ https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6066-the-whippet-embeddable-garbage-collection-library/

new bloggery, on human rights and human wrongs https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/01/21/here-we-go-again

new bloggery: ephemerons vs generations in whippet, in which we think about ephemerons some more

https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/01/09/ephemerons-vs-generations-in-whippet

passé : worse is better
outré : worse is worse
respecté : getting better over time

apparently power-over-ethernet can go to 100 watts DC these days, it would be funny to see a usb-c wall outlet wired as a PoE device

tfw you want to reserve a terabyte of virtual memory, u will surely not regret building a system that reserves a terabyte of virtual memory,,,

new takes from the take factory: fedi is for losers https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/09/24/fedi-is-for-losers