Ian McCormack

@icmccorm.com

PhD Candidate in Software Engineering @CMU Studying Rust interop 🦀 borrowsanitizer.com

Any good recs for BBQ near Pittsburgh? I feel like there aren’t as many places as there are in Minneapolis, where I grew up. We had Famous Dave’s / Old Southern everywhere.

I’m torn on short form content lately. One one hand, I can see how just disassociating and watching reels is unhealthy, but there are some topics, like recipes, that do really well in that space, and that give me great ideas that I can work with. I think I just miss Vine.

For some reason, every pair of Converse I’ve ever had has fallen apart within 6 months, but I can’t tell if that’s just me or the quality of the shoe.

I see a lot of great ideas from academia for contributions to open source projects, but it feels like they stop short of being adopted in production, either due to out-of-date prototype versions or the inherent friction of getting something ready for a PR. Or maybe something else.

I’ve always felt that fantasy novel adaptations would be better as animated series than live action. Like a Stormlight Archive show in the style of the Mighty Nein, instead of something like GoT.

I remember growing up, visiting the La Brea Tar Pits, and wanting to be a paleontologist so I could find fossils. Now, all I find are bugs—and not the prehistoric kind 🥲

My dryer is evil. It tore apart one sock, and its threads caught up on several other socks, creating a terrible vortex of torn socks. It’s clearly out to get me.

Coming from Minnesota, it’s only just starting to feel like fall in Pittsburgh, but the leaves are already mostly gone! 😓 🍂 Wishing for colder weather…

Just arrived in San Jose for this year’s LLVM Developers Meeting! Tomorrow, I’ll be presenting our ongoing work on BorrowSanitizer—an LLVM instrumentation tool for finding Rust-specific forms of undefined behavior in multilanguage applications.

Most of the people I know who play pickleball these days are surprised that I used to play it in gym class during high school—was that just a midwest/MN thing? I dunno.