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DC Systems 14 will be Tuesday, March 10th!
Peter Tong will talk about Optimal Real-Time Locking
John Kastner will talk about Clangβs experimental bounds safety extension.
As always: pizza and beer will be provided.
Please come hear some great talks: luma.com/90ss30d2
Type-safe, type-unsafe, single-thread, multi-thread, getting Rust and C++ to work together on this project was like using crabs as gears. Michael Gibson and Shuxian Wang brought down the house at #RustUnconf this year with this story, and here it is on our blog. Link below.
Incredibly excited to talk at Software Should Work!
Isaac has gathered an amazing group of speakers. It should be a great conference!
Buy your tickets! softwareshould.work
#rustlang hot take: We should rename .unwrap() to .or_panic(). (And .expect() to .or_panic_with().) "Unwrap" is a terrible name for the panicking function, especially since we also have things like .unwrap_or() and .unwrap_or_default() which never panic.
8bitdo GameCube adapter thing on Amazon, looks like a vape
Takin a rip from this and blowing the fattest clouds
Developer Voices by @krisajenkins.bsky.social is one of our favorite podcasts at AntithesisHQ and he's just given our office metal band a name.
While you wait for their first album to drop, perhaps you'd like to watch his interview with Will Wilson? Links below.
How do you test software, if you want to be *really* thorough about it? To answer that question this week we're going as far back as the 8-Bit Nintendo, as far down as the CPU, and nearly as far up and away as Mars. Will Wilson joins me to explore how far you can push testingβ¦
youtu.be/_xJ4maWhSNU
i constantly think about this post
A Threads post by jlangd reading βStraight up, let's get this out right now: Taylor's not changing her name. Do NOT call her Taylor Kelce Do NOT call her Mrs. Kelce. DO NOT call her Mrs. Travis Kelce. She. Is. TAYLOR. SWIFT. She has worked her ASS off to make HER name in show business. Do not belittle her.β with a reply from dril reading βshe is changing her name to "jared folgel". it was on the newsβ
Snort laughed at work
Remember how our platform plays #Nintendo games in its spare time?
That's our #fuzzer learning to bomb-jump in #Metroid. Will wrote the story in a real labor of love. Link in first comment.
Happy Friday!
antithesis.com/blog/2025/me...
If there were a single lesson I'd drill into new software engineers it'd be this:
You can be technically right and politically and systemically dead wrong.
One of my favorite uses of llms so far has been migrating config.
I wanted to play around with hyprland after using i3 for a long time. I pointed the LLM at my nixos config for i3 and it migrated everything without issue
Itβs 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4
Welcome to Antithesis: a Gold sponsor of #rustconf25! Support from sponsors like Antithesis helps the Rust Foundation put on an amazing event for the #rustlang community.
Learn more about Antithesis @ antithesis.com/industries/d... & get ready to see them at #rustconf π
Sure, sex is cool, but, have you ever refactored your NixOS config?
Today, FoundationDB is critical infra at Snowflake, Deepseek, Apple, and many other companies. But it started with some guys in a garage, building a demo with plywood and light bulbs...
Hear the full story, told by the FDB founders, on the first episode of Antithesis's new BugBash podcast.
#databs
this summer, before you drink a glass of water, ask yourself: does claude need it more?
KNOWING COMPUTER SHIT:
pros: being able to figure out some silly bullshit issue and cobble a fix together
cons: [crying, screaming, throwing up, etc]
screenshot of dril tweet: βi put years of hard work into getting my torture degree at torture college & now everyones like βoh tortures badβ,βits ineffectiveβ fuck offβ
this is how i feel about unsafe Rust code that takes a reference to the deref of a raw pointer
π Had some fun hacking together a new TUI (with @ratatui_rs) to dig into the #FoundationDB #simulation framework!
It visualizes nemesis workloads like:
β‘ Attrition
π Network Splits
β³ Induced Latencies
Check it out here π github.com/PierreZ/fdb-...
New blogpost published! "So, You Want to Learn More About Deterministic Simulation Testing?"
me: *running brew update*
7yr old watching over my shoulder: what's an 'update'? wait, i know! it's when you make something better!
me: ....... not necessarily.
tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-02...
On our introduction of generative end-to-end testing of the TigerBeetle database.
At the end of the day, if you have pure deterministic code, you can make a lot of simplifying assumptions on when you need to compute stuff since you can easily cache anything.
While not reactive I've had a lot of fun using github.com/salsa-rs/sal... for a side project.
This mostly lets you write "lazy" code and you can just assume only the things that need to be computed will be (aka caching "for free")
At my job we have a fully reactive coding environment antithesis.com/blog/noteboo...
Its an absolute joy to work in do make UIs since you see the UI change as you type.
Though I've come across some very strange edge cases when working on the internals that don't spark joy... (its still dope)
skiplabs.io seems to be gaining some traction today.
I think these "reactive" environments are incredibly fun when they work well but can lead to some gnarly bugs when they don't
As the DX improves I could see this become the standard way to make an app going forward
WILLEM DAFOE: what skills do you have?
ME: I am pretty good at getting people to like me
WILLEM DAFRIEND: I agree
