Mastodawn

GitHub has stopped showing me line numbers past 60 this week. Take from that what you will about their investment priorities.

Robin Jan 4

I'm not really bothered by the new iOS Liquid Glass gimmick, but what does really bother me is how half the app icons now appear to be blurry because of the shine on top edges.

Robin Dec 20

Maybe it's time for Vin Diesel to go with the times and change his name to Vin Electricity

Robin Dec 18

So in #Rust tracing, the code handling Span::follows_from only has access to the origin Span data if the origin span isn't closed yet. That kind of defeats the point, because you'd use it for a follow-up operation that happens later, so the origin span is almost gone by definition. Or am I missing something?

Robin Apr 26, 2025

Out of curiosity, I ported https://mrshiny608.github.io/MrShiny608/optimisation/2025/04/22/OhNoYouDidnt.html over to #Rust and ran it through Criterion.

The implementations are the same, naive brute force, std HashMap, pre-allocated HashMap, and as a bonus, pre-allocated AHashMap.

Unsurprisingly, same results.

O(no) You Didn’t 😱

A deep dive into why real-world performance often defies Big-O expectations and why context and profiling matter more than theoretical complexity

MrShiny608

Robin Mar 22, 2025

Someone explain to me why there was a five minute period yesterday during which my personal website served 65k requests, 300 per second.

I do have a suspicion what's happening there.

Robin Mar 21, 2025

Seeing how some folks have turned to proof-of-work methods to ward off LLM scrapers from taking down their websites, I'm dismayed that the solution is wasting more energy.

Maybe we should just make our own internet, and make it invite-only to keep out the bots.

Robin Feb 19, 2025

macOS + YubiKey pro-tip:

When you see this prompt, the key is already waiting for a touch, you don't actually need to click anything.

Robin Feb 18, 2025

@technomancy I've been thinking about your search engine, and what I would index if I built my own. I was thinking that indexing from the browser would be neat, and that reminded me of https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex

GitHub - WorldBrain/Memex: Browser extension to curate, annotate, and discuss the most valuable content and ideas on the web. As individuals, teams and communities.

Browser extension to curate, annotate, and discuss the most valuable content and ideas on the web. As individuals, teams and communities. - WorldBrain/Memex

GitHub

Robin Feb 14, 2025

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

Feb 13, 2025

LLMs Do Not Break Interviews (by @sulami)

LLMs Do Not Break Interviews

Weak Opinions, Strongly Held

Website	https://blog.sulami.xyz
Codeberg	https://codeberg.org/sulami
GitHub	https://github.com/sulami
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