Robert Roskam

@raiderrobert
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I am deliberately eclectic.

I write mostly about software engineering, and I also post #programminghumor, #gaming, #writing, #gamdev, and lots of other stuff.

I tend to write stuff in #python these days with bits of #js / #go / #rust tossed in. Playing with #godot too!

Engineer & Manager

🌐https://robertroskam.com
πŸ—ΊοΈGreenville, SC
Dinner tonight; kind of a pork shepherds pie
inebriated person in the parking lot doing drunk'in donuts
My favourite thing about #PyConUS2026 has been meeting people, in person, with nuanced opinions and open minds.

The modern attention economy shoves the most extreme opinions in your face all the time, and it's easy to forget that not everything is so cut and dry.

How much would your next job have to offer you to take it? (Stated in % compared to your present job.)

In all other ways as far as you can tell, it's like your current job. Same field, same benefits, etc.

0%-15%
29.3%
15%-30%
34.5%
30-50%
17.2%
>50%
19%
Poll ended at .

If someone offered you a sum of money to quit your job today without another one to go to and you're not allowed to just go back to your current job, what's the least you'd take to do that?

What would you do after you quit? Why?

And if there's no amount, why?

Just curious. No judgement.

$1-1k
1.9%
$1k-10k
1.9%
$10k-50k
12.4%
>$50k
83.8%
Poll ended at .

Mechanical sympathy is this niche idea that doesn't get as much play as I think it should in software engineering.

Have you heard the phrase before? If so, how have you heard it invoked?

Renting other people's computers is expensive.

Until you go look at buying them and then running them in a data center and paying for the Internet you need there for >100 servers.

And don't forget paying people to manage those servers.

btw, yes, I know things like Zed aren't CLI tools, but it's my daily driver editor, and I can do what I want :P

I made an index of CLI tools written in rust: https://inrust.dev

Enjoy!

Find your next CLI tool

A curated directory of Rust CLI tools β€” replacements for classic Unix commands and new tools that stand on their own.

inrust

More people should embrace "probably" instead of certainitly.

I recently had someone express nearby me that ADHD is certainly not real, and my immediate reaction was to say, they were certainly wrong. I didn't actually express this because they weren't talking to me.

And upon reflection that reaction itself is wrong. Understandable, but wrong.

They are almost certainly wrong based on current evidence. That is a better framing.

Also for the record, this is what introspection looks like. πŸ˜‰