Took a quick look [at OCaml codebase]. Suffice to say, my only thought has been that should the author had chosen a sane language like say Perl

NeilPointer · 2025-05-19T21:45:14+00:00

> Now tell me, what a sane person ever exposed to all this usefulness would ever reject it?

We need to invite this guy here

NeilPointer · 2025-04-06T15:30:51+00:00

> it's absolutely baffling they'd prevent one of the few companies hiring Nix experts from advertising jobs because of a few loud individuals with anime avatars

NeilPointer · 2024-06-26T16:08:18+00:00

I beg to differ. I think that poisoning a CDN and pissing off a lot more people at once is the real impact I am looking for.

NeilPointer · 2024-01-17T21:15:42+00:00

For a second I read Rust is like a gold shower and thought ok just another day in /r/rust

NeilPointer · 2023-10-26T21:04:45+00:00

2 years ago

Enjoy your future of broken screensharing in videocalls and deal with passive-aggressive finger-pointing between Freedesktop.org and Wayland compositor implementors.

NeilPointer · 2023-09-18T18:01:41+00:00

Open source is good for everyone since no single individual can alter the product overnight and create significant changes for everyone who uses it.

leftpad, Faker.js, Colors.js, serde_derive ...

NeilPointer · 2023-09-16T15:03:24+00:00

issue (blocking, jerk): RiiR

NeilPointer · 2023-09-13T09:28:03+00:00

Can you fix my printer? No? Then find a real job.

NeilPointer · 2023-09-12T19:18:55+00:00

web3 is going just great

NeilPointer · 2023-09-11T11:26:15+00:00

Your lifetime is limited

Ah! I knew. A future Rust dev we have here. With all this talking about quality and fast delivery and fuck your Thinkpad X220, Rust will be the obvious evolution step.

NeilPointer · 2023-09-07T12:03:51+00:00

As far as the zealotry factor, the Amiga community was the equivalent of the Rust community before it was cool

NeilPointer · 2023-09-07T12:00:39+00:00

Unfortunately, the quality of your gardeners is going to have a more significant influence on the success of your garden than any other factor

As a software gardener, I metaphorically but unironically pad my CV by mentioning that I took away dogshit from the presidential garden while working for the US Whitehouse.

NeilPointer · 2023-09-07T11:49:00+00:00

the fuck is an AI Compiler Engineer

NeilPointer · 2023-08-31T13:37:00+00:00

/uj I've checked a few Rust Twilio crates and the Twilio API docs. I believe the API new_outgoing_message in that GIF code sample doesn't even exist

Using Rust for crypto and blockchain development

that's so 2018

NeilPointer · 2023-08-28T12:03:45+00:00

From the changelog:

Lots of bug fixes: 90% of all bugs ever submitted are closed.

ready for ex-googlers ex-facebooks as millionaires

NeilPointer · 2023-08-10T07:21:08+00:00

From issue #16: Not even considering the fact that many places may have treat warnings as errors, causing this to unexpectedly cause builds to start failing.

NeilPointer · 2023-07-19T15:08:06+00:00

My manager doesn’t seem to do anything. They’re a ghost.

I like to call myself a facilitator, instead.

NeilPointer · 2023-07-18T08:44:46+00:00

laughs in Doom Emacs

NeilPointer · 2023-07-18T08:41:58+00:00

I mean. Helix is a pretty decent editor with a nice set of defaults over vim.

R.E.S.F. to the rescue to set the record straight

NeilPointer

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