hello! freg!

Nintendo Gamma Boy

explaining lossless compression to an american

I wanna thank past me for making sure I could visualize nicely my compiler parse tree (and @katef.bsky.social for the inspiration). Signed: Someone who is just picking back up development after 6 months.

Write code to make being human easier. Rip code out if it makes being human harder. Write code to make caring for each other easier. Rip it out if it makes caring for each other harder. Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined

If you're into Rust, you'll know about the difference between Eq and PartialEq. Did you know that there's a secret third thing?

Hero worship in science is rotten. There are no giants on whose shoulders we stand. We're all part of a community that spans time and geography. Getting fixated on origin stories is very Marvel. Science doesn't happen in heroland though.

try again, but harder

Secret Lair #MTG

IT IS TIME FOR BLUESKY RECIPE POSTING do you have a cheap, healthy, low-cost recipe? post it here! or quote tweet this post. or dunk on me for something I don't care just post easy meals that people can make right now.

It's weird that for almost all of the history of chocolate, it was paired with chili peppers and almost no one does this anymore. People forgot, or just never learned, how good the combination is. Sprinkle some cayenne into your hot cocoa, see for yourself.

I strongly recommend everyone do research sometimes 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘯. Look something up on Wikipedia. Go to the little citation. Follow it. Read the article it's referencing. Follow links to the original interview. Read the paper written by the interviewee It genuinely makes you appreciate journalism

love a november

that's me in the corner that's me in the float point losing my precision

Infrastructure as Code is great because it allows you to write infrastructure bugs

who called it arson and not crime brûlée

Ray marching is a common approach to GPU-accelerated volume rendering, but gives biased transmittance estimates. My new #SIGGRAPHAsia paper (+code) proposes an amazingly simple formula to eliminate this bias almost completely without using more samples. momentsingraphics.de/SiggraphAsia...

Espressif hired a bunch of Rust devs years ago and they have been quietly doing great work supporting Rust on their chips ever since. Still haven’t seen any other chip companies get close. developer.espressif.com/blog/2025/10...

Here's a handy guide to some electronic components.

looking at motion picture film cameras be like

This is so true

I don't want to be the asshole bursting into every cargo test deficiency conversation with "nextest solves this", but... nextest solves most of them

I started this project a while ago & then events in life put it on the back burner. I’m hoping to pick it up again soon. I always start a body of work with a lot of experimenting with printing, papers & processes and put them into a scrapbook. These are tea toned Cyanotypes on Japanese paper.

What did people do before SNAP?” They died. Healthcare, vaccines, disability support, education & food assistance are vital to our survival. They’re why the average lifespan isn’t 35 anymore The mark of a good & decent society is whether it sees the value in helping others.

Python Software Foundation showing how it's done - let's give them some positive feedback 🧡 psfmember.org/civicrm/cont...

A blog post on new features in Rust, covering the last year and a half (since the last one): www.ncameron.org/blog/recent-... (spoiler: a lot more new stuff than I realised!) #rustlang

Proud of the Python Software Foundation for doing the right thing and standing up for their people, even when it’s hard. Especially when it’s hard.

rust-analyzer now fully uses the new trait solver! 🎉🎉 rust-analyzer.github.io/thisweek/202...

TIL the Rust dep: feature syntax is broken apparently despite the entire point of dep: being to remove implicit features from optional dependencies, the implicit feature still exists when building your code??? despite it being documented as disabling the implicit feature?

okay hello i'm going to try to explain what i've been figuring out for chip component footprints. This has taken me weeks. It's exactly the kind of problem with requirements that make sense to pretty much only myself, but i wanted to try to share what i've been thinking anyway

merkle search tree? sounds fun, I hope merkle find tree

after a while, page file

slab you later, allocator

New blog post: Cancelling async #rustlang! This is a written version of my talk at #RustConf 2025, where I talk about the joys and sorrows of future cancellations in Rust, with lessons from our work at @oxide.computer. Includes a video of the talk as well. Check it out!

on a train! going home, OUL-HEL

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

welcome to linux, please pick your starter distro: - difficult linux - racism linux - backdoored linux - bloat linux - slop linux

My opinion on video game pricing is that every video game that costs less than $30 should cost $10 more and every video game that costs more than $40 should cost $10 less.

No real take on the charter of the company, but wow is that a stacked list of Rust contributors: www.vectorware.com/blog/announc...

Gorton in Hong Kong confirmed!

Do you have experience/strong feelings about NAT traversal for IoT devices/self-hosted servers, optimized for folks who just won't be able to handle port forwarding on their routers? @conjured.ink could use your thoughts/help/expertise: codeberg.org/conjured/sil... Help support indie creatives!

I see a future in #jj-vcs: steveklabnik.com/writing/i-se...

Hello, friends! After 10(!) years of #AdventOfCode, I've made some changes to preserve my sanity: there will be 12 days of puzzles each December (still starting Dec 1) and there is no longer a global leaderboard. Read more: adventofcode.com/2025/about#f... adventofcode.com/2025/about#f...

hi us-east-1, i am also kinda down today

this is an interesting question. i don't think there's been anything on the scale of log4shell/heartbleed yet, in terms of real world impact. there's been serious vulnerabilities that haven't really been huge impact wise. maybe BatBadBut?

the thing is, rust can have really fast compile times, but the pervasive use of macros and build scripts obscures that fact. impure proc macros and build scripts are the free parking of the rust ecosystem: benefiting the few at the cost of many

tired: it's always DNS inspired: ICANN feel it coming in the air tonight

The fact that @quinnypig.com wrote this on a platform that isn’t his and the fact that he went full throttle is shocking He gets away with being snarky because of how pro Amazon he is. He might be snarky, but he’s never out of line If he can be this critical on a major publication, whew

#hugOps story time! Quote this and tell me the biggest incident you ever saw in production. It’s inevitable, it’s gonna happen, and learning from incidents is way better than shitting on people trying to fix them. I’ll start :) hazelweakly.me/blog/mother-...

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage