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Jordan

jrose@social.belkadan.com

<p>He/him or they/them, but not both. Formerly Swift at Apple, now at Signal.</p>

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    Recommendations for Linux laptops in 2026? probably gonna stick with x86want to build little programs, but it’s okay if it isn’t great for building LLVM. though ideally not slower than my 2019 Intel MacBook Pro…okay with not playing high-end games, but would kind of like the option to play middle-level games (I don&#39;t expect this to be especially limiting these days)might still want to edit videos sometimes95% of the time it&#39;s plugged in anyway, but 5% of the time I’m trying to use it on...

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    Lazyweb: people still talk about Cohost’s home view that shows a limited number of posts per person, so one loquacious person won’t dominate your feed. Has anyone made a Mastodon client that does that, specifically only using local storage? (as a web app or a native app) I found https://pillbug.vivl.im/about but it’s written using Node and doesn’t mention where it stores data, which makes me assume it’s on their server.

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    TIL &quot;overmorrow&quot;, &quot;the day after tomorrow&quot; (cognate with modern German &quot;übermorgen&quot;), from RobWords. We should definitely bring this back. (&quot;ereyesterday&quot; I&#39;m less sure of.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK-8gfqmFNo

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    Six years at Signal! (at least three of them were 2020)

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    Tempted to never again donate to anywhere that wants my phone number. Better figure out how to make sure that&#39;s not a compliance issue if you ever want donations again.

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    &quot;Ooh, I love your POSIX-compatible networking library!&quot; &quot;Thanks, it has sockets!&quot;

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    Context: Swift has not officially had a way to expose plain old functions to C until now. Why? Because it had Objective-C interoperability first, and so deciding whether C functions should support everything ObjC does or not was…complicated. You can read about it here: https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals/0495-cdecl.md

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    Talking about compiler work today reminded me of my writeup from *checks calendar* ten years ago on ways to get into working on compilers. I think it mostly holds up! https://belkadan.com/blog/2016/05/So-You-Want-To-Be-A-Compiler-Wizard/

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    @Catfish_Man …also, computers only had one core, so it didn’t help!