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Tim McNamara

@timClicks

1 year

ANNOUNCING Your source learning Rust creatively - videos, tutorials, coaching and more. Check it out!

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6 months

Difficult for a job ad to have a red flag in every sentence, but not impossible apparently

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Why is it harder to make a website in 2021 than it was in 1996?

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If this is accurate, then NVIDIA's grip on the tech industry has just vanished. Matrix matrix multiplication (MatMul) is notoriously computationally difficult, which is why it's offloaded to GPUs. If MatMul can be avoided, then it's not just leveling the playing field. It's

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This is really a 'WOW' paper. 🤯 Claims that MatMul operations can be completely eliminated from LLMs while maintaining strong performance at billion-parameter scales and by utilizing an optimized kernel during inference, their model’s memory consumption can be reduced by more

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3 years

A bit mean I guess, but also ...

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2 years

S3 seems like a pretty simple app. I mean, how hard is PUT and GET? Shouldn't need more than 4 to 6 engineers to maintain.

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2 years

Too much bullshit AI is why I left that field

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6 months

@eyebrowsofpower You forgot AI. It's a photo sharing social media app but it's got AI.

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1 year

Rust is the software industry's best attempt yet at distilling 70+ years of computer science into a single programming language

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@_AlexEne_ Especially as they're hiring a Java developer.

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Android 13 has ~1.5 million lines of Rust code, and zero memory safety vulnerabilities discovered in Android’s Rust code have been found so far. This compares to 1 vuln per <1,000 lines code that Android has had historically.

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3 years

If New Zealand eliminates the virus again, that will be the biggest middle finger to Australia's PM saying that it's impossible. I think that's the kind of motivation we need. #nzpol #auspol #covid19nz

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A computer just captioned this as "man using his laptop while his cat looks at the screen" http://t.co/bfwr1wiiFn http://t.co/1F18NCwVf9

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Who else in tech studied humanities?

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When people find Rust hard to learn, I think that what's happening is that they're being exposed to the complexity that exists rather than being hidden from it.

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3 years

Hey NZ, don't be gaslit. Other countries are not "opening up" in the way that's being portrayed, they're operating around our Alert Level 2

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1 year

Have you tried DDD? Deadline-driven development

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2 years

It's kind of crazy that computer scientists are still finding faster ways to sort integers

GitHub - orlp/glidesort: A Rust implementation of Glidesort, my stable adaptive quicksort/mergesort...

A Rust implementation of Glidesort, my stable adaptive quicksort/mergesort hybrid sorting algorithm. - GitHub - orlp/glidesort: A Rust implementation of Glidesort, my stable adaptive quicksort/mer...

github.com

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2 years

Why Rust for serverless? Because it's much faster for your users, especially for cold start. Try it yourself by loading this webpage and see the difference.

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3 years

The two mental states of every computer programmer

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2 years

Does anyone use Rust in production?

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9 months

It's actually depressing how unpersuasive this argument is.

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Rust? Why would I?

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2 years

I program in Rust because its compiler respects that I am a human

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3 months

If you follow me and you are *not* a bot, please like this tweet.

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@timClicks

2 years

A new book on writing an operating system kernel has just been released. Found on r/osdev.

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2 years

Rust isn't just a programming language. It's a shift in the social contract of software towards safety, efficiency, and developer happiness.

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3 years

I mean, writing your own HTML in Notepad and uploading it via FTP was a chore. But it was understandable and easy.

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@timClicks

6 months

@bmuskalla That's because they are so sharp

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Tim McNamara

@timClicks

1 year

Some takeaways from Google's internal research on the practicality of using Rust in production The survey respondents were ~1,000 software developers who have been learning Rust. 😍 Rust is easier to learn than people think. Most developers felt

Rust fact vs. fiction: 5 Insights from Google's Rust journey in 2022

Wondering about Rust? We're addressing rumors and providing insight gained from years of early adoption of Rust here at Google.

opensource.googleblog.com

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@timClicks

2 years

Has anyone ever been asked to implement FizzBuzz in an actual job interview?

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@timClicks

3 years

This is not the tweet that the author thinks it is

Odysseus

@odysseas_eth

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@timClicks Cloudflare pages tied to a gihub repo powered by jekyll. Super a simple setup and elegant, using js from 2016. At some point I want to add @tailwindcss

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Rust is a good bet for your career, change my mind.

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2 months

@tribbloid The market is not valuing NVIDIA as a $3T company because of ray tracing.

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11 months

@virgil_30 @duetosymmetry Tea. This is tea.

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2 years

As far as I can tell, Rust is the least bad programming language that we've come up with so far.

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@timClicks

1 year

The existence of the Fast Fourier Transform implies the existence of the Furious Fourier Transform.

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2 years

In Rust, Option<Box<T>> uses the same memory layout as Box<T>, e.g. Option takes no space. The Rust compiler knows that pointers cannot be null, so uses the null bit pattern to encode None.

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Tim McNamara

@timClicks

3 years

Unpopular opinion: any discussions on New Zealand becoming a republic must be led by Māori.

