Finding Bugs đź”—
Finding Bugs Sep 19, 2026 Are generative (randomized) tests significantly more effective than example-based unit-tests at discovering bugs? There’s a [...]
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Static Allocation, Constant Work đź”—
Static Allocation, Constant Work Sep 2, 2026 In reply to this email: Memory Safety’s Hardest Problem named something I’d hit but couldn’t articulate. [...]
Cancelation Terminology đź”—
Cancelation Terminology Aug 31, 2026 A short note explaining the difference between synchronous cancelation, asynchronous cancelation, and graceful s [...]
Rust Glancer đź”—
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 [...]
Better Batteries đź”—
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 đź”—
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 đź”—
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 đź”—
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 đź”—
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 đź”—
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 [...]