Max Desiatov 🇺🇦

@maxd
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#Ukrainian software engineer, working on #WebAssembly support in @swiftlang
Stand with Ukraine!https://vshymanskyy.github.io/StandWithUkraine/
Pronounshe/him or they/them
GitHubhttps://github.com/MaxDesiatov
Blog (on hiatus)https://desiatov.com

🕯️A 6-year-old girl, Yevheniia Serhiienko, who was wounded during a russian artillery strike in Shostka, Sumy Oblast, has died in hospital.

Her 20-year-old sister Daria was killed in the same attack, shielding her younger sister with her own body.

Fastly has a job opening in the UK, for Compute, Fastly's serverless Wasm compute platform, using Rust.

https://www.fastly.com/about/jobs/apply?gh_jid=7736653

Happy to answer/relay any questions!

#RustLang #Wasm #job

Jobs at Fastly | Fastly

We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit, please apply!

Honestly, this historic heat dome across the West is really hard to put into words for me. Temperatures over 110°F (43°C) in March, shattering all-time monthly records on multiple consecutive days, and not just by a little.

➡️ I can confirm this is human-caused climate change.

Graphic by https://polarwx.com/models/.

Bare-metal Raspberry Pi Pico entirely in Swift, no C code at all. Vector table, boot2, startup code, runtime stubs, all written in Swift using @\section, @\_extern, and @\c.

https://github.com/kishikawakatsumi/pico-bare-swift

Two years ago at #WasmIO I talked about (at that time) experimental support for #Wasm in #SwiftLang. Today I'm back on stage with @katei to present what's new in now official Swift for Wasm! If you're attending, I'm happy to chat in the hallway track  
https://2026.wasm.io/sessions/easy-fast-and-safe-pick-all-three-with-swift-for-webassembly/
WASM I/O • 19-20 Mar • Barcelona 2026

Easy, fast, and safe: pick all three with Swift for WebAssembly • Wasm I/O 2026. A 2-day WebAssembly conference in Barcelona, Spain

Easy, fast, and safe: pick all three with Swift for WebAssembly •WASM I/O • 19-20 Mar • Barcelona 2026
Do you have an existing Swift codebase depending on native C/C++ libraries like SDL, OpenGL, OpenAL, zlib etc that you want to run in the browser or a standalone JavaScript runtime? Then this pitch is for you! 🚀
https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-emscripten-target-support-for-swift/85310
[Pitch] Emscripten Target Support for Swift

Swift already runs in the browser today. Using the WASI target with JavaScriptKit and browser-side WASI polyfills, the community has built projects ranging from ElementaryUI (a SwiftUI-inspired web framework) to real-time graphics with WebGPU. The WebAssembly vision document noted that "browser-specific use cases remain to be addressed in a separate document." This pitch proposes adding the Emscripten target (wasm32-unknown-emscripten) to the Swift toolchain, complementing the existing WASI tar...

Swift Forums

The Russians have published a game on Steam called ‘Ukrainian Warfare: Gostomel Heroes’, which is a perfect example of careful disinformation directed against a specific community.

The game’s description explicitly states that they “want to show what happened in Ukraine at the beginning of this war” when “when it was supposed to end in a matter of days” thanks to “brilliant Russian airborne assault” but then “turned into a years-long slaughter” as result, as the description, suggests, of false promise of “draft peace agreement in Istanbul in March 2022”.

Every word of this description is a lie, but the game is still available on Steam Store and is scheduled for release on 24 March.

I encourage you to report it, for example, as defamatory, which may result in its availability being restricted, for example, to Russia, where the fraudsters will be able to convince themselves.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3902520/Ukrainian_Warfare_Gostomel_Heroes/

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🚨 Wide ranging powers to restrict Internet access in the UK have been voted through 🚨

Ministers will be able to impose digital ID checks, curfews and VPN restrictions without Parliamentary scrutiny.

This can be used on websites, social media, apps and games with no need to show there's any harm to children.

Find out more ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/mps-give-ministers-powers-to-restrict-entire-internet/

#onlinesafety #digitalid #id #privacy #ageverification #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol

MPs give ministers powers to restrict entire Internet

MPs have rejected a Lords amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would allow a social media ban for under 16s.

Open Rights Group
Pitch in your feedback and help shape @swiftlang 's networking vision: https://forums.swift.org/t/prospective-vision-networking/85235
[Prospective Vision] Networking

Hello Swift Community. The Ecosystem Steering Group would like to gather feedback on a prospective vision for Networking in Swift. Vision documents help describe an overall direction for Swift. The actual Swift and Swift ecosystem changes for executing on the vision will come as a series of separate proposals, so concrete details (e.g., specific syntax, API names, etc.) are less important than the overall direction. There is more information about the role of vision documents in the evolution p...

Swift Forums

"Russian state hackers are engaged in a large-scale global cyber campaign to gain access to #Signal and #WhatsApp accounts belonging to dignitaries, military personnel and civil servants. The Dutch intelligence and security services MIVD and AIVD can confirm that targets and victims of the campaign include Dutch government employees."

Read the details here:
https://english.defensie.nl/latest/news/2026/03/09/russia-targets-signal-and-whatsapp-accounts-in-cyber-campaign

#phishing #socialengineering #privacy #cybersecurity #Netherlands #security #government #signalapp

Russia targets Signal and WhatsApp accounts in cyber campaign | Defensie.nl

Russian state hackers are engaged in a large-scale global cyber campaign to gain access to Signal and WhatsApp accounts belonging to dignitaries, military personnel and civil servants. The Dutch intelligence and security services MIVD and AIVD can...