Excited to see how this plays out. Looks like there’s basically nothing implemented yet though.

So while not technically “secret sauce,” it’s certainly “special sauce.” Good point.

Apple designed the silicon to have an “x86 mode” for the memory model ordering, as well as an undocumented mode that makes certain arm instructions set flags similarly to x86. There’s a good write up of the reasons here: https://dougallj.wordpress.com/2022/11/09/why-is-rosetta-2-fast/

I’m pretty sure it already generates thumbnails for the posts, so they may be able to reuse that code for the sidebar. Or @Ruud could just point it at a smaller image. One of these choices is much easier than the other :)

They breached the data back in February and were waiting for the IPO… I guess this is a better use of the leverage, although there’s no chance it goes anywhere