Jordan McQueen
@jm.dev
Rust Person
🦀 🎱📡⌨️🏌️♂️⛩️ Tokyo, 日本 🇯🇵
I like agents of truth.
(?:distributed )?systems, security, performance, semantics, compilers.
🦀 🎱📡⌨️🏌️♂️⛩️ Tokyo, 日本 🇯🇵
I like agents of truth.
(?:distributed )?systems, security, performance, semantics, compilers.
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How does Oxide make decisions? FAQ Friday #17
September 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
How does Oxide make decisions? FAQ Friday #17
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One of the things that has pretty annoying is that if you have any kind of bullshit meter, if you have anything inside of yourself that doesn’t enjoy being lied to, the last couple of years of almost every area of public life have been driving you up a fucking wall
August 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
One of the things that has pretty annoying is that if you have any kind of bullshit meter, if you have anything inside of yourself that doesn’t enjoy being lied to, the last couple of years of almost every area of public life have been driving you up a fucking wall
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I can tell @davidbarsky.com is chatting about JJ and ersc.io at #RustConf because our mailing list subscriber signups are skyrocketing despite us not yet having sent a single update
East River Source Control
ersc.io
September 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I can tell @davidbarsky.com is chatting about JJ and ersc.io at #RustConf because our mailing list subscriber signups are skyrocketing despite us not yet having sent a single update
asdf came to mind 😅 (slightly different though)
August 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
asdf came to mind 😅 (slightly different though)
I hope it’s possible for me to stop believing them so much..
August 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I hope it’s possible for me to stop believing them so much..
Is it possible that the super availability of mass produced low cost clothing had an impact? More local garment makers and domestically-created clothing means it was the economical (or only) option?
August 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Is it possible that the super availability of mass produced low cost clothing had an impact? More local garment makers and domestically-created clothing means it was the economical (or only) option?
Compensation isn’t a motivator, it’s a constraint. c.f. Punished by Rewards
July 18, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Compensation isn’t a motivator, it’s a constraint. c.f. Punished by Rewards
Something about WhatsApp’s network code is much better than other platforms. It was the only platform that successfully uploaded and sent a video on spotty plane WiFi.
July 18, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Something about WhatsApp’s network code is much better than other platforms. It was the only platform that successfully uploaded and sent a video on spotty plane WiFi.
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Today I wrote about 300 lines of Rust featuring "unsafe" that I thought about quite carefully.
Then I started adding safety comments. The act of needing to convincingly argue that something is true made me find and fix 3 bugs I had missed before.
Safety comments exist for a reason!
Then I started adding safety comments. The act of needing to convincingly argue that something is true made me find and fix 3 bugs I had missed before.
Safety comments exist for a reason!
July 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Today I wrote about 300 lines of Rust featuring "unsafe" that I thought about quite carefully.
Then I started adding safety comments. The act of needing to convincingly argue that something is true made me find and fix 3 bugs I had missed before.
Safety comments exist for a reason!
Then I started adding safety comments. The act of needing to convincingly argue that something is true made me find and fix 3 bugs I had missed before.
Safety comments exist for a reason!
Sometimes I wonder if rural vs city, house vs condo, and manyrepo vs monorepo and monolith vs microservice are different flavors of the same question.
July 5, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Sometimes I wonder if rural vs city, house vs condo, and manyrepo vs monorepo and monolith vs microservice are different flavors of the same question.
I believe that people who get good at lying are irrevocably and fundamentally changed. It is a black magic; it is a skill that comes at great cost to its user.
July 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I believe that people who get good at lying are irrevocably and fundamentally changed. It is a black magic; it is a skill that comes at great cost to its user.
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Why Does Oxide Use Rust?
June 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Why Does Oxide Use Rust?
I’m confident that Japanese society will instill good values in my children and help raise them right. But one thing I feel is a personal duty to teach my kids that they won’t get here: a healthy ability to question authority.
June 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I’m confident that Japanese society will instill good values in my children and help raise them right. But one thing I feel is a personal duty to teach my kids that they won’t get here: a healthy ability to question authority.
