first time i've ever created a Rust CLI app using Clap without having to open the docs to get the format right. feels good

using AI for a coding task: > here is a solution! > no, wrong because of X > you're absolutely right! let me fix that... > nope, wrong because of X and Y > correct! let me amend that... > no, wrong because of A, B, and now C > you're right! i'll fix that right up... and so it goes on and on and on

i love writing about crypto crime because these dudes do this constantly

Cloudflare? more like CLOWNflare, amiright?

you can say what you want about Rust language design and the `unwrap()` call but if you're a company like the size of Cloudflare and writing production-critical code in Rust that powers the internet, you _probably_ shouldn't be using `unwrap()`

it's almost like making something that can take down the entire process a single short function call that is literally the easiest way to handle failure wasn't a good idea. who would have thought

#rustlang hot take: We should rename .unwrap() to .or_panic(). (And .expect() to .or_panic_with().) "Unwrap" is a terrible name for the panicking function, especially since we also have things like .unwrap_or() and .unwrap_or_default() which never panic.

cloudflare's rust code unwrapping in production smh

god dammit cloudflare

> check email just before logging off > "URGENT - [Tool Name] Issue" > close browser window > turn off slack don't bring that shit to me at 16:30 on a Friday afternoon

> this is overly complicated, why the hell do Rust devs write things like this > try it simpler > doesn't work > in order to make it work efficiently, need complicated stuff > i see how it is now

my favourite tourist thing in scotland is when people take the steam train along the West Highland line to the village of Mallaig only to realise it's a small fishing village that you can explore in 10 minutes and then have to wait 2+ hours for the return leg of the journey

“AI” is just a tool like anything else. it is not a god or an end-all, be-all. if we could just stop taking every single cycle of tech bro hypeshittification seriously the world would be so much better off

achievement unlocked: used 5 internal system acronyms in a single sentence

i've build a lot of stuff over the years and the thing i'm most proud of? not the robots, not the super low-latency APIs, but a silly Bluesky bot that posts Magic: the Gathering art every hour. costs next to nothing to run on AWS and all written in Rust. @moxarcana.com get across it

another day, another linked list reversal avoided

when i first started writing Rust, i thought i'd be building well-oiled performant libraries that run like with the intricacies of a Swiss watch. what i end up making is a loud, clunky, diesel-powered monstrosity that's in some desperate need of WD40 but boy does it run well

ooooooo rusty burn

there exists a company in glasgow that specialised in automated chemistry and AI-discovery of new molecules. they recently opened a multi-million £££ complex to enable this. it's funny to think that none of that would have happened if a glass syringe didn't explode in my face

> team release a change > breaks everything downstream > rollback and try to triage the issue > turns out comparing a string with a number is a bad idea > fucking javascript > typescript rewrite brought forward

And what hole does rust go in? Why, the C hole, of course!

> with Rust atomics, you can use all different kinds of memory ordering! > sequentially consistent. > yeah, but there's more like Acquire, Release, Relaxed, and eve- > sequentially. consistent. > ...

one of my Rust crates is approaching 20k downloads. now, is 99.9% of those just different registries re-indexing or whatever? yes. but i don't care, downloads are downloads i guess

What really makes IaC special is that it makes those bugs easily reproducible

Be careful with your Halloween candy this year, someone tried to hide the Danish Language in this one.

fighting the rust borrow checker? bring out ol' reliable and forget it even exists

I'm very sorry!

These are my daughters #cats #catsofbluesky

kotlin can do anything

> makes a one-line change to an Elixir repo in work > adds 'Elixir developer' to CV

lol azure

this but ignoring the making it fast part because i'm a corvid who gets easily distracted by shiny things and never gets round to making it fast

all software is a mess some messes just look more organised than others under that facade of a clean room is a closet filled with trash just waiting to burst out

Which brings us to the age-old question: Has nobody done this before because it's hard? Or because it's really fucking stupid?

i have returned from vacation. my next work sprint won't know what hit it

there’s a cat cafe in reykjavík

i thought it was just a name, not an actual Blue Lagoon

vatnajökull absolute behemoth

these things are massive

WIMDY

glacier lagoon

island views from today

island sunset javascript can’t hurt you out here

threek

> i go on vacation > aws has a major outage i have the power over aws

on langjökull glacier @nanami.codes the glacier water and ice are fantastic

fjaðrárgljúfur canyon

kælan mikla dansar undir köldum norðurljósum space dust over iceland