Ryan Connaughton 🐢

Very sad news. You didn't have to agree with Ann Widdecombe about everything (or, indeed, anything) but you always knew she was being straight and honest about what SHE thought. A rare thing in politics.

@kellabyte I don't think this is an attack, I think this is just his style of communicating what he truly believes based on his experience - to which we're not privy to. He even ends on 'I respect authenticity, even if that means we disagree'.

The personal attacks on Jarred have not stopped by the way. They have continued on the Zig mailing list.

Tanstack has no marketing budget. They say if you say it 3 times in a row, you summon a reply from Tanner himself. Tanstack Tanstack Tanstack

@shadcn Zed is great

I still need a really good code editor. Are we going too fast in the other direction?

@schrockn @jarredsumner Did you miss the part where ZSF was publically thrown under the bus? Follow the entire chain of events.

I have never actively wanted a programming language to fail but thanks to Andrew Kelley's scurrilous, outrageous, classless post on @jarredsumner 's bun rewrite, I got there. Port every project from Zig to Rust.

There is growing speculation about the enforcement of Labour's social media ban for Under-16s involving restrictions or bans on VPNs. Make no mistake, if this is introduced, it will mean an end to online privacy, and the state will know exactly who is looking at what at all times if they so choose. The only other states with restrictions on VPNs are China, Russia, Iran, Oman, the UAE, Turkey and India. This is a dark direction of policy even for the Labour Party. birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-…

@neiltalap @eatonphil @neiltalap What a useless take, ironically.

@eatonphil The king of recreational languages, zig. That's the language you write software with when you are rich and settled and can do something useless with your time.

"if you don't pass an allocator you can't allocate" "any real world zig program will always pass an allocator to allocate" Not exactly! (And this isn't a cherry picked example, you can find this a lot in bun.) (This is not a dig at Zig. Zig people know this full well.)

@KevinVanCott @Revenode Killing it 💪

Yeah, I've ripped out a lot of "readable" code out of the TanStack Table codebase recently, actually. All in the name of performance. Next week, my next article might be about the overall performance improvements from those refactors. Some refactors were a big deal, and some were more on the micro-optimization side. But micro-optimizations that scale to millions of potential operations can actually have a small noticeable when all added up. I've gotten rid of most `.map`, `.filter`, `.reduce`, and recursion patterns in our library code in favor of a lot more plain `for` loops with many more Sets and Map lookups. And actually, I suspect some of our memory usage savings can be attributed to the amount of closures that these refactors eliminated. As a preview, sorting performance is up to 2x faster than V8, but I haven't developed full benchmarks for that yet.

The blog post is out! Here's the surprisingly simple way that TanStack Table V9 can use a little as 10% memory as it used to. Hint: it takes advantage of Object prototypes tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-…

@Revenode @KevinVanCott He's optimising for performance, not readability

@ryanconnaughton @KevinVanCott Yea Object spread would be more readable Could be more performant too let me write a bench for that

@Jonathan_Blow Windows only?

People really like the demo for Order of the Sinking Star ... but it goes away on Monday morning! If you are interested in high-quality puzzle games, try it out before it's gone! store.steampowered.com/app/4597250/Or…

@Revenode @KevinVanCott Care to share?

@KevinVanCott Wrong way to solve the problem tho

My family is donating another $400,000 to the Zig Software Foundation. Zig is exceptional software. I use AI every day. Zig has one of the strongest anti-AI policies in open source. We disagree on some things, but respect doesn’t require agreement. mitchellh.com/writing/zig-do…

🔺Telegram founder Pavel Durov compares the lack of panic during the sinking of the Titanic with the current lack of awareness in Europe as citizens freedoms are stripped away: “I came here today to tell you-that we find ourselves in a similar predicament. In a similar situation. Our ship. Has already hit the iceberg. We have already started to sink. Without even realizing it. And I'm talking about the ship of our personal freedoms” Continuing giving examples of his personal experiences of fraud and corruption with Russia, the EU and France. Before moving onto Keir Starmer’s UK clampdown on social media: “Thousands of people are getting arrested every year in the United Kingdom for social media posts. You say somethingpolitically incorrect online, you may end up being fined or spend some time in prison in Germany”

Opening Systems Distributed '26: Andrew Kelley's State of the Tagged Union Address! Find out what's cooking in Zig land: recent major advancements, demos of what's close to finishing, and roadmap for the next several years. #systemsdistributed

@KevinVanCott Typescript performance? Gotta be all about that runtime/ux performance surely 🏁

I ended up turning this into a blog post. Here are some of our findings for better TypeScript performance for a modular library like Table V9. tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-…

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026…

@ukhomeoffice Please get better technical advisors to translate what this implicates. In technical terms: this is like the nuclear option (which may or may not be on target). Outright banning under age users from having a device entirely would be a smaller blast radius for comparison.

Big Tech companies like Apple and Google have been given three months to activate built in safeguards on smartphones and tablets to detect and block nude images for children. This will prevent predators from exploiting and abusing victims through their devices, as well as stopping children accessing pornography. If companies do not act within three months, the government will bring forward legislation to force them to activate the technology. This will include fines for companies and, as a last resort, we are exploring criminal liability for tech bosses who fail to comply. 91% of online child sexual abuse reports recorded in 2024 contained self‑generated content. Children as young as five are being groomed, manipulated and coerced by online predators into creating and sharing explicit images. Predators then use these images to blackmail children into creating more extreme content and, in the most horrific cases, children have committed suicide on livestream or engaged in self‑harm. These features are not about surveillance or policing people’s phones - they are about protecting our children from vile predators. Over‑18s will still be able to view adult content by providing proof of age. There is no data collection, no monitoring and no reporting. The device will simply block harmful content across all apps and services. This will make Britain the first country in the world where it is impossible for children to take, share or view naked pictures on their devices.

@tan_stack 👏👏

TanStack Table V9 is now in Beta! A foundational release that introduces: ✅ State management with TanStack Store - (yes, compatible with React Compiler finally) ✅ Advanced re-render management with state subscriptions ✅ Lower memory usage at scale ✅ Tree-shakable features with type-safety ✅ Better feature/plugin extensibility ✅ New utilities for writing re-usable/composable code ✅ Rewritten devtools and debugging options TanStack Table V9 is available for the latest versions of React, Preact, Angular, Solid, Vue, Svelte, and Lit. Read the full blog post down below 👇

@tannerlinsley FYI

Anyone who used a computer between 1985-2010. What’s the one game you still think about?