notgull

whitequark, 7 days ago to random

me: "i like it how the entire LLVM project is one monorepo"
her: "when are you going to compile the entirety of LLVM to WebAssembly?"
me: "yes."
her: "... I said that as a joke"

notgull, 11 days ago to random

Ugh I need to get back to that async-task blogpost don’t i

notgull, 13 days ago to random

I don't have time for this at the moment, so here's a free idea: "winit-lite", which attempts to allow for windowing while still attempting to be hobby scale.

Really, if you took out the web, Android and iOS backends from winit, you'd take out a good 50% of the code while still retaining 90% of the actual real world usecases. iOS is literally unmaintained anyways, Android is responsible for most of the API complexity and production applications shouldn't use winit's web backend anyways.

notgull, 15 days ago to random

In my opinion the biggest problem with winit’s API is that it tries to support too many platforms at once. It tries to abstract over full blown windowing systems as well as phones and web, which only have one window. This leads to a very awkward API.

notgull, 21 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, 21 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, 7 months ago to random

Answering a frequently asked question: how do you do concurrent combinators in smol?

https://notgull.net/futures-concurrency-in-smol/

notgull, 26 days ago to random

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

notgull, 28 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, 28 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, 1 month ago to random

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

notgull, 1 month 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, 1 month ago to random

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

notgull, 1 month 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months ago to random

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