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@timClicks

3 years

If you want to create a fanpage of some obscure topic, everything is just ... too much. So instead, people will create an Instagram/TikTok/Facebook/etc and start posting there.

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@timClicks

1 year

Ferris, the programming language formally known as Rust

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@timClicks

2 years

Word processors have been around since the 1980s using kilobytes of RAM and <10ms keyboard latency, which is why I'm so happy that the the state of the art in 2022 is to use web-based editors which require hundreds of MBs while taking >100ms per key press.

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@timClicks

1 year

Is Rust a serious programming language? What is this nonsense? 😂 <'_> |_| {} ::<_>

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@timClicks

2 years

Chromium (the open source base of Google Chrome) is now written in Rust as well as C++

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@timClicks

2 years

Small update. This week I'm joining @awscloud , working with @jonhoo @ekuber @SkippersWif @oli_obk and others on Rust at AWS. Excited to help strengthen the language and to foster a new wave of energy-efficient, reliable software that empowers billions of people.

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@timClicks

2 years

Now that Rust is in the Linux kernel, can people stop dismissing adopting it because it's a new language?

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@timClicks

1 year

"prompt engineering" is a very grandiose phrase for something that really doesn't deserve to be called engineering

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@timClicks

1 year

Let's play "anger a software developer in 10 words or less": The world needs a new config language

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@timClicks

1 year

You could probably replace the word "Rust" with "open source" and the effect would be the same.

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@timClicks

2 months

@tribbloid Because today's AI systems are compute-bound and require MatMul.

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Off topic, but it's funny to notice people's reactions when you offer something for free and it's actually good

How to Learn Rust

A 12 week guided tour through the Rust learning resources. Reduce the time it takes to learn the language by dozens of hours.

learning.accelerant.dev

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@timClicks

2 years

Rust in Action, Second Edition is now in progress.

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@timClicks

3 years

And because some people need to be told very explicitly

Tim McNamara

@timClicks

3 years

@switz213 the original tweet wasn't me being nostalgic, it was about the fact that ad-driven apps are simpler and will therefore win. until that happens, creativity and expression will be captured by large, privacy-invading companies.

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5 years

Rust in Action () has quite a few @rustlang projects: - a CPU emulator - an NTP client - a basic grep - your own floating point format - a memory scanner - UNIX signal handling - setjmp/longjmp control flow - binary files inspector - ...

Rust in Action: Systems programming concepts and techniques

A book for programmers to learn Rust by building systems programming projects. It's intended for people who may have exhausted the free material on the web, but who still want to learn more.

www.rustinaction.com

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@timClicks

2 years

Getting a laptop with 12 CPU cores and 32GB RAM sounds wonderful, until you find out that the thing overheats and throttles itself

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@timClicks

3 years

@switz213 the original tweet wasn't me being nostalgic, it was about the fact that ad-driven apps are simpler and will therefore win. until that happens, creativity and expression will be captured by large, privacy-invading companies.

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@timClicks

3 years

Some personal news: our family became a unit of 5 this week. I am unequivocally a girl dad, with a pack of 3 of them.

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@timClicks

2 years

Maybe this is why it's hard to rewrite a browser engine in Rust?

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@timClicks

1 year

Rust is a perfect fit for the serverless computing model, change my mind.

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@timClicks

2 years

If you are just starting out, systemd is more important to learn than Kubernetes.

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@timClicks

4 years

Intimidated to learn #rustlang because it's a "systems programming language"? Here's my message:

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@timClicks

1 year

Dear Ubuntu, why ~/snap/ and not ~/.snap/? 😭

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@timClicks

2 years

The developer urge to rage quit and begin a new life as a mushroom farmer.

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@timClicks

2 years

"Developer time is more expensive than computer time" defending dynamic languages is a fallacy when you consider the added debugging that you will need to do.

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@timClicks

10 months

I was holding my two year old daughter on a walk moments ago and for the first time out of nowhere she said, "Safe, secure, stable software." I started to quietly tear up. She couldn’t see my face and I didn’t make a sound, but she said, “Don’t cry. It’s okay.”

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1 year

Rust is the software industry's best chance to address sustainability, security and stability. Your users, your budget and global energy usage all benefit.

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@timClicks

3 years

A high speed passenger train service between Wellington and Auckland would be a good thing, actually.

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@timClicks

9 months

Am delighted to share that I will be working to support the Rust Foundation's training and certification program. This will create another wave of commercial adoption and continue to strengthen the language's position.

Rust Foundation

The Rust Foundation is an independent non-profit organization to steward the Rust programming language and ecosystem, with a unique focus on supporting the set of maintainers that govern and develop...

foundation.rust-lang.org

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@timClicks

4 years

Strangest control flow ever? Did you know that named blocks in #rustlang allow you to decide which loop to continue...

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@timClicks

3 years

If you are worried that you're not a good enough programmer to contribute code to an open source project (and your brain is lying to you, by the way - I assure you that you are), then consider contributing to their documentation as a starting point.

