That moment when you use &| instead of |& in bash....

So much this 👇 We have to stop this romanticized image of the programmer who doesn’t need anybody and must know everything on their own. Other people may know better, reading what they say is worth it.

I wonder if the chip shortage will ever go away and if not then what we will do moving forward.

I need a good language to design systems and I keep postponing. I should learn TLA+. I wonder how much time I would need to get productive with it considering I have already some experience.

This is a good message 🙂 blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/20…

Developers who say performance is more important than correctness.

Shriram Krishnamurthi (primary: Bluesky) Hot take: Programmers like minimalism in languages primarily for aesthetic/psychological reasons and the stated rational reasons (which do have some merit) are still mostly post hoc and don't fully justify. ...

I'm trying Tauri to write multi platform applications. The final product is nice but I don't like using multiple languages and styles in the same app.

I don't like the "best of both worlds".

The versatility that Rust brings to the table is just mind-blowing. With the exception of GUI/front-end work*, it's a viable choice at almost every level of the stack. Once mastered, it's the ultimate Swiss-army knife.

I wish more programming languages would dare to do things differently like Rust, Unisonweb and Erlang do. It's so refreshing to see new approaches to software development.

I liked the Rust cliche, "systems programmers can have nice things" at first. But now it feels limiting, because Rust is so much more versatile than systems programming.

This is a great blog post on designing error types in Rust Rust Language mmapped.blog/posts/12-rust-…

Let's try mastodon again. I'm @[email protected] on mastodon.

All the principal engineers at Microsoft that I respect are completely comfortable with asking "dumb questions". When you don't feel like you have to prove your intelligence or worth, you learn more because you ask better questions.