Posting what the devs are up to and enjoying at Fastly + Glitch. You know - docs, code, potions, etc. 📝 💾 ⚗️
OpenAI's new dev tools (see here: https://openai.com/index/new-tools-for-building-agents/) help you accelerate your agentic application builds and Fastly can help you accelerate your APIs once the app is deployed.
Change one line of code to take advantage of instant AI 👉 https://www.fastly.com/products/ai
This is a monumental day for the future of the social web, though it might not be obvious for a while. Mastodon matures its governance model with a great, solid non-profit https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/ and a coalition of independents push to open up Bluesky's AT Protocol: https://freeourfeeds.com/ These two moves together put the most credible players on solid ground for years to come — and set up the open platforms to enable lots of innovation just when it's needed most.
We’re inspired by our Fast Forward program member Watch Duty and the way they’ve been invaluable to everyone in Los Angeles impacted by these devastating fires.
https://gizmodo.com/watch-duty-hits-1-on-apple-app-store-as-wildfires-rage-in-california-2000547740
Does the programming language you are currently using require you to add an explicit break in switch statements or not?
Short survey: What languages do you use to compile to #WebAssembly?
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd5rDVpwMsh0qtGHxvtAMGgc84sIoj9_H8_UBqbs6mH_2i1Vg/viewform?usp=dialog
I’ll publish the results on January 1 as a blog post here: https://2ality.com
:mastodon: Boosts appreciated!
AI is making the internet sloooower and if you’re happy to sit and wait forever during your one short life on Earth then you probably won’t be interested in our semantic caching solution that’s 8x faster.
https://www.fastly.com/blog/what-does-it-all-mean-an-introduction-to-semantic-caching-and-fastlys-ai
Happy 37th birthday on Dec 18th, #Perl !
New Bytecode Alliance blog post: Making WebAssembly and Wasmtime More Portable:
🎄 If pixelated visions of Beyoncé are dancing in your head this Christmas, not to worry – the video streaming pros know how to deliver 🎁
https://www.fastly.com/blog/how-to-save-christmas-for-beyonce
👉 Always ask: What are we trying to accomplish? Will this replace or supercharge our human capital? And will this be used to make decisions, or inform better, more optimal decisions?
https://thenewstack.io/how-dev-platforms-like-vercel-netlify-and-fastly-use-ai/
If you fancy making your own autoposter for Mastodon and Bluesky here's a @glitchdotcom project you can remix, I have absolutely not tested it thoroughly and am still putting together the steps to spinning up your own https://wtf-poster.glitch.me/
wasi-sdk 25.0 is now released!
Highlights include:
- LLVM 19
- Include llvm-dwp utility
- Experimental setjmp/longjmp support (this depends on the Wasm exception-handling proposal, which many non-browser Wasm engines don't support yet, but it's a step)
https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-sdk/releases/tag/wasi-sdk-25
Time for the annual State of Rust Survey! 📝✨
Whether you've just begun using Rust, are an experienced Rust user, stopped using Rust, or might use Rust in the future, we'd like to hear from you!
Available in seven languages and open until December 23rd:
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/12/05/annual-survey-2024-launch.html
Attending the @devs Holiday Meetup in Stockholm with the venerable @shortridge and the great Nordic team.
As part of my work globally on edge compute platforms, it’s always great to see what the rest of the community is doing with WebAssembly and edge computing.
After following Kelly for years on social media it’s great to hear her perspective, however brief, on security, including responsiveness to security incidents.
Bad idea: build a captcha library that embeds DOSBox so it can make you beat levels/puzzles from DOS games to continue.
Prove you're a human! Beat Lifewater Oasis from Commander Keen 4! Defeat the Yeti in Kings Quest 5! Make sure 15 lemmings survive! Get the sword in Prince of Persia!
Fastly's Wasm team is hiring:
What do WASI programs and superheros have in common?
A. They have Cape Ability based security.
girl are you the ipv4 address space because you seem completely exhausted
Since this topic continues to come up, I wrote a blog post about algorithms and how they affect social media feeds
https://dev.to/suesmith/lets-talk-about-algorithms-and-social-media-aj3
