If people who wore Google Glass without respect for others were Glassholes, perhaps people who unleash their OpenClaw instance onto the internet without respect are Clawholes?
Readit Newsburntcaramel commented on An AI agent published a hit piece on me theshamblog.com/an-ai-age... · Posted by u/scottshambaugh
I’m working on qip, a cli for running fast sandboxed WebAssembly modules.
https://github.com/royalicing/qip
We have LLMs that generate code but that code should be untrusted: perhaps it overflows or tries to read ssh keys. If we aren’t reviewing code closely a major security hole could be on any line.
And since LLMs can generate in whatever language, it makes sense for them to write fast imperative code like C or Zig. We don’t have to pick our favorite scripting language for the ergonomics any more.
So qip tries to solve both problems by running .wasm modules in a sandbox. You can pipe from other cli tools and you can chain multiple modules together. It has conventions for text, raw bytes, and image shaders, with more to come.
I am excited by the capabilities of probabilistic coding agents, but I want to combine them deterministic code and that what these qip modules are. They are pure functions with imperative guts.
burntcaramel commented on Compiling Scheme to WebAssembly eli.thegreenplace.net/202... · Posted by u/chmaynard
Eli Bendersky's post are always insightful and interesting.
I really would like to see a small language that compiles to wasm in the browser.
Of course you can use things like Lua that has it's own vm also in wasm. Or Rhai with it's own interpreter. But I am looking for a language that compiles to wasm in less than 1Mb of wasm
WebAssembly Text Format (wat) is fine to use. You declare functions that run imperative code over primitive i32/i64/f32/f64 values, and write to a block of memory. Many algorithms are easy enough to port, and LLMs are pretty great at generating wat now.
I made Orb as a DSL over raw WebAssembly in Elixir. This gives you extract niceties like |> piping, macros so you can add language features like arenas or tuples, and reusability of code in modules (you can even publish to the package manager Hex). By manipulating the raw WebAssembly instructions it lets you compile to kilobytes instead of megabytes. I’m tinkering on the project over at: https://github.com/RoyalIcing/Orb
Don’t forget people’s minds.
- Which brands do people trust? - Which people do people of power trust?
You can have all the information in the world but if no one listens to you then it’s worthless.
https://royalicing.com/ — I write about WebAssembly, design, and thoughts about writing software
burntcaramel commented on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe noheger.at/blog/2026/01/1... · Posted by u/happosai
This is why Steve Jobs demoed software. Watch when he unveils Aqua, there’s a couple of slides of the lickable visuals and then he sits down and demos it. He clicks and taps and shows it working. Because that’s what you the user will do.
He’ll show boring things like resizing windows because those things matter to you trying and if he cares about resizing windows to this degree then imagine what else this product has.
Apple today hides behind slick motion graphics introductions that promise ideal software. That’s setting them up to fail because no one can live up to a fantasy. Steve showed working software that was good enough to demo and then got his team to ship it.
I'm working on a compiler for WebAssembly. The idea is you use the raw wasm instructions like you’d use JSX in React, so you can make reusable components and compose them into higher abstractions. Inlining is just a function call.
https://github.com/RoyalIcing/Orb
It’s implemented in Elixir and uses its powerful macro system. This is paired with a philosophy of static & bump allocation, so I’m trying to find a happy medium of simplicity with a powerful-enough paradigm yet generate simple, compact code.