Edd Barrett @ebarrett

Dusted off my Dad's old turntable last night. Still working after all these years! https://mastodon.social/media/Na2xCjzdlQKA7NkNrNY

When a paper deadline is the same day as the start of a beer festival :)

Re-capping vintage electronics this evening https://mastodon.social/media/nSBOUHpyxC_GGoSZUxs

Enjoyed hearing BBC Radio 4 trying to comprehend death metal just now...

I'm hoping the hard-copy REPL will make a resurgence within the hipster community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DTpQ4Kk2wA

Worse than hayfever itself is the annual barrage of pseudo-scientific "natural remedies" that a google search will unearth.

I'll be taking part in a panel session at @ICOOOLPS 2017 :P -- See you there? http://2017.ecoop.org/event/icooolps-2017-papers-do-new-computing-environments-lead-to-new-language-constructs-

Creating global mutable state in Rust (don't unless you have good reason btw) with and without `lazy_static`: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27791532/how-do-i-create-a-global-mutable-singleton#27826181

Time to get out and vote!

Well played whoever entered their name as "Theresa May" on the list of GnuPG donors :P https://gnupg.org/donate/kudos.html #gnupg

Apparently hipsters are putting dry ice in their beer now. Pfft, I've been putting water in beer for years. That's ice before it was cool.

Rustc is getting a Prolog-like query interface for it's type system: http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2017/05/25/query-structure-in-chalk/ #rust

A new TeX system written in rust: https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/

Finished 'Consider Phleabas' by Iain M Banks at the weekend. Now on to 'The Water Knife' by Paolo Bacigalupi. (Loved 'The Windup Girl').

Today's dystopian soundtrack: Ben Frost - By the Throat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_the_Throat_(Ben_Frost_album)