Wesley Moore @wezm@mastodon.social

Man, you know how #lisp gets called "the programmable programming language"?

Turns out you can write Lisp's backquote operator in #rust: https://github.com/dtolnay/quote

If "null" was C's billion-dollar mistake, then the macro system might have been its ten-billion-dollar mistake, for making everyone else avoid macros for the next 40 years.

Read this. This article pretty summarizes what I see every day. And when I criticize it, half of the audience doesn't understand my point. They are simply to young and grew up with smart phones and fast lines.

"Software disenchantment": http://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/ via kurtm@bsd.network

Finally got around to finishing my ISO build of Arch Linux, which boots right to AttractMode front-end, and also auto-mounts another USB drive by label to read configs/roms from. Works well, makes updates easy as hell.

https://gitlab.com/Luke-Nukem/attractmode-arcade

"This week people in our community confronted me about my lifetime of
not understanding emotions. My flippant attacks in emails have been
both unprofessional and uncalled for. Especially at times when I made
it personal. In my quest for a better patch, this made sense to me.
I know now this was not OK and I am truly sorry."

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/16/167

RT @cynicalsecurity@birdsite.link
There’s x86 in the new iPhone X baseband.

Seriously.

https://lcq2.github.io/x86_iphone/

https://twitter.com/cynicalsecurity/status/1040611124784312321

Once again ran into a very weird bug in my OpenGL code. If I run the program in debug mode (cargo run --example basic), it works fine. If I run it with the --release flag, it doesn't upload the shader source code.

Seems like the pointer to the string just points to garbage. But why would the pointer point to garbage? Code: https://git.neon.moe/neon/fungui/src/branch/master/src/renderer.rs#L21

The first beta release of @gael 's #e / #eelo mobile OS appears to be out: https://medium.com/@gael_duval/leaving-apple-google-e-first-beta-is-here-89e39f492c6f

RT @RustNetWG: Rising Tide: building a modular web framework in the open
https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/wg-net/2018/09/11/tide.html source: https://twitter.com/rustlang/status/1039595364184150016

Quickie intro to profiling Rust code on Linux using "perf":

https://brionv.com/log/2018/09/11/parallelizing-png-part-7-rust-profiling-on-linux/

So yes. I wrote about what browser diversity REALLY means and why only having one browser is not the wonderland of API support we dream of: https://css-tricks.com/the-ecological-impact-of-browser-diversity/