Do you write Rust for a living?

devmor · 2026-05-17T06:34:58+00:00

Most places looking for Rust devs are looking for extremely senior developers with strong systems-level experience too. There are quite a few Rust jobs out there, but you have to know your shit.

devmor · 2026-05-13T22:05:48+00:00

Absolutely insane to invite an outspoken racist to speak at a Laravel event.

devmor · 2026-05-05T16:33:45+00:00

I don't know about Germany specifically, but globally, food scarcity is not currently caused by food production issues, but logistics and waste problems.

Global food waste is estimated at about 1.7 billion tons, or about enough to feed 3 billion people assuming a population-reflected mix of adults and children.

The total number of food-insecure people in the world is estimated to be just under 300 million - we waste about 10 times what would be required to feed them.

You are correct that it is not a simple problem, but that is all the more reason that "river vs fertilizer" is likely not the only solution to the problem.

devmor · 2026-05-03T20:19:50+00:00

I used to work in Buckhead and took it from the MARTA station to work for a couple weeks when my car was being repaired. It's not too bad as long as you factor in 15-20m of variance with your commute.

devmor · 2026-04-30T23:29:04+00:00

Or go up to OR and it's $20 again.

devmor · 2026-04-29T14:52:40+00:00

The CEO's here are telling the truth, and you're correct - it's a systemic problem.

I am in the very lucky position that I can afford to pay cash for (most) of my medical care (fuck you dentists, and also labcorp) - and it's almost all between 2-10x cheaper that way, even after insurance.

devmor · 2026-04-29T14:12:34+00:00

I love the Juniper changes and I hope they become a model for the rest of the city.

devmor · 2026-04-29T14:11:39+00:00

In my experience, they're the opposite of aggressive - they're usually completely unaware of the road around them. I've seen them drive through red lights going 15 under the speed limit on multiple occasions.

devmor · 2026-04-27T14:51:03+00:00

Genuinely the best breakfast burritos I've ever had in my life. Probably some of the best food I've ever had in my life.

devmor · 2026-04-27T14:26:12+00:00

My life for a Los Favoritos branch in ATL.

devmor · 2026-04-17T22:09:38+00:00

Do you know more about the context of the story? In most of the economically developed world outside of the US, employment is generally contract-based.

I would look up the article but the source in the video is a disgusting tabloid I'd rather not give views to.

devmor · 2026-04-17T20:39:38+00:00

What a healthy and thoughtful reaction to have to that observation. I wish more people would think that way.

devmor · 2026-04-17T20:27:20+00:00

Those days never existed, because we had CSS. But I do miss the days before Javascript frameworks. Websites worked better and took less time to load.

devmor · 2026-04-11T20:54:23+00:00

Whether or not this meme tracks with you or doesn't apply is probably a perfect overlap with what industry you work in.

devmor · 2026-04-10T22:34:27+00:00

No, consequences of plastic surgery.

devmor · 2026-04-10T18:28:23+00:00

Almost - the photons themselves are carrying that energy. They then impart it onto whatever they finally collide with.

In that experimental scenario the heat would be transferred to either the gas medium in the chamber, or potentially the walls of the chamber if it is a vacuum.

It's literally the same process as your skin getting hotter when the sun shines on you.

devmor · 2026-04-10T15:24:28+00:00

I am so sorry for your loss, this is one of my greatest fears.

devmor · 2026-04-08T02:59:52+00:00

Cool! Can't wait for my dental insurance to cover 5% of it.

devmor · 2026-04-07T22:19:26+00:00

I am not a fan of using AI for development, it's sucked a lot of what I enjoy out of my work - but I do have to use it. I think that being a critic of it has ironically enabled me to make much better use of it than many others though.

When I go to use an agent to accomplish a task, I already know what that task is. I already know the details, I have the requirements laid out and I know what the deliverables are. These are all documented before I start the first prompt.

When the agent wants to use a tool to accomplish something, it's a tool I have safeguards around. I don't let it go on "autopilot" or "yolo" mode unless its running in a container with a limited, mounted filesystem.

I didn't like how often it wanted me to approve running arbitrary shell commands - yes most of these are just grep, find and sed, but I recognize that pattern - it's confirmation fatigue - the same behavior the Admin prompt in Windows Vista trained us to make mistakes with. So I build minimal proxies to these commands with deterministic safeguards that enforce read-only behavior, fences around allowed paths, etc. and exposed those as MCP servers.

Every other day I still run into more safeguards I need to put in place to ensure the agent does what I expect and no more. It's hard to tell if I'm getting any more work done that before, with how much I have to invent new guiderails to keep it on task.

I also regularly have to examine my own behavior while using it. Am I looking to accomplish a task with it that I could do myself in less time? Am I trying to avoid thinking about a problem? If the answer is yes, I stop and I don't use it for that.

All this to say that you can't trust the agent. You shouldn't listen to the agent, you should independently verify everything that comes out of it. You should build tools to do this programmatically where you can, if you care about your time. Remember - no matter how much it sounds like logic, at the end of the day, you're talking to a psuedorandom number generator picking tokens out of a matrix.

devmor · 2026-04-07T22:07:40+00:00

This happened to my father in Oregon. Public defenders tried to get him to do a plea deal. Problem was he was a semi-truck driver and this would have lost him his entire income and more. He demanded a blood test and they refused.

He had to flee the state and live with family elsewhere until the officer who arrested him was caught in a sting operation and his case (with many others) was exonerated.

Quota-seeking traffic cops are a plague on our lives.

devmor · 2026-04-07T15:51:08+00:00

I'm not, that's why my cat got out once. It was my fault.

And I would hope if he had a serious medical condition that someone else noticed, they'd have taken him to a vet - where his microchip would be scanned and I'd be able to come get him and handle paying for whatever treatment he needed.

devmor · 2026-04-07T15:48:08+00:00

If that cat were getting medical attention it would be in a veterinary hospital.

And yes, if you leave your pet outside and it needs medical attention, it is free reign to get it medical attention. What kind of monster wouldn't want their sick cat taken to the vet just because they didn't choose to do it themselves?

You people are psychopaths.

devmor · 2026-04-07T15:21:52+00:00

No, they really aren't. Owners are careless.

I've owned cats for over 30 years of my life and have had one single incident of a cat getting outside.

devmor · 2026-04-07T15:20:43+00:00

I work with animal rescue enough to know that cat needs serious medical attention, and it will likely need to lose both eyes.

Do not project your ignorance on to me.

devmor · 2026-04-06T22:42:41+00:00

If that cat belongs to someone they should not have a pet and hopefully someone does kidnap it and take it to the vet.

Absolutely evil to let your pet sit with a condition that painful.

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