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[Luke Dashjr @LukeDashjr]

@KarmaCpu BOLT 12 is Lightning and decentralized.

[Dmitry Iv. @dmitryiv_]

Progress update.

jz 0.7.0
Up to 13× faster than v8 (2.2× mean)

- auto-SIMD, better inference
- benchmark jz/V8/AS/porf/Rust/Zig/C/Go
- 30+ math/sim demos
- site/landing/repl

https://t.co/5gMuYATCX4

[playproject-io @playproject_io]

@dmitryiv_ how about dat?

hyperdrive could pull it off 🙂

[Dmitry Iv. @dmitryiv_]

Sharing progress.

JZ: JS→WASM

• Functional JS subset
• No runtime, no GC
• Competitive with V8 / AssemblyScript

Nearly complete (69% test262).

https://t.co/WxguWC0yB4

[Mathias Buus 🕳🥊 @mafintosh]

Bare is the most underrated piece of software out there https://t.co/QEf7CmXWAf

[Dmitry Iv. @dmitryiv_]

web-audio-api v1 released - matching rust speed.
Pretty wild to play audio graphs right from CLI.
I assume you can vibecode music/synths.

https://t.co/KEre5LkVHI

[Dmitry Iv. @dmitryiv_]

audio-decode v3.1 just shipped 6 new formats.

MP3, WAV, FLAC, Opus, OGG Vorbis, AAC/M4A, AIFF, CAF, WebM, AMR, WMA, QOA.

Decode any audio to raw samples in JS/WASM (node/browser): no ffmpeg or native bindings. Near native speed.

https://t.co/uTrKFHYkhE

[Hannah Rosenberg⚡ @hmichellerose]

For the past few weeks my head has been a swirl of authoritarianism, Epstein files, political instability...

I am full of rage, as any decent person should be. I feel that I should be doing more, but I’m delighted that I wake up each morning & work on decentralized tech.

What is abundantly clear is that the absolute worst of us will do literally whatever is necessary to gain power over others. We can not trust institutions to protect us for very long. The best bet we’ve got is creating systems that do not allow for concentrations of power.

“If you build it they will come”… if you build the concentration of power, it will be co-opted.

Never was it more clear that the best thing we can do here is first to seek justice, but then to build and use decentralized systems.

No one is coming to save us. We gotta do this shit ourselves.

[playproject-io @playproject_io]

@robpalmer2 How does it compare to https://t.co/8IeVy3Upmn ?

[Hannah Rosenberg⚡ @hmichellerose]

Over and over we learn, if you build a massive power structure it will be taken over by the most horrific humans planet earth has ever produced.

The only way to keep humanity from being taken over by psychopaths is to prevent the concentration of power.

[just-js @justjs14]

i am holding the torch🔥😍

[Dmitry Iv. @dmitryiv_]

watr v4.2 can polyfill and optimize wasm. Also has new logo
https://t.co/zvy05EOrP2

[Extractive Ghost of Unhosted Marcellus 👻 @oomahq]

Running 29.2.knots20251110+bip110-v0.1rc2 backed by 360 Th/s of hashpower 🫡

This is what Bitcoin is about!

[Frank @jedisct1]

Fabrice Belliard is back with a new JavaScript engine. https://t.co/biluNEHD4t

[Dat Ecosystem @dat_ecosystem]

We’re thrilled to share that Dat Ecosystem has officially joined the @Apereo Foundation as a fiscally sponsored project. 🎉

https://t.co/2ZEqn2jpVz

[Jonathan Blow @Jonathan_Blow]

I read this article about software development, which I knew about because I saw Prime reacting to it:

https://t.co/oXYuMTRXs0

For the most part I think it is fine: a relatively young programmer is doing the healthy work of introspecting on what he should really be doing.

