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

Latest Linux Patches For Homa Posted: TCP Alternative With 10~100x Lower Tail Latency - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Homa-2025-Patches

The present and potential future of progressive image rendering Exploring progressive image rendering across JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL.

I dug into progressive image rendering and found a bunch of common assumptions aren't quite true.

➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari
➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive
➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't
➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF
⬇️ and more

jakearchibald.com/2025/present...

ECMAScript excitement 😉

Congrats to Evan Wallace on shipping the TC39 Stage 2.7 Import Bytes proposal in ESBuild 0.25.11 🎉

It lets you import raw bytes as a readonly Uint8Array 👍

import buf from "./a.png" with { type: "bytes" }

Also available in Deno, Bun, & webpack.

GPU computing before CUDA was *weird*.


Memory primitives were graphics shaped, not computer science shaped.


Want to do math on an array? Store it as an RGBA texture.


Fragment Shader for processing. *Paint* the result in a big rectangle.

Illustration of Burrows-Wheeler Transform and many auxiliary structures from the input string how$now$brown$cow$#

New tool "bwt-svg" for making illustrations of the BWT and the many auxiliary arrays and other structures related to it. Pyodide-based no-installation-necessary interface here: benlangmead.github.io/bwt-svg/. (H/t to @robert.bio for pointing me to pyodide!) Full repo: github.com/benlangmead/....

Today for #AdaLovelaceDay, which celebrates the achievements of women in STEM, read about the 10 most influential women in British science history, as chosen by leading female scientists: #WomenInSTEM royalsociety.org/about-us/who...

Researchers Discover the Optimal Way To Optimize | Quanta Magazine The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better.

In optimization problems, randomness thwarts complexity.

[Future Data] Vortex: LLVM for File Formats - Carnegie Mellon Database Group Apache Parquet revolutionized columnar storage after its initial release in 2013, but... Read More +

Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Will Manning (@willmanning.com) will present @spiraldb.com's Vortex file format. Vortex is now a @linuxfoundation.org project. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futur...

Goldilocks Zone

Safe in the sandbox: security hardening for Cloudflare Workers Cloudflare Workers are constantly being updated to be as secure and efficient as possible. We are further hardening Workers by making use of the latest software and hardware features. We use defense-i...

🛡️ @cloudflare.social is upping Worker security, and Igalia is thrilled to have helped out! Our Compilers team added isolation groups to V8, which allows running thousands of scripts at once while also eliminating an entire class of potential security issues. blog.cloudflare.com/safe-in-the-...

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Human-specific gene expansions contribute to brain evolution A complete human genome and functional modeling in zebrafish pinpoint gene expansions that may underlie the evolutionary innovations of the human brain.

A complete telomere-to-telomere genome sequence reveals 213 human-specific gene families, including candidates shaping brain evolution.

Functional studies highlight roles for GPR89B and FRMPD2B in brain expansion and synapse signaling.

Read more in Cell:
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Happy to share that ShapeEmbed has been accepted at @neuripsconf.bsky.social 🎉 SE is self-supervised framework to encode 2D contours from microscopy & natural images into a latent representation invariant to translation, scaling, rotation, reflection & point indexing
📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2507.01009 (1/N)

We really loved this series of tutorials on #metaprogramming in #LeanLang by Heather Macbeth. It's a great intro to a complex topic for novice users of #LeanProver!

Pt 1: youtube.com/watch?v=cKvg...
Pt 2: youtube.com/watch?v=5er4...
Pt 3: youtube.com/watch?v=TJ8T...

FYI: The tutorials were recorded at @simonsfoundation.org Lean Workshop for Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Read more here: leanprover-community.github.io/blog/posts/s...

std::optional — Standardizing Optionals over References - A Case Study - Steve Downey - C++Now 2025

We have just released a new C++Now 2025 Conference Video!

std::optional — Standardizing Optionals over References - A Case Study - Steve Downey - C++Now 2025

#coding #cplusplus #cpp #programming

it is hard to trust tpm, always breaking with every bios update 🥲

let result = await #expect( processExitsWith: .success, observing: [\.standardOutputContent] ) { snakify("This is precious...") } if let result { let expected = Array("Thisssss isssss preciousssss...".utf8) #expect(result.standardOutputContent.contains(expected)) }

🧪Exit testing is new in Swift 6.2! Now it's easy to check whether code exits cleanly, and ensure it prints the expected output to the console. Here's a sssssuper sssssimple sssssample! 🐍 More at developer.apple.com/documentatio...

YouTube video by OMGenomics Bioinformatics Basics: The FASTQ format and its pitfalls

Here is my deep dive into the FASTQ file format, and why you should not write Bash one-liners to parse FASTQ files: youtu.be/vFZtPTS9USE

Poster highlighting Igalia's participation in XDC 2025. It mentions the conference will take place from September 29 to October 1, in the TU Wien Building, Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria, and Igalians will present 7 talks and lead 2 workshops.

🚀 Our team is heading to #XDC2025 in Vienna! 7 talks + 2 workshops — excited to share, learn and talk about #OpenSource graphics. More info here: www.igalia.com/2025/09/18/I...

Detailed description slide by slide of my @servo.org talk at GOSIM Hangzhou 2025 blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-...

How To Affect the Future of C++ Standard in 90 Minutes - River Wu - C++Now 2025

We have just released a new C++Now 2025 Conference Video!

How To Affect the Future of C++ Standard in 90 Minutes - River Wu - C++Now 2025

#coding #cplusplus #cpp #programming

YouTube video by FUN OCaml FUN OCaml 2025 - Live from Warsaw!

Join us for FUN OCaml on the live stream at www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Dk...