🎤 PlanetNix 2026 speaker highlight

Sam Fu (Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic) is joining PlanetNix with a deep-dive war story:

Nix Builds 🤝 K8s Dev Environments: A Love Hate Relationship in 5 Acts

See you in Pasadena? 👀

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#PlanetNix 2026 Speaker Announcement!

Join Surma and Eelco for their talk: builtins.wasm: Nix Meets WebAssembly.

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What I've learned over the last 1.5months of writing a GUI library: blog.s-schoener.com/2026-02-09-g...

Surprise!
Live++ hot-reload running on SteamDeck Proton.

This is a debug build with the SteamDeck connected over Wifi. Final performance will be <1s reloads.

Proton 10.0-4 is now live.

github.com/ValveSoftwar...

Coherent optics 😎

Staying true to my one trick pony ethos.

SwiftTerm, running a poor man's Evolution email client written in TermKit using MailFoundation and MimeFoundation:

We're pleased to see Zink enabling the first Gallium-free Mesa driver—an important milestone for the graphics and RISC-V ecosystem.

Igalia at FOSDEM ’26 | Igalia Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and cl...

We’ll be out in force at @fosdem.org '26 at the end of this week, with eight talks on a wide variety of topics—the latest on @servo.org, GStreamer work, graphics stacks, MathML interop, WebAssembly runtimes, handing out Servo stickers, and more! www.igalia.com/2026/01/26/I...

> Visual Studio 2026 and later versions don't support C++AMP, the ARM32 toolchain, and /DEBUG:FASTLINK

I wonder where people going from old AMP codes

Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct inte...

Your favorite C library, now with Swift superpowers. 🦸

New post: how to transform C APIs into idiomatic Swift, with enums, automatic reference counting, and argument-labeled methods. Best of all: no header changes needed, thanks to API notes! 🥳 www.swift.org/blog/improvi...

Call for Submissions for IWOCL 2026 has been extended until January 25th!

Get your submission in now and join us in for another inspiring workshop!
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#OpenCL #SYCL #IWOCL2026

Join us at Vulkanised 2026 and ask your questions to our world-leading panel of experts

Register now for Vulkanised 2026, the largest event dedicated to developers using the Vulkan API, and bring your questions to be answered by our world-leading panel of experts!

Explore the agenda and register today: vulkan.org/events/vulka...
#vulkan #api #Vulkanised2026 #graphics #developer

2025/12/03: Natalie Collina, "Swap regret and correlated equilibria beyond normal-form games" 2025/11/19: Haotian Jiang, "Beck-Fiala and Komlós Bounds Beyond Banaszczyk" 2025/11/05: Aparna Gupte, "Quantum One-Time Programs, Revisited" 2025/10/22: Ian Mertz, "A Random Walk Down Full Memory Lane" 2025/10/08: Janani Sundaresan, "Distributed Triangle Detection is Hard in Few Rounds"

The recordings (and slides when provided) of the previous season of TCS+ are now available!

Website: www.tcsplus.org/welcome/past...
YouTube: www.youtube.com/@TCSplusSemi...

MSYS2 like environment with nix or guix will be fun

I ❤️ gcc and glibc sometimes

it was great journey. do you believe ? 🥲

thanks

steam client in windows is 64 bit (beta), end of era

I'm experimenting with this format. Is it… good? Like, should I do more of this kind of thing? Critical feedback welcome!

On Async Mutexes, matklad writes

matklad.github.io/2025/11/04/o...

cpp2better, an il2cpp postprocessor | Sebastian Schöner It’s been a while since I last talked about cpp2better. Time for an official “here it is” post. What is cpp2better? cpp2better is a tool that hooks into your build pipeline for Unity to achieve better...

Do you want to improve the performance of your il2cpp Unity projects, without changing your code or your assets? My il2cpp build processor cpp2better is now officially available (on request). Reach out to me, details here: blog.s-schoener.com/2025-11-04-c...

GitHub - mohsenzakeri/Movi: Fast, Cache-Efficient, and Scalable Queries on Pangenomes Fast, Cache-Efficient, and Scalable Queries on Pangenomes - mohsenzakeri/Movi

1/6 Movi 2 is here: faster and more space-efficient for pangenome queries. Its fastest mode uses half the memory of Movi 1 while running ~30% faster. github.com/mohsenzakeri...

OpenBSD 7.8 released

marc.info?l=openbsd-an...

www.openbsd.org/78.html

Watch 2019 Turing Award Recipient Ed Catmull discuss LucasFilm. Full lecture here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdPX...

Speeding up C++ functions with a thread_local cache https://lemire.me/blog/2025/10/19/speeding-up-c-functions-with-a-thread_local-cache/

BioImage Computing a truly interdisciplinary workshop

We’ll be presenting at the #BIC workshop at @iccv.bsky.social! This year’s BIC has amazing speakers 🌺 — join us on 19 October at the Honolulu Convention Center to explore cutting-edge methods at the intersection of computer vision and biology 🔬 #ICCV2025 More details: www.bioimagecomputing.com