FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Feel that? Yeah

‪every one of us is a traveller from a far off land, with tales of a place that none can ever visit again‬

‪much as we shall never conquer the stars, we will never conquer the past. we will only experience an infinitesimally small fraction of all that there is to be experienced, and what remains can only be dreamed of, but we know that it is there, and that it is beautiful‬

the past is such a beautifully distant place

Sooo, my employer decided to move all engineering to Taiwan, and laid off my entire team among everyone else affected. 😬

If you or someone you know is looking for a senior engineer, tech lead, or similar, and your requirements tick some of these boxes, please feel free to send me a message or DM!

- Rust since 2017, professionally since 2021
- USB, WinAPI, C interop, kernel-mode drivers
- Long-running, async applications
- Reverse engineering, legacy systems
- Embedded (RP2040 projects)
- napi/node integration
- wgpu, WGSL
- living in Germany, remote preferred
- mentoring Rust newcomers

Boosts appreciated, thank you!

#rust #rustlang

T-shirt courtesy of @heydon has arrived

@hertog the software:

char* a = malloc(1);
for(;;) {
    printf(“%d\n”, a);
    a += 1;
}

[POTION SELLER PUBLIC LICENSE

Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>

THIS SOFTWARE IS TOO STRONG FOR YOU, USER. YOU CAN'T HANDLE MY SOFTWARE. IT'S TOO STRONG FOR YOU. MY STRONGEST SOFTWARE WOULD KILL YOU, USER. YOU CAN'T HANDLE MY STRONGEST SOFTWARE. YOU'D BETTER GO TO A DEVELOPER WHO WRITES WEAKER SOFTWARE. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ASK, USER. MY STRONGEST SOFTWARE WOULD KILL A SYSTEMS PROGRAMMER, LET ALONE A MAN. YOU NEED A DEVELOPER WHO WRITES WEAKER SOFTWARE, BECAUSE MY SOFTWARE IS TOO STRONG. YOU CAN'T HANDLE MY STRONGEST SOFTWARE. NO ONE CAN. I CAN'T GIVE YOU MY STRONGEST SOFTWARE, BECAUSE MY STRONGEST SOFTWARE IS ONLY FOR THE STRONGEST BEINGS, AND YOU ARE OF THE WEAKEST.

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.](https://cohost.org/xenofem/post/4509123-div-style-color-v)

eye

skateboard

inferno

shawl

grapefruit

European Eeper

EU train tickets use SIX BIT ascii? wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N17GQJBIaiU

Anyway, xkcd said everything that needs to be said about "prompt engineering" back in #1827.

https://xkcd.com/1827/

Amazing. Just amazing. "Microsoft Office Clippy" is just so bloody on point.

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/office-365/microsofts-dumbest-rebrand-in-its-near-50-year-history-just-got-even-dumber

do you ever have that thought

the thought where instead of doing your thing in an ad hoc way you're going to define a new file format to configure it in

and instead of writing the parser for the file format in an ad hoc way you're going to write the best parsing/lexing/generation/transformation framework there has ever been

so that when you finally get around to actually doing your thing, it'll be easy?