Tech tip that you didn't want to know: Every file is a valid Markdown document.

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I really want to learn, use and love emacs ...but it just feels like it's made by people who don't like people.

I (well, mostly Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini unwittingly working as a team) build a tool called 'whereami' using Cosmopolitan libc. The idea is that you can run this anywhere that you can ssh into tell you about the system that's actually running there. Is this something that's worth releasing?

do coding agents know how to use ed(1), the standard text editor?

How many hours have been wasted searching for a portable shell scripting language?

I really hope that corals make it through this year's El Niño.

Today in cursed code: a computer program that plays pong by modifying its own source code. (Each frame is a new compilation). See github.com/uellenberg/I...

The "eternal virtual machine" project by Adrian Cable is written in 366 bytes of C code. Yes, it runs DOOM. www.ioccc.org/2025/cable/i...

What's the 2026 version of Mac Mini but Linux?

An occasional reminder that depression is a lethal disease. I'm not "okay", but I think that I'm no longer "not okay".

Using impl Trait in the return position is one of Rust's most useful features for library authors. It allows you to change the concrete type without breaking semver. e.g. `fn printable() -> impl std::fmt::Display` would enable you to return anything that you want that implements Display.

I seriously hate that worse is better. It just doesn't seem fair somehow.

Makes sense. AllBirds makes the most comfortable cloud. All natural fibres too, which is nice.

This sounds like trolling, but isn't... I'm genuinely curious about whether it's possible to parse an integer using C's standard library while being memory safe. blog.habets.se/2022/10/No-w...

I guess Aristotle was around a long time ago, but when did the looksmaxxing crew forget that vanity is a vice, rather than a virtue?

might try a coding livestream tomorrow - probably at a time that suits nobody everytimezone.com/s/98fe222e

Mythos is a big deal because of its second-order effects. If it only cost $10b to train a cyber weapon that can easily penetrate all heavily-used operating systems, I expect that the information security industry will encounter many private variants within 24 months.

Hello, Internet. Sorry that I haven't been here for a while. It turns out that burnout can get as bad as they say. How are you doing?

After carefully reading and ranking a record number of 185 submissions from 148 speakers, we finally finished the talk selection for RustWeek 2026! I'm *really* excited about the lineup! Check it out here: 2026.rustweek.org/blog/2026-02... Don't forget to buy your ticket! See you in Utrecht!

It is a truth universally acknowledged, bicycles give you the freedom that car ads promise. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/the-joy-o... @tomflood.bsky.social @cyclingactionnz.bsky.social @nzherald.bsky.social

Do you have any examples of instructional tech videos that you really like? I'm looking it at increasing the quality of mine and would love to know examples of formats that work well.

Not all safe Rust code is equally safe. Here's what that means and why I argue that Rust has a spectrum of safety rather than one that's binary as indicated by the unsafe keyword. Notes from "Pointer Poker" and more: Levels of safety beyond the safe/unsafe dichotomy www.patreon.com/posts/14555...

Prediction: the next wave of programming languages will just be AI prompts. Someone's just released ai_bindgen (github.com/germangb/ai...) into the Rust ecosystem, which allows annotation to create functionality with natural language:

Hi pocket friends 👋, I have been thinking about offering something that people could expense with their training budget (while also learning a lot, obviously!).. Idea: monthly 30-90min deep dive to people on a paid tier of my Patreon.

At this point, I'm creating a Reddit bot that just adds helpful comments to threads such as "AI slop" and "Is this a bot?"

Apparently the message here is that I should be uploading more ragebait.

Code review: do you know why this code triggers undefined behavior? play.rust-lang.org/?version=st...

This doesn't feel particularly "timClicks" (I've tried very hard to steer away from engagement bait).. but I also sort of feel the need to respond to the idea that Fil-C is a better Rust. Should I make the video? If so, use this thumbnail or something less antagonistic?

Unethical data collection pro tip: If you're asking for feedback on a 1-5 scale, make sure that your preferred response is what the respondents see first. Even if they don't click Excellent/Strongly Agree, anchoring bias will nudge them that way.

If you've wanted to learn how async *actually works* in Rust and what a "future" actually is, reserve 30 mins for this video sometime over the weekend youtu.be/45FzYwoOXRQ

The borrow checker decided to complain during a live stream, so I spent a minute explaining what was happening to the audience before telling it to leave me along. youtube.com/shorts/65rK...

Am honestly quite surprised that no one is complaining about the pineapple on pizza aspect to this.

I've decided to call it the flying saucer operator

Everyone knows that the PDF spec is powerful enough to allow a full Linux kernel to boot, right? linux.doompdf.dev/

Writing tech docs/tutorials is hard because of the fractal of complexity that every topic seems to produce. Writing about FFI means writing about how functions work in programming languages, which means calling conventions, stack frames, symbols, linkers, thread safety, ...

How did you get your first job programming with Rust? I have a suspicion that most people just added Rust to their company's tech stack before it was officially sanctioned, thus creating a Rust job.

A workflow for working with AI agents to develop high-quality software quickly (A downloadable PDF and further info available to subscribers free or paid timclicks.dev/ai-workflow)

Good news everyone! The future is now. The Algol 68 front end to gcc is finally approved for inclusion. The tyranny of C-based languages may soon be over.

Is #rustlang safe? A 38 second explainer on the unsafe keyword www.youtube.com/shorts/Syov...

If you've ever used CSV to store data long term ("cold data storage"), I have an unorthodox idea for you: use a SQLite database instead.

A cheat sheet of Cargo plugins to improve your day as a #rustlang developer. More detailed notes and a PDF version is available through the link in the QR code.

Cloudflare generated many millions of HTTP 5XX responses today. They were triggered because code in a core proxy called .unwrap() on a Result for an operation that was expected to never fail.

How many lava lamps does it take to bring down the Internet? You probably won't get it right.. ... it's too random.

Productivity tip for people using #rustlang: The rustup command can generate shell completions for your shell:

Code quiz time. Why are we not allowed to create `ub` this way?

Rust's Vec<T> type is the best template for an advanced technique called "partial initialization". Here's a quick video show you what I mean youtu.be/1femyALVeLQ

It looks as though Apple is adding WSL to macOS. Perhaps 2026 is the year of the Linux desktop? apple.github.io/containeriz...

Trying to figure out how to produce tech tutorial videos without spending more than an hour of work per minute of finished content.