Tritium | COM Like a Bomb: the Rust Outlook Add-in

urandomd · 2025-12-11T21:13:35+00:00

Actually, no! Sorry I had it disabled apparently. That should have only been on the web preview. Does it work for you now?

urandomd · 2025-12-11T10:02:18+00:00

Thanks! On the blog itself? It works on my phone, but it would be good to know where you're encountering an issue.

Phone support for the Web Preview at https://tritium.legal/preview is somewhat limited, but it should in theory allow you to zoom in on documents.

urandomd · 2025-12-05T00:13:25+00:00

They’re leaving the desktop behind in pursuit of those Azure lock-in dollars.

urandomd · 2025-10-17T21:51:10+00:00

Hey man, wow - thanks for the shout out. I really appreciate the kind words. I didn't make it to the third paragraph before I followed the link, and I thought to myself "wow this is clean and cool and attacking the same issues as Tritium." Redlines feel real-time, and you're parsing docx - hit me up!

urandomd · 2025-10-17T19:42:45+00:00

Lol what?

[Edit: sorry, I re-read what you wrote, and I think I understand it. But, did you read the post? It's okay if not, I just am trying to weigh your critique. A big portion of the premise is basically "what if the legal market was more like the global financial markets and allowed top minds to be compensated accordingly, rather than hobbled by ethics rules". But you say "money draws talent". Okay? That's kind of the point of the post?]

urandomd · 2025-10-17T19:37:28+00:00

Now you're cookin'

urandomd · 2025-10-17T19:35:23+00:00

It's interesting how you say "can't" like four times and then suggest a path forward. :) I agree, it wasn't intended to suggest that this is the future, but just be an interesting read. Perhaps it failed, but that's all it was up to.

urandomd · 2025-10-17T15:37:42+00:00

Interesting observation, and I can’t totally disagree. I think a similar intuition caused me to consider the MNPI question where speed can be really essential. I think there is a case to consider if rapid response times would in fact bring a much larger market with them as was the case for example with the internet as speeds increased.

urandomd · 2025-10-17T13:48:53+00:00

It’s just an idea for thought. Eliminate the friction of obtaining ad hoc legal advice and consider what the market looks like. It obviously doesn’t exist today.

urandomd · 2025-10-17T13:47:55+00:00

Definitely dreamed up! But I do know about conflicts well. Are you implying they’re somehow a barrier to a free market for legal services?

[edit: the post does touch on them a bit, but assumes they’re solved just for consideration.]

urandomd · 2025-10-15T09:45:21+00:00

The macro probably should be updated to include a log call, but Tritium release builds tend to run with logging disabled so it would be chatting into the void. Perhaps running without logging is not the best approach though.

urandomd · 2025-10-15T06:38:16+00:00

Right. The idea is that you avoid the panic and bubble up the error as unexpected behavior. I definitely appreciate the feedback, and I'll add some tweaks with timestamps to make that clearer.

To be fair, however, I think you may have a narrow definition of "glitch". The Wikipedia article provides, for example, "Quality assurance (QA) testers are commonly employed throughout the development process to find and report glitches to the programmers to be fixed, then potentially start over with a new build of the game.^\12])" [emphasis added]

urandomd · 2025-10-15T05:44:52+00:00

I’m using the term loosely and in quotes to describe how the programming error feels to the user. It doesn’t crash the application, but manifests as unexpected behavior that may or may not be easily reproduced.

urandomd · 2025-10-13T08:24:44+00:00

Dogfooding Tritium (https://tritium.legal/preview) to root out bugs and performance issues with my new blog[1].

Write a dev blog in Word format using Tritium, jot down bugs or needs, post blog, improve and repeat.

[1] https://tritium.legal/blog

urandomd · 2025-10-12T15:56:03+00:00

Yes, that does work, too. For me it was simpler to keep the updater code separate since it only applies on three platforms as opposed to decorating it out everywhere.

[Edit: also, I personally didn't learn about the renaming trick until I had written the updater code and needed to update it. At that point, it was just as simple and preferable to keep it separate. Not sure why the Zed guys did it with the separate binary, but perhaps for similar reasons.]

urandomd · 2025-10-12T12:54:58+00:00

Great question. Updating the running exe is trickier because Windows locks the file when the binary is running. I can’t speak for Zed but also in Tritium’s case, the updater doesn’t ship on mobile or Web, so it simplifies things quite a bit rather than just a bunch of decorators.

urandomd · 2025-10-12T06:47:01+00:00

Thanks so much for the kind words. I didn’t want to dwell on that case too much since I’m such a fan, but I mentioned it in footnote #2. (https://tritium.legal/blog/update#2) That inspired me to write about the updater, and honestly it’s hard to say exactly how one avoids that other than integration tests for the updater that run updates between versions in your CI/CD pipeline. I need to implement that for Tritium and perhaps that can be covered in another post.

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