notgull

notgull, 5 days ago to random

Was using DuckDuckGo and I put in "!y" instead of "!yt", whereupon I was immediately isekai'd into Yahoo Search. I am now forcibly reliving the early 2000's. Please send food

notgull, 5 days ago to random

I got nerd sniped into writing a replacement for the "ctor" crate that uses declarative macros instead of proc macros. Now introducing "ctor-lite!"

Not making a blogpost or announcement because it’s a small crate and I only expect like two people to use it.

https://docs.rs/ctor-lite/latest/ctor_lite/

notgull, 10 days ago to random

Well, what I thought was a cold turns out to be a sinus infection. Just great. 🤒

notgull, 12 days ago to random

You know, two weeks ago I said to myself "okay, I really need to learn this Nix thing", but I ended up getting busy with work and I didn’t have much time to try it out in practice.

Sad to see that the entire ecosystem is collapsing now. Why does this always happen for any technology I try to learn?

notgull, 12 days ago to random

Winit version 0.30.0 is coming out, with a lot of breaking changes! We would appreciate feedback here.

https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit/pull/3655

notgull, 15 days ago to random

I thought the rain would wash the bugs off of my windshield. I thought wrong 😫

notgull, 19 days ago to random

We would appreciate thoughts on releasing async-signal version 1.0.0!

https://github.com/smol-rs/async-signal/issues/31

notgull, 20 days ago to random

Does anyone know who’s maintaining tower-rs nowadays?

notgull, 26 days ago to random

You’ve got to be able to admit when you’re wrong

https://github.com/smol-rs/event-listener/pull/130

notgull, 1 month ago to rust

I wrote the first part of a series about the async-task crate! #rust #rustlang

https://notgull.net/async-task-explained-part1/

notgull, 1 month ago to random

Wait, you can use Nix inside of WSL on Windows?

Time to become the most annoying person in every issue tracker ever

whitequark, 1 month ago to random

you: upset that dtolnay stopped maintaining serde-yaml
me: upset that dtolnay did not stop maintaining serde

whitequark, 1 month ago to random

people have the right idea about personality tests (like MBTI or the ones schoolgirls write and use) however what they miss is that to improve predictive power these should be trials with real adversity. you can self-describe your way into being the archetype you want to be but it's harder to do that if you have to actually apply your personality to achieve goals

notgull, 1 month ago to random

I wrote another blog post! Specifically comparing threads and async/await, and how we can convey the differences better

https://notgull.net/why-not-threads/

notgull, 1 month ago to random

Tried to get back into Blender, only to find out that the middle click on my mouse no longer works. Great. I’ve got to buy a new mouse.

notgull, 1 month ago to random

Personally throwing my hat in for supported an async fn read for AsyncRead in the Rust standard library. There’s so many design patterns that can’t be done otherwise.

notgull, 1 month ago to random

There are more async concurrency models then there are stars in the sky

notgull, 1 month ago to random

On the thought of bootstrapping, imagine a UEFI/base firmware implementation that starts off as mostly source, but then compiles itself as it goes along.

It’s corny but I can’t stop imagining a system that slowly builds itself up as it boots. The thought is kind of beautiful in a way, even if it probably wont ever exist

notgull, 1 month ago to random

On the bootstrap chain of thought:

Has anyone tried to write a Rust compiler in Forth? It sounds painful but probably possible

notgull, 2 months ago to random

Me: I can’t think of anything to post here. How do other people do it so easily?

People in my feed on an hourly basis: "you ever notice that if you flip a pillow to the other side, it’s cold"

notgull, 2 months ago to random

I’ll be trying to create an asynchronous equivalent to the notify crate. I think it’s a missing part of the asynchronous ecosystem. Through inotify it shouldn’t be that difficult.

notgull, 3 months ago to random

Running your own Mastodon instance, Misskey instance or MediaWiki instance is advertised as something simple and easy. But it seems like the kind of thing that ends up eating up all of your free time

whitequark, 3 months ago to random

"the length of the three football fields" i beg you, please use real units... please...