My new job nnethercote.github.io/2025/09/16/m...

New blog post: Faster Rust builds on Mac nnethercote.github.io/2025/09/04/f...

New blog post: Speed wins when fuzzing Rust code with `#[derive(Arbitrary)]` nnethercote.github.io/2025/08/16/s...

New blog post: I am a Rust compiler engineer looking for a new job nnethercote.github.io/2025/07/18/l...

New blog post: How much code does that proc macro generate? nnethercote.github.io/2025/06/26/h...

CHOCOLATE: you are two of my oldest, dearest friends, and I think you are gonna get along great PEANUT BUTTER: uh MINT: *cough*

New blog post: nnethercote.github.io/2025/04/08/a...

Island A: everyone gets 2000 calories a day Island B: you and your friends get 1600 calories a day and everyone else gets 1200 so many people would pick Island B without hesitation

The same breakfast every day for a year? Sure The same dinner three days in a row? Get the fuck out, now

New blog post: How to speed up the Rust compiler in March 2025 nnethercote.github.io/2025/03/19/h...

that feeling when multiple catastrophes are approaching and you wonder which one will hit first

today I saw a McDonalds in a Walmart and it was the most American thing I've ever seen

New blog post: Streamlined dataflow analysis code in rustc nnethercote.github.io/2024/12/19/s...

I had a conversation with someone about generative AI and one of his positions was basically "artists have had it too easy for too long and it's time big tech put them in their place", whoa

it's strange at first, but you get used to it after a while

Metamucil, aka Old Person Fanta,

"For sale: baby" is half the length and way sadder

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/... lol "I’m a nephrologist — a kidney doctor. I think about water all the time" "I remain certain that you should drink > 0L and < 20L every day" "Drink when you’re thirsty. Drink a bit more if you’d like. But no need to push it. Your kidneys won’t let you anyway."

In a TicketMaster Australia account if you want to update your phone number it sends an authorization code to the old number, for fuck's sake

Google's search "AI Overview", for when you have a question but you don't mind if the answer is wrong

Joe: Can I have that 2x4 for free? Steve: You think lumber grows on trees?

up next: the world's first appendix transplant

Who made condone/condemn and secular/sectarian, antonyms? confusing, please fix

To get the rhythm of Pyramid Song just listen at 1.5x speed

tfw your phone bleeps but there's no visual notification of any kind

I heard the Tesla models S/X/3/Y are all derived from the original Tesla founders' designs and the Cybertruck is the first full Elon model and ohhh, now it all makes sense.

Courtesy of the The Blue Willow Inn Bible of Southern Cooking, what a recipe

when I was a kid you weren't allowed to punch people who smoke indoors, hard to believe

"I learned something when I was young and now people are telling me it's wrong/changed and I am FURIOUS"

Today's mass posting brought to you by "I'm deleting all my tweets because Twitter now sucks and some of the good ones can live on somewhere else".

I love Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez/Australian Olympic Committee ambiguity

The best books reviews on Amazon: "book cover was damaged. one star."

Australia's gift to the world en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_He...

"Daddy, have you heard of New Kids On The Block?" "Daddy, have you heard of The Beach Boys?" "Daddy, do you know the song Yankee Doodle?"

Hilary Mantel's Bring Up The Bodies has eleven Thomases: Cromwell, Avery, Wolsey, More, Howard, Boleyn, Seymour, Wyatt, Cranmer, Wriothesley, and Audley.

"fortnight" is short for "fourteen nights", hot damn

The wonder of surveys, an example. Would you murder your mother for $5? - 73% no - 27% yes Of those 27%: - 9% misunderstood the question - 4% input/coding error - 12% are trolling - 2% are genuine

Tom Holland Lip Sync Battle www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...

banger of a tweet, this one, 10/10, nailed it

From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza: 'The word Influenza comes from the Italian language meaning "influence" and refers to the cause of the disease; initially, this ascribed illness to unfavorable astrological influences.'

A list of surprising US state capitals: - Juneau, AK - Jefferson City, MO - Carson City, NV - Frankfort, KY - Olympia, WA - Sacramento, CA - Tallahassee, FL - Springfield, IL - Albany, NY - Harrisburg, PA

what fool called it "transphobia" and not "moral TERF-itude"

"passes muster" and "cuts the mustard" mean the same thing, what a world we live in

A list of American universities named after compass points, in order of increasing geographic improbability: - Northeastern University - Eastern University - Southeastern University - Southwestern University - Northwestern University

I wish I didn't have to know the names of so many US counties.

🇺🇸Fries 🇦🇺Chips 🇬🇧Crisps 🇦🇺Chips

I don't like the phrase "democracy is fragile". A well-established democracy doesn't break easily. It takes years of undermining to break one. Maybe "democracy needs protection" or "democracy needs constant renewal" would be better.

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" is such sentimental bullshit

envy sounds like a sin invented by a rich person