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personally I'm not worried about LLM-induced brain rot, we've had LinkedIn-powered brain rot for years now and we're obviously doing great

Siddhant Adlakha@siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Anyone who worked on @patrickhwillems.bsky.social's Bollywood video should be paid more to write more. It's one of my favorite things over the past few years, watched it like five times at this point. youtu.be/BSRddWXSAA4

I Went To India To Learn About Bollywood

YouTube video by Patrick (H) Willems

youtu.be

Hi editor pals! In 2026 I'd love to start writing for some new publications. Film critic and video essay writer originally from Mumbai, now in NYC, and always at film festivals (Sundance, Berlin, SXSW and Cannes next). More about me and some work samples: www.siddhantadlakha.com

אייל 🏴@eyalk.bsky.social · 10mo ago

שוק התרבות הכי גדול שלי בלונדון זה שהכל סגור בכריסמס (כולל תחבורה לשדה תעופה), וב-1/1 הדבר היחיד שהצלחתי למצוא זה סניף של Gail's, לגמרי איבדתי את השריר של לתכנן דברים סביב השבת

3. ניסיתי אתמול (ב1/1) למצוא מתנה וזה היה סיוט לא נורמלי כי ליטרלי כל החנויות היו סגורות. אחת הערים הכי תיירותיות בעולם, באחד הימים הכי תיירותיים שלה בשנה, וכל הרשתות סגורות. כל הכבוד לצרפתים שהצליחו (לפחות בזה) להביס את הקפיטליזם.

Alfonso Subiotto@asubiotto.com · 10mo ago

I'm somewhat biased as I'm personally invested in Vortex (work for the company that originated it) and a fan of Polar Signals, but continuous profiling in production is just a must in any non-trivial software deployment, it's just so powerful

A simple 50-line code change saves us 30% of CPU across our whole infrastructure. This is the magic of system-wide profiling with @polarsignals.com. Easy to spot, easy to fix.

Adam @adamg.computer · 11mo ago

I took two weeks off, went to one museum, watched a few movies, bought a PS5 and played over 100 hours of Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, time well spent.

Adam @adamg.computer · 12mo ago

all benchmarks are bad and all benchmark-based marketing is bullshit, and everyone should stop doing that

today on the orange site - the linux foundation is a conspiracy by ai grifters to avoid paying taxes by donating half-baked open source projects

Spent 4 hours getting some linker magic to the point of not breaking the build on macos (didn't do much else), only to realize I can just make it dissapear with the magic of macros. But hey, at least now I know how to make the macos linker to not strip some unused symbols!

I've generally given up on having better code review experience in github (on the web), but I'll keep praying for private PRs because I like their diff

@rust-lang.org-people, what's an open source project that you think has good error handling? I've been using thiserror for the past ~3 years in multiple codebases and I keep running into the same corners I'm unhappy with, and I want to read some new patterns/designs and get some better ideas

החלום האמיתי שלי הוא שכל לינקדאין יבואו לטוויטר כדי שפעם אחת יאמרו להם את האמת בפנים

watching the empire strikes back for the first time in 10+ years and I really think it doesn't get enough credit for how visually stunning it is

@rust-lang.org folks, whats the best way to hold a security sensitive string in memory? I'm tempted to to just rollout my own wrapper with zeroize and safe Display/Debug implementations but I'm wondering if there's a well maintained crate out there.

Andrew Duffy @a10y.dev · 2y ago

@hankgreen.bsky.social I hope you understand that your suggestion on your last video to declare a new timezone that isn't just defined by an offset from UTC+some daylight savings time is deep existential horror content for basically every programmer out there.

Last month I worked on Apache Iceberg integration for Vortex, the results of which we presented earlier this month at Iceberg Summit. I wrote a post about my experience bridging our Rust-based system to Iceberg and Spark spiraldb.com/post/vortex-...

Vortex on Ice

Using Vortex to accelerate Apache Iceberg queries up to 4x

spiraldb.com

I sort of get twitter bots, but blusky bots are just so weird

Did google fonts always use the UN's declaration of human rights for its placeholder text?

Adam@adamg.computer · 2y ago

The best part was definitely it not making a difference

nothing says "I'm trying to improve my work-life balance" like re-running a benchmark at 1am because I realized there's a small difference I didn't account for (LTO level)

nothing says "I'm trying to improve my work-life balance" like re-running a benchmark at 1am because I realized there's a small difference I didn't account for (LTO level)

Wrote down some of my thoughts and lessons about working with object storage, especially if you want to get both high throughput and low latency. Spent so much time in the past ~5 years waiting on S3 requests, so hopefully this will help save others from similar fates. spiraldb.com/post/so-you-...

So you want to use Object Storage

Tips and lessons learned from building systems directly against object stores

spiraldb.com

I still don't like Python, but uv is just a magical experience

My favorite pastime is to comment on my own PRs to try and explain what I was doing/thinking. My second favorite pastime is opening a ton of small PRs that have more description than meaningful code changes.