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Nurzhan Saken

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program manager @rust-lang.org • github.com/nxsaken

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Nurzhan Saken@saken.me · 5d ago

Exactly one year later, I walked into my first ever conference, a Rust conference, as a Rust Project member. (Also bothered to learn Socionics since then, so INFp/IEI actually, though that's still Ni-Ti in the system, basically the same.)

Nurzhan Saken@saken.me · last yr.

#rustlang is the usual vehicle for my #INFJ Ni-Ti loops, so seeing this in the mirror really struck me.

Mirrored t-shirt saying TSUR NI TI ETIRWER (REWRITE IT IN RUST)
Nurzhan Saken@saken.me · 6d ago

I switched to purely semantic highlighting in my code editor (I use nightly a lot), and suddenly I understand the nightmare I had 4 years ago, in which a mother asked the father of her kids if he remembered to turn on their syntax highlighting before bed; she worried that the kids were monochrome.

Nurzhan Saken@saken.me · 7d ago

"A man may be convinced in all good faith that he has no religious ideas, but no one can fall so far away from humanity that he no longer has any dominating représentation collective. [...] Somewhere or other, overtly or covertly, he is possessed by a supraordinate idea." Jung (Collected Works 9.1)

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · last wk.

Hot take: A certain kind of American leftism is deeply culturally Protestant, even if it disbelieves in God, because of its preeminent focus on having the right inner mindset and intention and feeling properly guilty about one's moral failings to live up to a certain standard.

Nurzhan Saken@saken.me · 2w ago

Spitroasted by my coworker and therapist leaving on month-long breaks at the same time and getting half my wisdom teeth removed immediately after

Nurzhan Saken@saken.me · 3w ago

Autistically walking in circles in the kitchen while snatching potato wedges from the fridge one by one and putting mayo on them is realigning all of them chis and chakras and yin yangs inside of me

Nurzhan Saken@saken.me · last mo.

Ship of Theseus has nothing on hearing Laura Shigihara's voice at the end of Deltarune Chapter 1 after many, many years since finishing Plants vs. Zombies for the first time

Nurzhan Saken@saken.me · 2mo ago

Oh! There was a directly related talk at RustWeek. At 33:44, someone brings up GhostCell; earlier, at 28:05, @aapoalas.trynova.dev talks about a similar approach in gc-arena, and the speaker also mentions Haskell's ST monad, which expresses the same idea. See also: the generativity crate.

Common Pitfalls of Rewriting Things In Rust (Cliff L. Biffle at RustWeek)

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Nurzhan Saken@saken.me · 2mo ago

Thanks to the GhostCell paper for teaching me branded types in Rust via invariant lifetimes. This has been *awesome* for eliminating pretty much all bounds and length checks in my indexing-heavy code (and enforcing more subtle invariants).

Nurzhan Saken@saken.me · 2mo ago

The Rust Project has been messing with my dreams. Last time, I was in a Sims-like where Project Goals were people and I took care of them. Today, I drowned myself in a flooded room to reveal a nested dream hinting at a key (shard 🙄) to a chest hidden on an archipelago, and it was somehow relevant.

Nurzhan Saken@saken.me · 4mo ago

TIL that since Rust 1.79 (god I'm old) these trait bounds: ~~~ Foo: Bar, <Foo as Bar>::Baz: Qux, ~~~ can be collapsed into: ~~~ Foo: Bar<Baz: Qux>, ~~~ Types and traits get massive in my project because of const generics and const traits, so this is really satisfying <3

Nurzhan Saken@saken.me · 4mo ago

Throwback to the Tarot cards I pulled while building a line clipping library. The Five of Wands represents undifferentiated input line segments, while the Four and Eight of Wands show their progressive differentiation into the four quadrants and then the eight octants (see Bresenham's algorithm).

Tarot spread with Five of Wands, Four of Wands, and Eight of Wands.
Nurzhan Saken@saken.me · 5mo ago

Brought five really vivid dreams from the last two nights into analysis today, and even returned to a couple of much older ones. I'm so happy I get to talk about them with someone for an hour twice a week.

Nurzhan Saken@saken.me · 5mo ago

Got through my first month doing program management work for Rust. So grateful for the support I've gotten, and I hope I get to do this for a long time :-)

An edited manga panel of someone pointing at "Role: Rust program manager" shouting "This is my role! It was made for me!"