Sylvain Wallez (@bluxte) 's Twitter Profile
Sylvain Wallez

@bluxte

Software engineer, from big servers to tiny microcontrollers. Member of @TheASF, tech lead at @elastic. Opinions my own, obviously.

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linkhttps://bluxte.net/ calendar_today30-06-2007 08:54:01

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Samuel Path (@smlpth) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Went to the zoo with the kids to change my mind from work. Saw a python, a llama, an axolotl, a capybara and a (chaos) monkey. Clearly I use too many tools in my work which are named after animals.

Sylvain Wallez (@bluxte) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Current status: diving in the intricacies of uninitialized memory in Rust to see if/how I could use it to implement zero-cost builders that incrementally populate a struct's properties, without falling in the undefined behavior trap. doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/unchec…

Predrag Gruevski (@predraggruevski) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Can this #rustlang trait be implemented outside its crate" is a shockingly difficult question. cargo-semver-checks v0.35 can answer correctly 100% of the time. Can you? Here's what you need to do: predr.ag/blog/is-this-t…

Olivier Poncet 🚀 (@ponceto91) 's Twitter Profile Photo

PDFcpu est une bibliothèque et un utilitaire écrits en Go permettant de manipuler des fichiers PDF : annotations, crop, extraction, rotation, etc ... Bref tout un ensemble de fonctionnalités très pratiques ⬇️ github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu

Sylvain Wallez (@bluxte) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Pretty cool story on using AI as your assistant for a side project, from product ideation to code. This also comes at the right time as my wife is seriously looking at handpans 😜

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German strings is a simple but clever implementation of immutable strings providing huge benefits when most of them are short, like enums or identifiers. This articles takes a deep dive into implementing them in Rust tunglevo.com/note/an-optimi…

Etienne Parizot (@parizot) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Bon, ça y est, je craque : je vais sans doute passer pour un affreux pinailleur, mais à un moment il faut peut-être arrêter de maltraiter les mathématiques ! Ça fait des semaines que les journalistes et commentateurs politiques ne cessent de parler du "plus petit commun

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Sylvain Wallez (@bluxte) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Great thread on open source / source available licenses in the context of Elastic products relicensing. I like the family tree of copyleft licenses that goes from GPL to SSPL. We could also have added LGPL for completeness, although it doesn't apply to any Elastic product.