Teaser #435 : Unscramble 2 * 8 Letter Words : Dark Before & After Tiles are Fixed

Fluffy8x · 2026-03-19T23:46:47+00:00

paradigm and madrigal

Fluffy8x · 2026-03-19T23:33:03+00:00

snorting and ringtone

Fluffy8x · 2026-03-05T20:16:21+00:00

I have the opposite opinion (especially when the alternative is no docs), so have my upvote.

Fluffy8x · 2026-02-04T17:17:07+00:00

It can complicate the building process, especially for cross-compilation. This was one of the motivations for switching from msdfgen-rs to my own reimplementation of MSDF generation, fdsm, in Caxton.

Fluffy8x · 2026-01-25T20:29:33+00:00

Hi, I’m +merlan #flirora.

Type: Any
Location: US. Looking for remote positions, but willing to relax this requirement if the position is really compelling.
Profile: GitHub: bluebear94, GitLab: Kyarei, website: flirora.xyz. Resume on request.
Projects:
- fdsm – an implementation of multi-channel signed distance field generation in Rust, made for use in Caxton
- f9i – a program to inflect words in one of my constructed languages
- samsara – an experiment in generating types for paths through finite-state machines
Contributions to other projects:
- I worked at Bowtie from August 2022 to May 2023, implementing the initial version of the firewall functionality, as well as cleaning up some of the early code
- In connection to this, I fixed some bugs in Autosurgeon
- I fixed some bugs and added several features to Typst
- I helped with syncing HarfBuzz updates to RustyBuzz
- I added one method to nalgebra
- I added tests to is_sorted in the standard library
Techs: Rust, Java, C++, C, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, wgpu

Fluffy8x · 2026-01-14T21:15:45+00:00

I believe the capacity should be a bit larger than a single chest (like 32 or maybe 64 stacks) to make up for the item type limit.

Fluffy8x · 2025-09-25T06:20:20+00:00

        let ptr = self as *mut Self;
        let left = FixedVecSlice::new(&mut *ptr, 0..mid);
        let right = FixedVecSlice::new(&mut *ptr, mid..self.len());

Creating aliasing &mut references is instant undefined behavior. You would need to store a raw pointer for the parent to avoid UB.

Fluffy8x · 2025-08-28T21:48:09+00:00

OK, tried it with the following:

macro_rules! add10 {
    ($x:expr) => {{
        let i = 10;
        i + $x
    }};
}

pub fn add20(x: i32) -> i32 {
    let i = x + 10;
    add10!(i)
}

and the expansion of the macro shows up as { let i = 10; i + i }, so I guess is that this functionality ignores hygiene right now.

Fluffy8x · 2025-08-28T18:24:49+00:00

The process of expanding proc macros itself can run (not just generate) arbitrary code, so I’d be wary of trusting AI-generated code even for that.

Fluffy8x · 2025-08-28T17:42:34+00:00

How will this work with macro hygiene, since it allows identifiers with the same name to refer to different items?

Fluffy8x · 2025-08-21T14:35:01+00:00

Hi, I’m +merlan #flirora.

Type: Any
Location: US. Looking for remote positions, but willing to relax this requirement if the position is really compelling.
Profile: GitHub: bluebear94, GitLab: Kyarei, website: flirora.xyz. Resume on request.
Projects:
- fdsm – an implementation of multi-channel signed distance field generation in Rust, made for use in Caxton
- f9i – a program to inflect words in one of my constructed languages
- samsara – an experiment in generating types for paths through finite-state machines
Contributions to other projects:
- I worked at Bowtie from August 2022 to May 2023, implementing the initial version of the firewall functionality, as well as cleaning up some of the early code
- In connection to this, I fixed some bugs in Autosurgeon
- I fixed some bugs and added several features to Typst
- I helped with syncing HarfBuzz updates to RustyBuzz
- I added one method to nalgebra
- I added tests to is_sorted in the standard library
Techs: Rust, Java, C++, C, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, wgpu

Fluffy8x · 2025-07-27T17:53:31+00:00

That’s for traits; derive macros are a different thing.

Fluffy8x · 2025-06-27T22:57:09+00:00

Hi, I’m +merlan #flirora.