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@timClicks

2 years

Avoid wrapping Vec<_> in Option. An empty Vec<_> already encodes None. #rustlang

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@timClicks

1 year

Hypothesis: The Rust community is at an awkward inflection point. Many people love to program in Rust, but find it extremely difficult to get paid to do so. On the other side, employers are unwilling to invest in Rust because of the perception of a lack of suitable

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@timClicks

2 years

Heads up: Giveaway incoming! When I reach 10k followers, I will send a signed book anywhere in the world to one of the people who like this tweet.

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@timClicks

5 months

Future Software Should Be Memory Safe (yes, Rust gets a mention on p9)

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@timClicks

1 year

It's actually quite lucky that lat, long coordinate (0.0, 0.0) is off the coast of Africa. Imagine the drama that would unfold if Null Island was an actual place that software could find a route to.

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@timClicks

9 months

Look, I love frontend as much as the next backend developer, but how can this possibly make sense?

Тsфdiиg

@tsoding

9 months

Ok, listen, I just wanted to make a Simple Hello World in React. Why tf this create-react-app thing installed 1459 packages? React devs are you ok there?

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Rewrite it in Rust because developers want to develop in Rust is a perfectly sound argument, in my opinion. Programming languages are not purely technical. People drop away over time and projects need to be able to recruit new contributors over time. cf

Rewrite it in Rust by ridiculousfish · Pull Request #9512 · fish-shell/fish-shell

(Editor's note - please read #9512 (comment) and #9512 (comment) before commenting if you are new to fish or not familiar with the context - @zanchey) (Progress report November 2023) (Sorry...

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@timClicks

2 years

The term "immutable variable" rates pretty highly in the worst names possible competition that computer scientists seem to play.

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@timClicks

1 year

What? Teams doesn't support code formatting? Do no software developers work at Microsoft?

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5 months

My face when I see a VC-backed open source company back away from open source

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@timClicks

1 year

Would you like to join my Discord server? React to this tweet and I'll send you an invite.

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@timClicks

2 years

#1 Best Seller in Memory Management Algorithms (hey, it's niche but I'll take it!)

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@timClicks

1 year

If the Rust project leadership doesn't figure out how to support contributors from a diverse set of backgrounds, all of the contributions to the compiler will come from large tech companies.

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@timClicks

1 year

Seeing job ads for companies that have recently gone through large layoff rounds makes me so angry.

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@timClicks

1 year

Wow, my new course made my personal stretch goal of 1,000 registrations in its first week! Registrations are at 1,071. Absolutely amazed at the trust people have put in me.

How to Learn Rust

A 12 week guided tour through the Rust learning resources. Reduce the time it takes to learn the language by dozens of hours.

learning.accelerant.dev

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@timClicks

2 years

Some mistakes (?) in Rust's standard library: - BufRead/BufWrite should be Read/Write and Read/Write should be RawRead/RawWrite b/c unbuffered I/O causes trouble and shorter names get used first - String/&str should be StringBuf/String to match PathBuf/Path and other types

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@timClicks

2 years

Are you on Discord? Like this tweet and I'll send you an invite to my server. It's a chill space to geek out with creative technologists.

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@timClicks

3 years

Rust in Action has reached #1 New Release for Computer Programming Languages!! Thank you to everyone in the @rustlang community for supporting the book. Link here for those curious

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@timClicks

1 year

I am actually very interested in hearing about A (Possible) Future for Compile-Time Programming and think that speculative/aspirational ideas should be welcomed as technical keynotes. That's kinda the point.

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Rust is especially useful for serverless workloads. Containers housing Rust-based applications are typically much smaller than those with managed runtimes, such as Java and Python. The typical Rust container is 150MB, whereas a Java-based container might weigh 2GB or more.

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2 years

Recruiter asked me to work for a blockchain startup. Wanted more info when I said that I wanted nothing to do with crypto.

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@timClicks

3 years

If you're on LinkedIn, you can now be assessed for Rust (Programming Language). I worked with LinkedIn to develop the curriculum and assessment questions. So I guess you are welcome to blame me if you disagree with an answer!

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Learning about async Rust? You don't need a massive dependency chain to get going. Here are three tiny async executors if you are interested in learning about async Rust without pulling down all of Tokio/async-std: - futures::executor (enable the "executor" feature)

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3 years

It seems like the choice we're being asked to make is to make it easier for richer, whiter people to make slightly more money slightly faster at the expense of the lives of poorer, darker-skinned people.

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1 year

Now that Rust is in the Windows and Linux kernels, can we please stop hearing people dismiss it as an unproven technology?

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@timClicks

3 years

If you are into decentralized systems, then learn web 1.0 not web3

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2 years

Who is hiring Rust developers at the moment, particularly in Europe? Asking for a few friends.

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2 years

All I want for Christmas is a good text editor that's not based on a web browser.

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@timClicks

8 months

@LPNational @RealAlexJones Supporting free choice, except when people make lifestyle choices you don't agree with.

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1 year

The Rust community appears to be discovering the security implications of proc macros and build scripts in unverified 3rd party crates

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Eliminate NullPointerExceptions with this one neat trick: use Rust.

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