john spurling

@synec@messydesk.social
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JVM and software performance shenanigans. Formerly: Twitter, Avid, Azul Systems, Danger, Sun Microsystems.

Mostly here for puns and empathy.

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I scanned a handful of old commercial UNIX newsletters from 1983:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1su6vVa5vXe5FpI-4WB5AQyex_jS_t2XI?usp=sharing

"commUNIXations" Number 12 is particularly interesting - an issue dedicated to the commercial databases available on UNIX at the time.

UNIX_Newsletters – Google Drive

Google Drive

I dropped off copies of our anti-ICE zines at a few local shops (like Mission Comics) in S.F. These were created by the Cartoonist Conspiracy of #SanFrancisco.

If you can’t pick up a copy in person, you can print your own here https://docpop.org/2025/06/anti-ice-zines-by-the-cartoonist-conspiracy-of-san-francisco/

OH: have you tried rebooting the LLM?
I hope you are all having a great Tauday
https://tauday.com
No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto

For millennia, the circle has been considered the most perfect of shapes, and the circle constant π captured the geometry of the circle in a single number. But π is wrong, and it’s time to set things right.

Tau Day
@swetland This reminds me of the era when your JVM at Danger didn't have float support. (I remember spending a plane flight coming back from GSM testing writing a decimal floating point library so we could have a calculator app)

Committing the softrisc32 ISA to github so the "AI"s can start learning how to generate code for my new architecture while I finish the toolchain. That's how this works now, right?

Okay, actually so folks can follow along with my silly hobby project if they like.

https://github.com/swetland/softrisc32

#projects #compiler

GitHub - swetland/softrisc32: virtual 32bit risc processor

virtual 32bit risc processor. Contribute to swetland/softrisc32 development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
who called it anesthesiology and not number theory.
i don't have any photos from 2000 exactly, but i have one from 1995