New rust-lang blog post on explicit capture clauses, continuing to document thoughts about ergonomic ref-counting: smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/bl...

can they hit the umpire with a pitch

This is so incredibly condescending from the Seattle Times. Do you also ask male candidates if they'd considered running for an "easier" office?

Bruce Harrell's campaign is fundraising on the need to "fight back against the influence of outside money." The PAC set up to spend on Harrell's behalf has raised $1.2 million so far, compared to the $86,000 raised by the PAC set up for spend in support of Katie Wilson.

The "Bruce Harrell for Seattle's Future" PAC has raised more money from Medina residents than the "Katie Wilson for an Affordable Seattle" PAC has raised overall.

👋 FEEDBACK WANTED ..on this preliminary #rustlang reflection MVP design by oli: github.com/rust-lang/ru... (the PR works, you can compile it and play with it, see rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org)

Rust 1.90.0 has been released! ✨🦀 This release makes LLD the default linker on x86-64 linux-gnu and adds `cargo publish --workspace` to publish an entire workspace all at once! Check out the blog post and release notes for more: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/18/R...

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

Genuinely curious, does anyone have a use case for unbounded channels over bounded ones for message passing between tasks/goroutines/coroutines/etc?

building-systems.xyz/a-memory-pro... TLDR; back pressure is really important. Unbounded channels are a bad idea and dhat-rs is a really cool crate.

Just watched the materialist. Movies based on fantasy romances are back. Recession indicator.

Today's lesson: back pressure is useful. Don't leave unbounded channels in slow, single threaded code.

Looks like a bunch of internet providers in the Seattle area just had issues with their backhaul network. Updating your router's DNS to point to Cloudflare or google's seems to be fixing it.

At this point why not just run macOS on iPads?

I'm here to terrorize my team.

Hell yeah new amos post.

Sound Transit CEO Dow Constantine says the agency is seeing a "trend" toward opening the full 2 Line across Lake Washington by early 2026, compared to late 2025 as had been previously announced.

Just lost an hour of my day because powershell decided to be cute and defaulted to inserting a BOM at the start of a file it created.

Lamenting the lack of monodraw on windows. I just want pretty ascii art in my code.

Finally got on the Balatro train and I get the hype.

Washington isn't real

I was on the lookout for setting up some tests for a client and came across this library: github.com/IBM/mocktail Haven't tried it yet, but the name alone has me sold on it.

Finally got my copy!

🎉 I've bumped github.com/facet-rs/facet from "highly experimental" to just "experimental" — it has a pretty well-designed set of types, the derive macro is quite capable already, the JSON read+write crates are iterative (!!), go play with it!

The wheel of time show really turned it around in the latest season. Season 1 was meh, 2 good and 3 so far has been amazing. Episode 4 might be one of the best episodes of sci-fi TV I've seen so far. #wot

I didn't even get as far as the third sentence before I hit a grammatical error.

It is a special kind of cold and wet in Seattle today.

Have you ever found something so tricky that you needed two weeks to get 200 lines of code exactly right? This release had one of those cases. Here's why 👇 predr.ag/blog/when-is...

My entire kingdom for a compile time checked language for developing CI pipelines.

Back on my bullshit: fighting CI

New blog post: the monad tutorial of my dreams, and maybe of yours! A jargon-free, practical explanation of monads as a design pattern, using Rust and property-based testing as the vehicle

Took some notes I had while building a new system at work, cleaned it up and wrote this piece on deterministic simulation testing building-systems.xyz/deterministi...

I guess I'm "into couch gaming" years old now.

Once the work of abstracting out non determinism is done the benefits are almost immediate. I'm already catching implementation bugs that would've been extremely difficult to nail with regular integration tests.

I do not like the flesh hats.

Kendrick legit the GOAT hater, what a man

rooting for the Eagles because it feels like Philly could really use a good riot

I’ve got the morning shift. This guy is dangerous and unfit to serve and I’m about to explain why. Tune in: www.senate.gov/legislative/...

I've been working on integrating the error handling mechanism outlined by the folks over at Greptime (greptime.com/blogs/2024-0...) into our codebase at work and so far, I'm a big fan. The clarity and additional context has been extremely helpful.

We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one. shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...

My entire kingdom for more roundabouts on hw 2.

Went on a run. Saw a spooky mine. Good times were had.

Inversions are beautiful.

a good PDF will have a computer gasping for air when you open it

Blue eyed samurai might’ve been the best thing I’ve seen on TV in a long time. It’s stunning. Highly recommend 10/10.

I looked into the abyss and it looked back into me. Me after I spent a week looking at k8s tooling.

“I’m going to learn about variance today” — thoughts of the deranged.