I'm writing a real async app (as opposed to a toy or example) with tokio, for the first time for me. It's going ok so far. #rust #rustlang

Major plot hole in Zootopia 2: patent records are available from the patent office, you don't have to break into a snowed in cabin to get them.

My local authority sent out a mailer saying compostable plastics are now banned from compost bins, because they don't break down well. Wild.

It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Repeat after me: Rust is a machine that turns security incidents into downtime incidents

A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"

Cheese it, it's the carps

Cryptocurrencies have lasted longer than I would have expected them to

TIL that LLVM has a special optimization that transforms 1+...+n into n*(n+1)/2: users.rust-lang.org/t/why-does-i...

"The insurance business is completely screwy now. You know they've reintroduced the death penalty for insurance company directors?" "Really?" said Arthur. "No, I didn't. For what offence?" Trillian frowned. "What do you mean, offence?" "I see." --Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless"

I am playing D&D with five friends via Zoom and we’re all in our fifties and my young teen self knowing this would be happening would be so happy and satisfied.

fuck the ISO honestly. closed standards for software have no place in our open-source driven world. this is especially an issue now, where high-quality secondary sources are becoming nearly impossible to find.

one thing I really like about Rust for high performance code is the way you can make clean abstractions for hacky optimization that would otherwise be super fragile in other languages. ...

I keep getting into conversations with engineers where I talk about how desperately I want my database to support materialized views with incremental updates and too often I get a blank stare in response. so I wrote a new post about why you should care! sophiebits.com/2025/08/22/m...

I'm happy to announce that I've accepted an invitation to co-chair NSDI 2028, along with Aurojit Panda.

People are still doing research on #openvswitch and this impresses me so much.

This is a useful shell function but oh boy does it look like line noise: retry() { "$@" || "$@"; }

For people who promised to fix things on "Day 1," the Trumpers spend a lot of time blaming a guy who hasn't been president for 10 months.

My dental office is once again asking me to review them on Google+.

I'm at a Scots ball tonight, wearing a kilt. Going up to my room in the hotel, someone not from the ball said to me, "You look like you had a good time," and I replied, "That's what you think. I drank so much that when I woke up someone had dressed me up in this skirt."

May you live in less interesting times.

It was a frustrating afternoon, best evidenced by how I submitted and merged a PR titled THE TRIALING SLASH WILL MURDER YOU that simply removes a trailing slash.

Data centers used to be pretty neutral things. Some were needed, some were built. Now they're menacing.

a “Space Force”, if you will

If you think a demogorgon is tough, try taking on a production gorgon.

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At the RenFaire this weekend, someone got hurt badly in a black powder explosion. A rumor said they got their hand blown off. And less than 24 hours later there were jokes about it on Facebook. I think this is terrible, both the accident and the reaction.

Just keeping a look out at Stanford Shopping Center

The type name Cow makes me giggle inside every time. #rust #rustlang

I've written maybe as much as 100,000 lines of #rust and I'm starting to get the hang of it I think. #rustlang

Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Dems in ARRAY

Things went well today I think?

I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.

I've heard multiple people say that Rust makes you a better programmer in other programming languages. And I don't think that's true, it makes me an angrier programmer in other programming languages.

Happy I-Forgot-to-Put-A-Taillight-On-My-Bike-for-the-Newly-Dark-Ride-Home Day to all who celebrate

I have a hard time understanding why people wait until the last day to vote. It's just so much better to get it done earlier.

With the length of some of the episodes in season 4 of Stranger Things, I think season 5 will be just one episode but 62 hours long.

Whenever I wrote something clever, it comes back to bite me in the end. Dumb and simple code always wins.

It took us from April until November, but finally we saved daylight again.

Here are the sculptures available on my shop : bisonrimant.fr You can greatly help me by sharing this post, if you want to ✌️

GitHub should work on AI, by which I mean Actions Improvements

Over 10,000 lines of SQL, wow.

I also came up with a Halloween idea: instead of "trick or treat", I'll knock on doors saying "trick or try DBOS"? 👻

I am getting so many commercial emails today that are like "BOO! IT'S HALLOWEEN! Buy our stuff."

some of you don't know the French word for things and it's choses