Rust Glancer 🔗
Rust Glancer Aug 21, 2026 Rust Glancer, a functional LSP server for Rust which uses two orders of magnitude less RAM, is incredibly cool. Go check it [...]
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Better Batteries 🔗
Better Batteries Aug 20, 2026 One of the eternal schisms in programming is over the question of whether the standard library should be minimal or enc [...]
Printing Lists 🔗
Printing Lists Aug 14, 2026 To print a comma-separated list, a concise idiom is to optionally print the comma first, before the element: for (items, [...]
Zig's Io.Threaded is Neat 🔗
Zig’s Io.Threaded is Neat Aug 6, 2026 std.Io.Threaded is one of the implementations of Zig’s new Io interface that enables concurrency. This is a bor [...]
Memory Safety's Hardest Problem 🔗
Memory Safety’s Hardest Problem Jul 20, 2026 Uplifting a lobsters comment for easier reference. The central memory safety counter example, the hardes [...]
CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts 🔗
CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts Jun 4, 2026 An ersatz CSS tutorial for people who need to style a web page, but aren’t web developers. I am a wrong person [...]
TIL: Symlinking NixOS Dotfiles 🔗
TIL: Symlinking NixOS Dotfiles May 21, 2026 The standard answer to managing dotfiles on NixOS is home-manager. I’ve never used it, due to two aesthet [...]
Always Be Blaming 🔗
Always Be Blaming May 18, 2026 A few tips on 4D-ing your code comprehension skills. I wrote on the importance of reading code before: Look Out For Bu [...]
Catch Flakes On Main 🔗
Catch Flakes On Main May 14, 2026 A small Mechanical Habit today: When using not rocket science rule / merge queue, continue to redundantly run the f [...]
Learning Software Architecture 🔗
Learning Software Architecture May 12, 2026 In reply to an email asking about learning software design skills as a researcher physicist: I was attach [...]