Building a JavaScript Optimization Engine (Joe) | Probably writing code | often qti3e | 🦀🏳️🌈
San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2022
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Logging off from here, every time I open the app I see nothing but a dystopian nightmare. Why do I care if AI is doing X or Y now?
I'm gonna go enjoy my last weeks before being forced to use AI to code, code like it's 1990s. Me and my vim against the world :)
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This new coffee shop I come to doesn't have outlets, so this is my ritual now, I should probably make a bash script for toggling this.
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The code comments here are pretty informative about the actual cache line size per architecture with a good amount of citations.
github.com/crossbeam-rs/cros…
Most code assumes cache lines are 64 bytes. but that’s a bad assumption on hardware with wider lines.
C++ gives you std::hardware_destructive_interference_size specifically to avoid false sharing without hardcoding a cache line width.
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Came back to the hospital again, got admitted this time, I now know new levels of pain.
p.s: haven't coded for a week :((
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In the hospital, watching Shrek with the husband! I wanna code but my framework laptop is too heavy.
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I'm gonna do this too! This will be unsealed in exactly 1 year.
sha512:6dcf1861ccf14d8ca2e4c9d3907e62604a1d9cb0d1131168de9b733fc1ba3ee4639c386e9fd9dd197b24e895ad9b7edb8d30ed1ab4d2ba06f1defe6ff223ca04
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life update: I signed an offer letter from some company, but it will still likely take months for me to get a work authorization. So still working full-time on my JavaScript engine in the time left.
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Read a very amazing blog post yesterday, read the about page after where the author had said she's suffering from some health issues. Last blog post date more than 2 years ago, no github activity for 2 years. I really hope she's safe 😔
fanael.github.io
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I like mrustc but I wish it was written in anything other than C++, basically in any language with a smaller compiler than a C++ compiler.
github.com/thepowersgang/mru…
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Does anyone actually like blue cheese? I've never seen someone who does, and almost anyone I know irl is physically repulsed by it!?
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Back in the day that was the only option, EVERYONE had to read the manual, it wasn't "art" it was just the job. But in this day an age with all the LLMs if someone decided to hand-code something non trivial from first principles, there is more intentionality into it, and if anything it makes it more of an art.
The sad thing is that you're not gonna get paid to do art anymore, which ironically makes you relate with the broke artist free-spirit stereotype even more?!
So in a way, I'm happy about LLMs, they draw a sharper line between "writing code as art" and "doing it to get the job done"
Now I get to use LLMs at the job, and save my creativity to hand code for myself, which has been a liberating experience. My art is mine now, the job can keep using Kubernetes :))
Old school programmers are the best. He started in the era when programmers were called programmers and read manuals to find out how to do things.
It all went downhill from there Google, Stack Overlow and finally LLMs put the last nail into the coffin of programming as an art.
Nowadays a monkey armed with Claude can do it but these guys are completely different story.
Hard as still sharp as razor faster than lightning.
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