"Start grinding now so you can be a level 57 prompt mage" indeed seems silly. Though it seems perfectly plausible that if applying AI tooling in a way they changed your development process, it might draw on skills you don't currently use so much. Most of the discourse is pretty imprecise.
Some additional datapoints on per-query energy consumption of LLMs across a selection of newer models, thanks to figures from Lambda's model cards muxup.com/2026q1/minip...
Some additional datapoints on per-query energy consumption of LLMs across a selection of newer models, thanks to figures from Lambda's model cards muxup.com/2026q1/minip...
There are many tools for unprivileged sandboxing on Linux. You should probably go use one of them. But I wrote shandbox to scratch my itch muxup.com/shandbox
/home/$user/sandbox shows up as /home/sandbox within the shared sandbox, which otherwise can only access explicitly mapped files/dirs.
Unique per-process sandboxing provides a tighther security boundary, but it's also darn convenient having this separate but shared low privileged space.
Preventing agents from reading/writing files you don't want them to access is one obvious use case, but there are others.
There are many tools for unprivileged sandboxing on Linux. You should probably go use one of them. But I wrote shandbox to scratch my itch muxup.com/shandbox
/home/$user/sandbox shows up as /home/sandbox within the shared sandbox, which otherwise can only access explicitly mapped files/dirs.
The EC is putting together an initiative to develop their strategy for open digital ecosystems. Given its potential to push forward the development and funding of open-source software in Europe and beyond, Igalia submitted a response with some suggestions. Read more: www.igalia.com/2026/02/03/I...
Wrote a blog post about the work I've been doing at @igalia.com to implement the Temporal proposal in JavaScriptCore:
blogs.igalia.com/compilers/20...
One of the nice parts of #llvm is that often times you'll find yourself needing to do some sort of non-trivial analysis, but usually there's already a pass for it.
Here's how you can reuse a block frequency analysis to make a chess engine 7% faster on #riscv: lukelau.me/2026/01/26/c...
New blog post on the journey of the new --build-sea flag and how SEA injection works
joyeecheung.github.io/blog/2026/01...
Gödel, Escher, Bachelorette
Thanks for the helpful auto-complete, Gmail.
Graph showing the percentage of respondents deploying Go to various processor architectures. x86-64 85%, arm64 53%, x86 25%, Arm 16%, RISC-V 2%, S390x 1%, and others also at 1%
2% of Golang 2025 survey respondents are deploying their Go software to RISC-V. Take that, s390x! go.dev/blog/survey2...
I'm going to be putting my life savings into an inverse wingo ETF as soon as such a thing exists
If you're thinking of applying to PLISS, you've got three days left! pliss.org/2026/registr...
Graph showing the percentage of respondents deploying Go to various processor architectures. x86-64 85%, arm64 53%, x86 25%, Arm 16%, RISC-V 2%, S390x 1%, and others also at 1%
2% of Golang 2025 survey respondents are deploying their Go software to RISC-V. Take that, s390x! go.dev/blog/survey2...
Plus there's things like Anthropic models hosted on Google Vertex and Amazon Bedrock. In both cases they'd probably take a bit of a hit to keep customers with them...but there are surely limits.
Nice post! You might also be interested in my attempt to get some figures on inference energy usage, but coming from the perspective of the concrete data available in the InferenceMAX benchmarks. muxup.com/2026q1/per-q... Many many provisos and limitations of course
This release contains a bunch of PRs I recently submitted to mark features I contributed to as stable/release candidate. Here is a thread about them 🧵:
It would be neat to have the same chart but for volume (#wafers, normalised to the same size I guess)
A video and notebook on a short Introduction to SMT solvers
colab.research.google.com/github/philz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI2s...
64% of WebKit non-Apple contributions, 20% of Chromium non-Google, 27% of Servo, 39% of test262, and it goes on.
And doing all this as a worker-owned, employee-run cooperative. The world would be a very different place if companies like Igalia were the norm rather than the exception in tech.
Nikita Popov (who sadly isn't on Bluesky) has a great new post. LLVM: The bad parts www.npopov.com/2026/01/11/L...
The move to 'forkserver' as the default start method for ProcessPoolExecutor in Python 3.14 is quite a gotcha docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3... My code was probably broken on MacOS and Windows anyway due to those platforms defaulting to the 'spawn' method.
If we try to use the benchmark results from InferenceMAX to calculate a Watt-hours per LLM query, what do we get? What potential issues are there with the benchmark for this purpose (or in general)? My new post explores this muxup.com/2026q1/per-q...
I finally got round to finishing a much longer post on what we can conclude about Watt-hours per query based on the InferenceMAX benchmarks, and the limitations with this muxup.com/2026q1/per-q...
If we try to use the benchmark results from InferenceMAX to calculate a Watt-hours per LLM query, what do we get? What potential issues are there with the benchmark for this purpose (or in general)? My new post explores this muxup.com/2026q1/per-q...
LLVM Weekly - #627, January 5th 2026. Twelve years of LLVM Weekly, EuroLLVM CfP closing soon, GNU toolchain in 2025 summary, PCH to speed-up LLVM builds, LLVM ABI lowering library starting to land, and more llvmweekly.org/issue/627
Congratulations!
Finished two retrospective blog posts on the journey of require(esm) before 2025 ends:
joyeecheung.github.io/blog/2025/12...
joyeecheung.github.io/blog/2025/12...
Wake up babe, new proposed RISC-V base ISA names just dropped. lists.riscv.org/g/tech-unpri...
How long until we see an rv32lbefx_mafc_zicntr_zicsr_zifencei_zba_zbb_zbs_zca_zfa in the wild?
