waffle (recovering from EMF)
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compiler witch, striving to outshine stars 🌠 blog.ihatereality.space; github.com/wafflelapkin; i do stuff sometimes; it/its
i think we can all agree that the second-best time machine design is the austin powers spiral thing. it /is/ limited by the fact that you apparently need to have one at the arrival time at well, but interestingly enough that actually puts it in the same class as the contraption from primer,
I also made a little function to visualize Pico-8's 16.16 fixed point numbers that you can play with here pico-8-edu.com?c=AHB4YQD7AL...
I wish git had submodules but like, instead of not working, they would work
I find it rather funny that rust programmers' "obsession" with "memory safety" can be laughed at from both sides of the programming language spectrum. functional pl enthusiasts might say that just being memory safe[^1] is not enough and rust does not help enough with program correctness[^2]. \
New blog post: How to speed up the Rust compiler in July 2026 nnethercote.github.io/2026/07/31/h...
How to speed up the Rust compiler in July 2026
My last post on the Rust compiler’s performance was in December 2025. Let’s see what has happened since then.
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great choice by rust to rename "object safety" to the much more intuitive "dyn compatibility (previously known as object safety)"
rustdoc behavior with type aliases is... incredibly weird
did not like a library that was used in embassy examples, so I'm extending my own library to support everything that this library supports... ...instead of actually porting my code to use embassy
CROSS-REGION GIFTING IS REAL OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD store.steampowered.com/news/app/593...
Steam News - Gifting made easier - Steam News
Guest checkout, gifting to email, and more
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trying to lure in evil woman likers to show them the wonders of hand stabbing, and trying to lure in the hand stabbing likers to show them the wonders of evil women
Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW)@hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 2w agoand if you haven't wishlisted 500 FINGER FILLET on steam yet... you should!! store.steampowered.com/app/4602120/...
can't stop chuckling when saying "from T for T" and unfortunately `impl<T> From<T> for T` is very relevant to my current work :sob:
actually, everyone should make their personalities all about their cats SHOW ME YOUR CATS
Thorne 🌸@ens0.me · 2w agoSome trans people don't like hearing this, but your goal should honestly be to ensure that being trans is at highest like the 4th or 5th most interesting thing about you There are a lot of cis people who will be more accepting if this is the case
i wrote a blog post about a cool optimisation i did to make quadratic behaviour linear while remaining sound !! its a mix of pretty technical GC details and theoretical Rust stuff, which is the best of mixes imo, go read it !! ! !! soteria-tools.com/blog/meta-ga...
Meta Garbage Collection: Using OCaml's GC to GC Rust - Soteria
Tracking Rust's aliasing model can be quadratically expensive if done naively. Learn how we fixed this in Soteria Rust by doing meta garbage collection.
soteria-tools.com
The fact that your computer boots (i.e., you see the login screen after pressing the power button) is nothing but a mere coincidence.
I'm so used to being at rust conferences that it feels weird to be the only rust team member at emf lol
I might have an extra EMF ticket available, if anyone still needs one?
