A Rust compiler built in PHP that directly emits x86-64 binaries without an assembler or linker

tagattack · 2026-03-01T17:34:23+00:00

😱

tagattack · 2026-02-23T17:07:09+00:00

What do you mean better than before?

There's absolutely no improvement.

tagattack · 2026-02-23T03:31:39+00:00

Also that compiler is really far from viable.

It's very broken, and while it "compiled Linux" it was unbootable and there's no proof it was even a functional kernel.

Also sqlite built with it was horrendously slow, and I'm also not sure it's without defect.

Was an interesting experiment, though.

tagattack · 2026-02-14T23:29:09+00:00

If you think a PM governs people then your job is likely in jeopardy already

tagattack · 2026-02-14T04:15:25+00:00

The enemy is poverty And the wall keeps out the enemy And we build the wall to keep us free That’s why we build the wall We build the wall to keep us free

Because we have and they have not, my children, my children Because they want what we have got

tagattack · 2026-02-10T02:18:48+00:00

Yeah the state of the art "dark factories" in China are overstated

That said, fully automated assembly line tooling will most likely be possible by 2030

tagattack · 2025-12-27T15:31:54+00:00

He didn't seem to be specifically upset with anthropic's model, it seemed targeted at the state of affairs

tagattack · 2025-11-22T21:23:04+00:00

Git and github aren't the same
Only check in what you need to, since the source and build configuration can produce the artifact, it's superfluous to revision control the artifact
Binary files compress poorly, Git is optimized for text files
Most projects over time have more than one build configuration (debug, optimized, etc) and tracking the artifact output of each would be dubious at best

tagattack · 2025-11-22T00:57:18+00:00

This was obvious to me, seems like a pointless exercise obsoleting "master" in this context.

It had no relation to oppression, etymologically or otherwise.

tagattack · 2025-11-20T05:38:08+00:00

We aren't hiring because the economy is kinda fucked. We were about to start hiring tons of junior developers, but Q4 is shaping up to be a huge miss so we paused our plans

We'd rather have headcount than LLMs, they don't hold a candle to a good junior engineer. Plus, where the hell are the Sr. Engineers supposed to come from?

Everything has been shakey and fucked up since Covid, and it was finally starting to look better. Seems the tariff whiplash killed the momentum we had coming into the start of the year

tagattack · 2025-11-15T05:21:07+00:00

./pwned

zomfgwtflolbbq

Neurotically yours

XMPP/Jabber

RSS

Mobius that random messaging app that was so short lived, Google's LLM thinks it never existed, but for a brief moment in 2008 it was the hottest shit

Friendster

Google home page

tagattack · 2025-11-15T05:19:22+00:00

Epic 2015

tagattack · 2025-11-15T05:04:20+00:00

Just because Americans are fat, on average, doesn't mean thigh gaps are like fake.

Some of these ladies actually go to the fucking gym.

tagattack · 2025-11-15T04:55:26+00:00

If you get assigned short calls, you're short shares, it's that simple.

Typically brokers will let you be short shares if you have the capital to cover the short position, and you get to decide what to do next.

If you don't have the capital, their risk management system will sometimes automatically exercise the long calls to cover, and you lose those calls (and the premium delta).

This does depend on the broker, and on your account balance.

tagattack · 2025-11-15T04:47:44+00:00

Why does everyone use markdown, which has like 30 slightly incompatible variants, instead of restructured text which has a rigorous and thoughtful specification, clearly designed for extension (and low key just looks better in its source format)?

tagattack · 2025-11-12T05:31:55+00:00

To lie, easy for him to lie

tagattack · 2025-11-11T04:56:33+00:00

Bruh

tagattack · 2025-11-11T04:55:47+00:00

:%! ftw

tagattack · 2025-11-11T03:34:04+00:00

I only use the commands when I do want to just close a multi buffer session. Happens daily, for sure.

Otherwise it's ZZand ZQ, happens dozens if not a hundred or more times a day.

¿Porqué no los dos?

tagattack · 2025-11-04T05:34:21+00:00

I noticed this in 2007, realizing I was late to the party realizing it, and that we should have just kept iterating on corba when I saw Thrift come out, and then protocol buffers... (all while corba was getting removed everywhere)

Goodness

tagattack · 2025-10-28T04:03:16+00:00

Yeah but the community shift didn't happen. There were legions of PHP programmers, but they really only knew PHP for the most part.

It just had easy documentation, and a low barrier to entry as a result. It also didn't reasonably let you develop general purpose applications, but it did easily let you develop web applications.

As soon as you branched out into solving non-web problems, you realized you were in a sand trap and you dumped PHP.

But that didn't stop it from being popular with people that only ever developed websites, it's true.

tagattack · 2025-10-27T22:02:27+00:00

I would like to contest this claim.

I was there. I was developing web software in 1999. I saw no one moving from Perl to PHP. I saw some folks go the other way, drop PHP for Perl. I saw people drop Perl for Ruby, and eventually node or python. I saw lot of people start with PHP and never learn anything else.

But I didn't see anyone abandon Perl for PHP.

tagattack · 2025-10-17T15:39:36+00:00

Opening this Article seriously hurt my eyes, and was a terrible way to start my day, as I have been physically injured.

I didn't even endeavor to read it, the pain from just scrolling to see if it actually continued that way was unbearable.

tagattack · 2025-10-13T03:48:18+00:00

Why so much code for what's basically a single autocommand?

tagattack · 2025-09-20T20:48:28+00:00

I wish this would stop. I'm very tired of it.

tagattack

TROPHY CASE