But there's one part of the article that I think is a deep mistake, and the author doesn't know it's so wrong because he has never experienced the alternative:

"Software doesn’t stay solved. Every solution you write starts to rot the moment it exists. Not now, not later, but eventually. Libraries deprecate. APIs change. Performance regressions creep in. Your once-perfect tool breaks silently because https://t.co/KC2vCoIkWK is now https://t.co/KC2vCoIkWK.2. 2

I have had scripts silently fail because a website changed its HTML layout.
I have had configuration formats break because of upstream version bumps.
I have had Docker containers die because Alpine Linux rotated a mirror URL.

In each case, the immediate emotional response was not just inconvenience but something that moreso resembles guilt."

Yes, this is true in much of the programming world. But there is another world in which people build things that last much longer. I have done it many times. I shipped a binary for this game Braid in 2009 that you can still download and play on Steam 16 years later. If you are pretty young (like 35), you can run binaries on Windows that were compiled before you were even born, which is amazing given how hard they have been trying to f up Windows lately.

On an emulator like MAME, you can play arcade games programmed in 1979. If today's software "technology" is so much better, why does it fall apart like tissue paper?

The author is not wrong about the cited decay. But this decay is not inherent to the practice of software. It's due to choices made, usually foolishly, by the people designing the systems being interacted with. And, it's due to a lack of knowing better, non-exposure to the sector of programmers who are very concerned with their code lasting a long time, actually.

The way you make code last a long time is you minimize dependencies that are likely to change and, to the extent you must take such dependencies, you minimize the contact surface between your program and those dependencies.

The actual algorithms you program, the actual functioning machinery you build, is a mathematical object defined by the semantics of your programming language, and mathematical objects are eternal, they will last far longer than your human life. The goal then is to avoid introducing decay into the system. You must build an oasis of peace that is insulated from this constant bombardment of horrible decisions, and only hesitantly interface into the outside world.

This means, for example: If you are shipping on iOS, you only reluctantly use any functions iOS gives you, because when you use them, Tim Apple will come along and break your program next year for arbitrary pointless reasons, because Tim Apple does not respect you or anyone you know.

This means a program cannot last forever on iOS, because Tim Apple likes breaking your things and watching you submissively clean them up. But the core of your program, which could be 95% of the code, is fine, and you can deploy it elsewhere.

This means you have to insulate from Linux userspace, because of all the jackass decision making that introduces constant incompatibilities while somehow never making the system better.

Using a library dependency to do font rendering or sparse matrix math? That dependency gets checked into your source tree, a copy of exactly the version you use. Ten years later you can pull down that source and recompile, and it works, because your program is a mathematical object. If you want to upgrade to something newer that has bug fixes and so forth, you are free to do so, but you are also free not to do so, and your program still works. (And how many of these bug fixes do you really need? Your program worked correctly when you shipped it to the greatest extent you could measure, because you are a skillful software engineer who wants to ship things of a high quality).

Everyone who got into programming for the joy of it knows, at some level, that the magic of programs is that they represent complexity that is replicable over time (and thus they exist outside of time). But the trashy programmer culture of the past 20 years stopped aspiring to this, and now has forgotten it is even possible.

And so long as people have forgotten, decisions will continue to be made that make the problem worse.

There are programmers who only write glue code, and who think that's what programming is; to these people what I have written above will not make sense. But the good news for that contingent is, they can always just stop writing glue code and start doing something else! If today's software "technology" is so good, why do you think it needs so much glue? Maybe there is a stylistic problem.

So if you are looking for what to do in the world of software that can represent a lasting contribution, maybe this is food for thought.

@NotAShelf @ThePrimeagen

[Samson Mow @Excellion]

@lopp Layer 2’s are able to anchor into Bitcoin just fine without unspendable UTXOs or OP_RETURN limits removed. Can you name the L2 that needs this?

[playproject-io @playproject_io]

🍐🍐

[Paolo Ardoino 🤖 @paoloardoino]

🍐🍐 https://t.co/pqkmXuWTvp

[Feross @feross]

Looking for a Node style runtime but without the standard library?

[Guy Swann @TheGuySwann]

Let’s try a different tactic and I’ll ask everyone:

Can anyone in “crypto” give me a significant and long time growing network whose purpose isn’t to create, trade, or stake other tokens whose purpose is to create, trade, or stake tokens?

Honest question.