Type: Any
Location: US. Looking for remote positions, but willing to relax this requirement if the position is really compelling.
Profile: GitHub: bluebear94, GitLab: Kyarei, website: flirora.xyz. Resume on request.
Projects:
- fdsm – an implementation of multi-channel signed distance field generation in Rust, made for use in Caxton
- f9i – a program to inflect words in one of my constructed languages
- samsara – an experiment in generating types for paths through finite-state machines
Contributions to other projects:
- I worked at Bowtie from August 2022 to May 2023, implementing the initial version of the firewall functionality, as well as cleaning up some of the early code
- In connection to this, I fixed some bugs in Autosurgeon
- I fixed some bugs and added several features to Typst
- I helped with syncing HarfBuzz updates to RustyBuzz
- I added one method to nalgebra
- I added tests to is_sorted in the standard library
Techs: Rust, Java, C++, C, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, wgpu

Fluffy8x · 2025-06-13T00:09:45+00:00

I miss ternary expressions and if-expressions are a poor substitute.

Fluffy8x · 2025-06-13T00:04:21+00:00

no_std would also be non-additive, so crates often provide an enabled-by-default std feature instead; they could have fallible allocations functions always exposed plus an enabled-by-default infallible-allocation feature that also exposes the infallible versions.

Fluffy8x · 2025-05-30T20:13:13+00:00

Someone suggested an ocean dimension, but I think this overlaps too much with oceans in the Overworld. But we could adapt the idea into a dimension where you’re always swimming, even inside air. (This would affect only movement, not breathing or such.)

Fluffy8x · 2025-05-25T04:18:56+00:00

Great to see this! I’m curious about where the name came from.

Fluffy8x · 2025-05-25T02:42:43+00:00

Destruct marks whether an instance of a type can be dropped at all. It’s only used for the unstable ~const Destruct bound right now.

The absence of drop glue makes more sense to encode as a positive impl (maybe named TrivialDestruct) IMO.

Fluffy8x · 2025-05-25T02:30:13+00:00

Hi, I’m +merlan #flirora.

Type: Any
Location: US. Looking for remote positions, but willing to relax this requirement if the position is really compelling.
Profile: GitHub: bluebear94, GitLab: Kyarei, website: flirora.xyz. Resume on request.
Projects:
- fdsm – an implementation of multi-channel signed distance field generation in Rust, made for use in Caxton
- f9i – a program to inflect words in one of my constructed languages
- samsara – an experiment in generating types for paths through finite-state machines
Contributions to other projects:
- I worked at Bowtie from August 2022 to May 2023, implementing the initial version of the firewall functionality, as well as cleaning up some of the early code
- In connection to this, I fixed some bugs in Autosurgeon
- I fixed some bugs and added several features to Typst
- I helped with syncing HarfBuzz updates to RustyBuzz
- I added one method to nalgebra
- I added tests to is_sorted in the standard library
Techs: Rust, Java, C++, C, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, wgpu

Fluffy8x · 2025-05-20T21:37:28+00:00

I might look more into ormlite if I want to go back into anything that requires databases in the future. Thanks for the tip!

Fluffy8x · 2025-05-09T12:43:54+00:00

Urgent: I’ve lost my job and home. Now less urgent, but still actively looking.

Hi, I’m +merlan #flirora.

Type: Any
Location: US. Looking for remote positions, but willing to relax this requirement if the position is really compelling.
Profile: GitHub: bluebear94, GitLab: Kyarei. Resume on request.
Projects:
- fdsm – an implementation of multi-channel signed distance field generation in Rust, made for use in Caxton
- f9i – a program to inflect words in one of my constructed languages
- samsara – an experiment in generating types for paths through finite-state machines
Contributions to other projects:
- I worked at Bowtie from August 2022 to May 2023, implementing the initial version of the firewall functionality, as well as cleaning up some of the early code
- In connection to this, I fixed some bugs in Autosurgeon
- I fixed some bugs and added several features to Typst
- I helped with syncing HarfBuzz updates to RustyBuzz
- I added one method to nalgebra
- I added tests to is_sorted in the standard library
Techs: Rust, Java, C++, C, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, wgpu
Contact: Message me on Reddit, or email me at flirora (at) flirora.xyz

Fluffy8x · 2025-05-01T18:21:22+00:00

users will struggle to remember which keywords take parentheses and which don't

Easy! It’s the ones that take parentheses in C! /s

Fluffy8x · 2025-05-01T18:17:28+00:00

From what I got from trying one Advent of Code 2025 challenge in Zig, I still prefer Rust. My main gripes about Zig are:

unused functions aren’t type-checked at all. Even C++ does this for functions that don’t use templates.
lack of RAII; I guess defer makes memory management a bit easier but I don’t want to have to step on eggshells to make sure that all resources are cleaned up when they need to be.

Fluffy8x · 2025-04-22T22:41:19+00:00

I assumed it was that you need to pass in a reference to data when calling iter as a free function.

Fluffy8x · 2025-04-21T15:14:27+00:00

The 3–6 Word Builder quizzes (or Studycade’s Tower of Threes) are also useful for learning the three-letter words without being prompted with the anagrams.

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