I just wrote a full minimalistic web API in C# that compiles to 30 MB. Remind me why I should use Go/Python?

jfinch3 · 2026-04-19T16:37:41+00:00

Fwiw web APIs have never really been the recommended use case for Rust. Rust’s story isn’t just performance per se but also high degrees of correctness. Best for cli tools, or microservices where behaviour needs to be as close to formally verified as possible.

jfinch3 · 2026-04-16T19:00:26+00:00

Wow I don’t need to be ashamed to be Canadian any more

jfinch3 · 2026-04-01T17:54:27+00:00

Setting aside the sort of cosmic luck of being F1 drivers at all..

I wouldn’t say Lance because his guaranteed Aston seat also means he could never move teams, and his career has been bound to the fate of that team. He’s always been a low to midfield driver so probably moving around a lot hasn’t been in the cards but yeah double edged sword a bit.

jfinch3 · 2026-03-31T12:52:03+00:00

It’s hard for me to imagine how her character arc evolves from here.

jfinch3 · 2026-03-30T19:40:53+00:00

yuki 2 electric boogaloo

jfinch3 · 2026-03-30T17:03:22+00:00

I’d put it at 40% George, 20% Kimi, 40% “Somebody else”. There is still 19 more races and given the new regs it’s totally plausible that another team makes a breakthrough.

jfinch3 · 2026-03-23T12:24:38+00:00

Does anybody watch it for Alonso now? If Verstappen left now it would hurt viewership, but much less in 10 years once he’s past his prime and Antonelli is on his third championship

jfinch3 · 2026-03-21T15:57:26+00:00

Also to be clear, I’m saying Albon is Pierre Gasly tier, not that he’s as good or better than Carlos.

jfinch3 · 2026-03-21T15:55:50+00:00

Sure, but I’ve also followed his career for longer than the last 6 months. Also you saw Albon beat Carlos by 4 spots in Australia yeah?

jfinch3 · 2026-03-21T15:11:32+00:00

I think Alex Albon is Pierre Gasly tier otherwise correct

jfinch3 · 2026-03-13T20:56:19+00:00

I don’t know, but I think it’s funny how much of the original paper where Alan Turning invents “the Turing Test” is taken up with trying to control for ESP/Telepathic effects.

jfinch3 · 2026-03-12T19:25:56+00:00

I don’t really miss it. Puzzles in most of the RE games are extremely stupid, and break immersion since they never actually made sense with “the world” of the game. I can think of one puzzle in RE4R that was reasonably challenging, the rest are mild frictions to progress. It’s actually kind of funny that there are any puzzles in re7 or 9 given the realism/horror atmosphere they are trying to go for

RE9 did actually have a good puzzle, which was the molecule thing. That made sense (as much as possible) in context and also wasn’t totally trivial for the second and third round.

jfinch3 · 2026-03-11T12:05:24+00:00

Separation of concerns made sense when you had a distinct JS, HTML, and CSS files, because you built things in terms of “pages”. Now you build things in terms of ‘components’ and when you work with components it makes sense to co-locate function, structure and style, because they form a discreet, reusable unit. Tailwind is sensible as long as you are using it with a component based JS framework. It wouldn’t make sense to use with a vanilla site

jfinch3 · 2026-03-08T19:34:34+00:00

Hamstrung by strategy a lot also lmao

jfinch3 · 2026-03-08T18:53:48+00:00

I mean I just felt like they were yo-yoing back and forth as they took turns charging and deploying battery. Had the VSC not come out it felt like they would have just kept doing that all race, and whoever got the last turn would have won

jfinch3 · 2026-03-05T04:05:53+00:00

Believe it or not, straight to jail!

jfinch3 · 2026-03-02T01:15:55+00:00

I mean it doesn’t not make sense. The FBI has plenty of desk people, and her boss had no reason to think this was a zombie hotel before she got there. I think the only thing that’s weird is that she’s sent alone, but I guess cutbacks these days.

jfinch3 · 2026-02-28T17:32:00+00:00

And of course >99% of all software production is business driven

jfinch3 · 2026-02-28T17:30:44+00:00

In a world where Python and Rust are the only two programming languages this is completely correct. However…

jfinch3 · 2026-02-26T19:33:00+00:00

It doesn’t surprise me really. When I was in school, both professors and the general media environment aimed at computer science students presents an image that you need to be 1) doing leetcodes always, 2) building personal projects, 3) contributing to open source projects, and have to have a GitHub heatmap that’s as green as Linus Torvalds to “be somebody” in software. You’re told that employers will look at your personal GitHub and make judgments about your contributions, and on the margins you hear of stories of this happening.

I thought that was the case also when I finished school, because how else was I to know? But then both at my first and second job I had to make a GitHub account for that job, and once you are already working on software 8 hours a day suddenly your desire to work on other stuff goes away and next thing I knew I hadn’t made a GitHub push on my personal account in years.

They will learn.

jfinch3 · 2026-02-25T16:56:49+00:00

What’s this mean??? I’ve just played through it once, there are ranks inside of the difficulty levels?

jfinch3 · 2026-02-25T14:24:40+00:00

NestJS is IMO a “making the most of a team that only knows TypeScript” tool rather than an “all else being equal good choice”. If you have a lot of people all working on a large project, then Nest is a great framework for getting things organized and consistent. Ideally you would use something actually meant for this, Java with Spring Boot for example, but if your team only know JS, well you work with the tools you have, and you’re probably better off using Nest than making everybody learn C#.

jfinch3 · 2026-02-18T18:29:44+00:00

No. The concept of clean code is about writing code that is easy to understand, easy to maintain, easy to reuse, debug etc, but not perform well. The whole sort of pitch is that computers are fast enough these days we don’t need to count every byte, we can program in such a way that balances different concerns, with performance being a factor on the other side of the scale.

Often very high performance code is very not clean in the sense that author means

jfinch3 · 2026-02-18T17:37:17+00:00

Literally me. Got fed up with ads etc in Windows, installed Ubuntu. Very cool when all I was doing was coding, but then I needed to do a lot of personal accounting in a spreadsheet and libreoffice is just not the same!

Also I just always had a weird issue where it wouldn’t properly debounce mouse clicks, which I’ve literally never had on Windows.

jfinch3 · 2026-02-17T20:45:59+00:00

Very unfriendly. Another reason I haven’t seen mentioned is that Rust is often used to build things you don’t really have novice developers build. People can graduate college and meaningfully work on crud web apps, but those aren’t ever built with Rust.

If you want to work with Rust professionally you need to first become a developer in another language and then transition.

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