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Lin Clark

@linclark

this account is broadcast-only atm stuffing my head with code and turning it into @codecartoons. prev: @Fastly, @mozilla, @npm, @drupal

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Joined February 2009
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Exciting news: I’ll be code cartooning again soon! 🥳 With WebAssembly’s component model now becoming a Real Thing, I feel like I can step away from my current role. And now I get to explain things again! 🥰 Sign up for email updates code-cartoons.ghost.io/
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✨Damos la bienvenida a nuestra speaker invitada en #JSConf México🤩 @linclark es investigadora, educadora independiente y creadora de Code cartoons. Con una carrera enfocada en herramientas para desarrolladores y estándares web. 👉🏻Aparta tu lugar en jsconf.mx/
Image from JSConf MX 2026 | 29 & 30 de Oct GDL 🇲🇽 (@jsconfmx)
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This is fantastic, excellent, industry-changing news. – at Portree, Scotland
Lin Clark (@linclark) profile pictureLin Clark@linclark20 Sep 2022
It’s time for Wasmtime One-Dot-OHHHH! Here’s how we made it: - Super fast 🚀 - Super safe 🔒 - Super production ready 🦾 Plus: Why use a standalone WebAssembly engine in the first place? bytecodealliance.org/article…
Wasmtime Reaches 1.0: Fast, Safe and Production Ready!

Wasmtime Reaches 1.0: Fast, Safe and Production Ready!

As of today, the Wasmtime WebAssembly runtime is now at 1.0! This means that all of us in the Bytecode Alliance agree that it is fully ready to use in production.

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It’s time for Wasmtime One-Dot-OHHHH! Here’s how we made it: - Super fast 🚀 - Super safe 🔒 - Super production ready 🦾 Plus: Why use a standalone WebAssembly engine in the first place? bytecodealliance.org/article…
Wasmtime Reaches 1.0: Fast, Safe and Production Ready!

Wasmtime Reaches 1.0: Fast, Safe and Production Ready!

As of today, the Wasmtime WebAssembly runtime is now at 1.0! This means that all of us in the Bytecode Alliance agree that it is fully ready to use in production.

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🔒 And for more detail on the way we think about security, check out @fitzgen's break down: bytecodealliance.org/article…
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Interpretive ringtone dance. Some of these are great. nitter.cf/AreyBangdu/status/1545…
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what computer thing(s) are you trying to learn/get better at right now?
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delighted to announce that my new zine "How DNS Works!" is out today! You can get it here for $12: wizardzines.com/zines/dns
Image from 🔎Julia Evans🔍 (@b0rk)
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it's cool how every NPM dependency developer you've never heard of has a red phone to destroy your hard drive
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the most important HTTP request headers wizardzines.com/comics/reque…
Image from 🔎Julia Evans🔍 (@b0rk)
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After years of perf optimizations, JS is running way faster in the browser Today, we're starting work to optimize JS perf in places where different rules apply, like Serverless and iOS devices And this is possible because of WebAssembly 🚀 bytecodealliance.org/article…
Making JavaScript run fast on WebAssembly

Making JavaScript run fast on WebAssembly

JavaScript in the browser runs many times faster than it did two decades ago. And that happened because the browser vendors spent that time working on intensive performance optimizations.

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With these techniques, we can get cold starts that are more than 13x faster than JS isolates 😱
A graph showing startup latency times. JS isolate takes 5ms and JS on Wasm takes 0.36ms.

ALT A graph showing startup latency times. JS isolate takes 5ms and JS on Wasm takes 0.36ms.

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Another benefit of JS on Wasm: better security through isolation
a cartoon captioned "Risk between requests". It shows burgalers in a room filled with papers saying "Oooh payday... check out what they left behind!"

ALT a cartoon captioned "Risk between requests". It shows burgalers in a room filled with papers saying "Oooh payday... check out what they left behind!"

a cartoon captioned "Risk between modules". It shows a tree of modules with a module at the bottom being exploded and other modules in the tree getting hit by shrapnel.

ALT a cartoon captioned "Risk between modules". It shows a tree of modules with a module at the bottom being exploded and other modules in the tree getting hit by shrapnel.

a cartoon captioed "isolation between requests". It shows the same bugalers, but in a totally clean room saying "Nuthin'... they didn't leave nuthin' behind."

ALT a cartoon captioed "isolation between requests". It shows the same bugalers, but in a totally clean room saying "Nuthin'... they didn't leave nuthin' behind."

a cartoon captioned "isolation between modules". It shows a module graph with each module having its own box around it, and the explosion from the exploding module being contained to its own box

ALT a cartoon captioned "isolation between modules". It shows a module graph with each module having its own box around it, and the explosion from the exploding module being contained to its own box

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