Rust and the price of ignoring theory
by James Faure

Well, Mint is... meh.
I think next We'll try Pop!_OS. Same hardware, same installs and goals, see how that fares.

Well, then.. you don't often get the code coloring fucking up like that, lol

Why Rust is Better Than Go
an excerpt from Rust 2025: $400K Salaries, Go, AI & Why It's Not Everywhere (Yet) — Jon Gjengset Explains
by JetBrains and Gjengset

anyway happy year of Linux on the desktop

In making a TODO type in Swift, I have also made the stupidest initializer!

It always crashes.
It optionally takes a message to print with the crash.
The value it never returns may be nil (crashing).
You may ignore the value it never returns.

Do not believe anyone who says that elementaryOS is like macOS.

It's extremely different in many jarring ways. Not good for someone moving from macOS to Linux

I feel like one of the transformations in Our programmingmind which has happened since getting Our CS degree 12 years ago (💀), is that We've slowly replaced jargon with simpler terms.

Instantiation/Transmutation -> Initialization/Conversion
Hydration/inflation -> Loading
Polymorphism -> Inheritance/Conformance
etc.

You know it's a great day when

I Asked An LLM To Fix My My GitHub Actions Failures, And It Just Removed The Test Suite

$5 on Substack

We've made a bunch of customizations to this Mint+Cinnamon install.
Any way to transfer those to the upcoming Pop!_OS install that'll replace it?

"We're dogfooding SHELF with HRT" isn't a sentence that We thought We'd be saying but here We are