WASI is developing a portable, sandboxed system API so you can run WebAssembly outside of a browser: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/03/standardizing-wasi-a-webassembly-system-interface/
WebAssembly has a ton of people doing interesting things, but I do feel there's some overlap with what the JVM planned to do.
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A really fun (10 minute) talk on developing an LLVM backend for 6502, a chip with only three registers and a teeny tiny stack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lW3WHPtmKo
TIL about actionlint, a static analysis tool for GitHub action YAML files: https://github.com/rhysd/actionlint
Seems really useful, developing actions can be tricky.
I really like instruction counts for measuring performance. It's not perfect, but it's a very stable metric, even if I'm listening to music whilst developing and benchmarking.
