We're so lucky that it was Mozilla that picked up Rust. Not that they were always great stewards, but it's not super clear to me whether Cargo would exist without them, and the world-class Windows support almost certainly wouldn't.

After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know about the RubyGems takeover.

Among Democrats - "Have you heard of the Abundance agenda?" No: 88% Yes: 12% Echelon / Sept 22, 2025

Might as well do Suffering Abundance

FWIW I think bylines are a basic requirement for journalism, and matter much more than the publication. The Economist is not a serious journalistic outlet!

so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):

Have a straight up allergy to "this isn't X—it's Y" type constructions now. Hate it

In #rustlang, if you're providing a safe interface over an unsafe mmap API, and this is not public (is an internal component), do you think the unsafe layer should do internal bookkeeping to ensure that mutable refs to the same memory region aren't handed out? For example, using an interval tree

As promised last week: today on the podcast, @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by Dave to talk about this extraordinary talk, the system that it describes -- and the experiences of the team in developing it. Join us, 5p Pacific today! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

New @oxide.computer application FAQ just dropped

keep being reminded of "move fast and break things" becoming "move fast with stable infra" 💀💀💀

"Real Americans might be Christians, but real Christianity, with its Golden Rule, was for chumps. Social reality was irreducibly tribal (i.e., racial), and “equality” was just a pretty word for dispossession. St. Augustine would call it a philosophy for gangsters."

This GitHub spam is horrible

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

The amount of anti-Indian hate is staggering tbh. whatever happened to being honest, decent people

You can't say you care about software portability while advocating for OS package managers over language-specific ones, sorry

first as farce, then as even more farcical farce

Insane to me that the Chinese Omegaverse TV show is real.

The problem really is the belief in meritocracy, isn't it

the online right is mad that they're not applying it to current H1Bs

Did you know that with nextest, you can run tests on the main thread of a process? Super useful for environments where the main thread is special, such as macOS. Even better, since nextest is process-per-test, these tests run in parallel, not serially!

the "maximalist" position in question invariably turns out to be "trans people are maximally, not partially, people"

Also, the conditions trans people are subjected to in jail absent the intervention of bleeding heart libs are probably “TOS violation to accurately describe in writing” tier bad.

hmmm

yeah i read economic theory

It's always talked about in this roundabout way. At no point are the actual merits of the position—that you should provide medically necessary services to incarcerated people—ever considered. never. because they know that disagreeing with it is a sign of utter moral bankruptcy

oof, what a disappointing way to end more than 15 years of open source work. (summary by @duckinator.bsky.social at pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...). good luck to the remaining RubyGems team, and it’s time to focus my energy on new projects that I’m truly excited about, like rv.dev

Japan once again wins the IG Nobel Prize, this year for research showing that painting a cow to look like a zebra decreases bug bites by close to 50% www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/artic...

There is no thriving #Haskell community without its members of the LGBT community, and on that there cannot be any compromise.

I wrote a related thing back in 2020 comparing the tradeoffs of enums versus trait objects www.possiblerust.com/guide/enum-o...

Often when sum types (tagged unions/enums with data) come up, folks claim that they're equivalent to multiple implementations of an interface. Beyond the rough ergonomics of the latter, this is not actually true! In reality, *non-exhaustive enums* are equivalent to *sealed interfaces*. Read more:

Very compelling talk, right from the jump! Will take some live notes...

Fewer girls are playing sports after govt erected barriers for girls to play sports. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Last week, we were treated to an extraordinary talk internally at @oxide.computer. It was at once an expository talk of a complicated software system and an experience talk of developing systems software in the large -- and it was far too good to keep to ourselves! oxide.computer/blog/systems...

I improved it

Yeah I mean just-world beliefs are kind of the root of all evil

It is indefensible that "vaccine skeptics" has become the house style for describing such people in straight news journalism.

Finished the true ending of #silksong last evening with 85% completion. What a blast of a game! Can't wait for the DLC

the UK's new anti-trans rules are indefensible & will make global fascism stronger my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Wonder what Jill Stein's been up to

one of my silly takes is that truth is actually a core liberal value--truth, not relativism--and what demsas argues here is absolute capitulation to pure relativism sure bad ideas are as important to teach as good ones lies as important as truth surely this will allay all attacks on universities,

Check out this brilliant thread talking about why we now have a Kubernetes cluster setup at home

dating apps and profiles are an attempt to make the processes of romance 'legible', and to some extent can be perceived as a 'high modernist' simplification of courtship send tweet

Today, @ahl.bsky.social and I are going to be joined by folks from the @oxide.computer operations and engineering teams to talk about the challenges of scaling manufacturing. Join us at 5p Pacific today -- and bring your questions! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

Everyone follow butterfly! she is an engineer extraordinare and someone I love and care deeply for. Finally convinced her to have more of an online presence after my shitposting last night

revisiting this is really funny given how bad the international blowback seems to be. Literally the Korean government got involved

silksong mods are really popping off

What a banger — as the name suggests, ice cream truck and tornado sirens sounds integrated into a spectacular piece of ambient music