My favorite meals in Japan are set lunches done by Izakayas whose main business is evening hours but they are just carrying the afternoon hours with some lunch specials. The meals are almost total sleepers — amazingly good and low key.
June 24, 2025 at 3:36 AM
My favorite meals in Japan are set lunches done by Izakayas whose main business is evening hours but they are just carrying the afternoon hours with some lunch specials. The meals are almost total sleepers — amazingly good and low key.
It’s huge. Many endgame draws are predicated on zugzwang.
June 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM
It’s huge. Many endgame draws are predicated on zugzwang.
As an aside, this isn't a position on whether that's a good thing or a bad thing. Sometimes you're forced to choose between "bad" and "worse". I think it's fairly clever. Nothing is as it seems.
June 17, 2025 at 6:03 AM
As an aside, this isn't a position on whether that's a good thing or a bad thing. Sometimes you're forced to choose between "bad" and "worse". I think it's fairly clever. Nothing is as it seems.
During the deployment of Stuxnet, interviews of Case Officers portrayed the Israelis as being too aggressive with deployment and unrestrainable. It always struck me as a CI play. It's convenient to have an entity that you "can't control" that does what you actually want to do, but cannot.
June 17, 2025 at 6:01 AM
During the deployment of Stuxnet, interviews of Case Officers portrayed the Israelis as being too aggressive with deployment and unrestrainable. It always struck me as a CI play. It's convenient to have an entity that you "can't control" that does what you actually want to do, but cannot.
Anyone else experience this? I *always* take my backpack off left strap first. You know how you sometimes need to do that maneuver where you sling it on one shoulder to access a side zipper? If it’s on the opposite shoulder as my usual take-off side, I find it awkward to execute. 😅
June 17, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Anyone else experience this? I *always* take my backpack off left strap first. You know how you sometimes need to do that maneuver where you sling it on one shoulder to access a side zipper? If it’s on the opposite shoulder as my usual take-off side, I find it awkward to execute. 😅
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Did you know: if you installed Rust with rustup, you already probably have the "Embedded Rust Book" locally. If you run `rustup doc` in your terminal, it'll open the bookshelf with all the docs installed already, including the main rust books as well as the embedded rust book.
June 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Did you know: if you installed Rust with rustup, you already probably have the "Embedded Rust Book" locally. If you run `rustup doc` in your terminal, it'll open the bookshelf with all the docs installed already, including the main rust books as well as the embedded rust book.
Human effort is conserved. Creating a municipal trash collection solution spawns truck maintenance backlogs, collective bargaining effort, and landfill management projects. The net societal human effort is unchanged -- only rearranged.
June 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Human effort is conserved. Creating a municipal trash collection solution spawns truck maintenance backlogs, collective bargaining effort, and landfill management projects. The net societal human effort is unchanged -- only rearranged.
“Darn it!” You’re the second person to talk about curly quotes so I guess that signal is out the window. 😅
June 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
“Darn it!” You’re the second person to talk about curly quotes so I guess that signal is out the window. 😅
No, it literally uses them everywhere. You can check the output for yourself. I think they’ve added special passes at the end to purposefully insert these sentinel values to make it easier to detect generated content. Maybe it’s something they’re even doing for anti-cheating purposes.
June 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
No, it literally uses them everywhere. You can check the output for yourself. I think they’ve added special passes at the end to purposefully insert these sentinel values to make it easier to detect generated content. Maybe it’s something they’re even doing for anti-cheating purposes.
Yeah. Quotes is probably the weakest of all these signals. If you put U+1680 Ogham Space Mark between a number and the percentage sign, though… sketch. 😅 New game: insert weird Unicode everywhere into one’s typical usage patterns to trick people into thinking you’re a “user”. 😆
June 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Yeah. Quotes is probably the weakest of all these signals. If you put U+1680 Ogham Space Mark between a number and the percentage sign, though… sketch. 😅 New game: insert weird Unicode everywhere into one’s typical usage patterns to trick people into thinking you’re a “user”. 😆
He has taught me many things! In this case I can thank my emacs config for making it very obvious when “non-standard” characters are being used.
June 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
He has taught me many things! In this case I can thank my emacs config for making it very obvious when “non-standard” characters are being used.