I spent some time yesterday sharpening my knives, which I find really therapeutic. I realised this is similar to working on my Neovim config, which is therapeutic for the same reason.

I wrote a thing hugotunius.se/2026/06/15/t...

The Sword Juggling Fallacy

Sword juggling is simple, just don't cut your fingers off in the process

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I wrote a thing hugotunius.se/2026/06/15/t...

The Sword Juggling Fallacy

Sword juggling is simple, just don't cut your fingers off in the process

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"If I had more time, I would've written a shorter letter" is more true than ever in the AI age. In fact having AI write for you at all is just lazy and disrespectful to the reader. noslopgrenade.com

no slop grenade

Stop throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations. If they wanted an AI essay, they would have asked ChatGPT themselves.

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This HN subthread news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4820... perfectly encapsulate the "C is simple, but not easy" dichotomy. Sure you can learn all the surface syntax of C quickly, and compared to the likes of Rust or Swift there is very little. However, writing correct software in C is not easy.

With #GitHub 's recent problems an old blog post of mine is more relevant than ever hugotunius.se/2024/01/20/s...

Stop Using (only) GitHub Releases

A rant on the practice of storing release notes in GitHub's release features and the negative consequences of that

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I wrote a comment on /r/rust that was vaguely positive about LLMs for coding, shouldn't have done that. Sitting at (-5) atm. They really don't like AI over there.

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Git has Rust now? based

aly@aly.codes · 6mo ago

the xlibre guy is forking git to remove Rust from it why do all of these people have the same set of beliefs. x good. Wayland bad. Trans people bad. C good. Vaccines bad. rust bad. Etc etc github.com/Libre-WD-40/...

I have a new problem. These days not only does neovim start rust-analyzer, so does claude. Because of this I frequently end up with rust-analyzer eating 16-20GB of my ram and my whole system falling over as I hit the 32GB limit

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10/10 no noots

ℳatt@matttomic.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

It's going to be really fun tomorrow when the Supreme Court rules against Trump's tariffs (hopefully).

It's unbelievable how stupid Trump is. The Supreme court might rule against his tariffs and he's truthing up a storm about how bad this would be. If he had passed the tariff via congress, instead of illegal EOs, none of this would be on the table.

If the people building AI products did more #UserResearch, they'd be able to figure out what problems folks actually have where AI can help. www.techspot.com/news/110879-...

Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage"

Huang made his feelings about AI skeptics, haters, and doom-mongers clear on a recent episode of the No Priors podcast.

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Very normal stuff, not concerning at all www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...

Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell

YouTube video by Federal Reserve

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There is always an XKCD

I've got the strangest #rustlang bug. A few our own crates at work refuse to build when I pull them from the registry, but if I patch them by pointing directly to the same commit on disk it's all fine. Been like this for weeks now, no clue what's wrong.

Veratasium released a video about ASML and EUV lithography 1 day ago. ASML stock is up 5% today, seemingly as a result of the video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiUH...

The Ridiculous Engineering Of The World's Most Important Machine

YouTube video by Veritasium

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I was randomly perusing my CS2 inventory the other day and found a skin worth £150. For the life of me I don't get why anyone would pay that, but hey I get a free copy of Battlefield 6 🤷‍♂️

I saw a 2004 vs 2024 metalcore Youtube Short a few days ago. I've only listened to early 2000s metalcore since

Finished an initial version of my #postgres ID type github.com/k0nserv/plid. There's one unfortunate allocation in Rust that I haven't manage to eliminate... bsky.app/profile/hugo...

GitHub - k0nserv/plid: ULID inspired ID with prefix support

ULID inspired ID with prefix support. Contribute to k0nserv/plid development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Hugo Tunius 🦀@hugotunius.se · 8mo ago

I'm playing around with the idea of a ulid inspired id type that adds prefix support. Using the excellent #pgrx Rust crate it has been trivial to build a #rustlang #postgres extension for this. plid=# SELECT gen_plid('u'); gen_plid --------------------------- u_06DHRQH6SJT7N2WEQK4910R

There's this one person, I think anyway, who keeps creating sock puppet accounts for every HN thread about Rust. I'm pretty sure them and I had the exact same exchange in two separate threads...

I'm playing around with the idea of a ulid inspired id type that adds prefix support. Using the excellent #pgrx Rust crate it has been trivial to build a #rustlang #postgres extension for this. plid=# SELECT gen_plid('u'); gen_plid --------------------------- u_06DHRQH6SJT7N2WEQK4910R

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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

Loved talking Glen about #webrtc and Sans IO in #rustlang – full on geek talk! podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/n... In other formats here: netstack.fm#episode-16 #rust #rustlang #sansio #rustlang #code #webrtc

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Getting into #homeassistant. I love the idea of the project, but I hate the move away from config in code and IAC. Cattle not pets people

on type safety

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