Jamie Donaldson

@jamiedonaldson.bsky.social

Full stack developer: FPGAs to web apps

Check out Tris’s talk for a deep-dive into const, macros, zero-cost abstractions, safety and tricks to offloads computation from runtime to compile time. Also, make sure to subscribe to the #EuroRust YouTube channel! 🦀 Check out the full talk 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=McuK... #RustLang

Misusing Const for Fn and Profit - Tristram Oaten | EuroRust 2025

*Misusing Const for Fn and Profit - Tristram Oaten at EuroRust 2025 🦀* Rust has a secret world that is inaccessible in most other languages. We call this shadowy land “Compile Time”, and you can do…

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If you think this is US-only, it's not. If you think the GDPR protects you, it's doesn't. If you hadn't realised privacy is a national security and corporate espionage issue, it is. If you think politicians can't tackle this, they can. If you believe that tech or business need this, they don't.

michael veale@michae.lv · 11mo ago

Either real-time bidding data or app SDK data is being bought and used by ICE to seize people from the streets. If you didn’t believe that the adtech stack is a human rights concern, I’m not sure what more evidence you need. www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

Rust has frustrating deficiencies; the issue tracker has excellent explanations, but my expectations exceeded reality. I have been able to solve each problem thus far, but in ways that feel like ugly workarounds to cover for missing features.

Taking great interest in a subject you discovered on your own is not getting nerd sniped. Nerd sniping is done to you by another person. A concept cannot nerd snipe you. You cannot nerd snipe yourself. There are other terms for that. This post is brought to you by: linguistic prescriptivism.

I know it's easy to hate on the web as a software platform but every so often I have to fill out one of those turing complete PDFs for some government service in acrobat and it reminds me that there was more than one circle in Dante's inferno.

I'm giving a talk on Vim at Rustweek. I want to share some "omg" vim tips – anyone have favorite "aha" moments, or obscure-but-useful key mappings?