Thanks to the Pipa Index and actually working in the open, I’m able to publish what I’m working on! Have a look :)
I’ve been thinking for a little while that I should look into trying to contribute to the Rust compiler, since it’d be fun if I could understand what’s going on under the hood better. I’ve done a bit in the Zig stdlib, but nothing on the compiler, and while I have some Co-authored-by:s in Ruby, I wouldn’t write home about it*.*
And so sans any context whatsoever, I start to say out loud: “y’know, I think it’s finally time I—”
Annie cuts me off sharply: “just use rustup.”
Ow /s
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Despite my absolute lack of love for Ruby on Rails (and revilement for certain persons at the project), I have embarked on my tenth year of working for pay on very large, very highly used, and — how should I put it — very well-loved Ruby on Rails codebases.
It’s been lovely. I was pretty worried about energy requirements, having not worked full-time since 2019, but so far I am managing. Despite the whole Situation with the tech industry, I have gotten away without interacting with a single LLM yet, and I am betting I can just hold on like this until the bubble pops. So far I am mostly doing security-related work and getting out small fixes or improvements fast, and that suits me very well. I have very chill coworkers. Working in the open like I do with all my personal stuff is such a nice change from a career of mostly closed-source work.
The work has also made it a lot easier to feel for my largest open-source baby, Comrak, especially given my job now directly involves using it! I just now pushed out a bit of a monster release candidate, and I’m feeling good about it.
Selamat malam!
