Paolo Barbolini
@paolobarbolini.bsky.social
CTO & Co-founder m4ss.net
lettre.rs, deps.rs, rust-postgres and others when I can. Maintain your dependencies or I'll send you a PR
lettre.rs, deps.rs, rust-postgres and others when I can. Maintain your dependencies or I'll send you a PR
You should listen to this
youtu.be/qJo_b3Euxes
youtu.be/qJo_b3Euxes
E006 - Kenneth Finnegan | On the Metal Podcast
YouTube video by On The Metal
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
You should listen to this
youtu.be/qJo_b3Euxes
youtu.be/qJo_b3Euxes
Opening Cargo.lock or looking at the output of cargo-geiger is a good excuse, often thanks to the initial "WTF are they doing???", to audit other crates and learn more about the ecosystem you are relying on.
November 24, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Opening Cargo.lock or looking at the output of cargo-geiger is a good excuse, often thanks to the initial "WTF are they doing???", to audit other crates and learn more about the ecosystem you are relying on.
I love to see them when I leave the house or look out of the window. In Autumn you'll hear them scratching the ground most of the day, because of the noise of the dead leaves.
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I love to see them when I leave the house or look out of the window. In Autumn you'll hear them scratching the ground most of the day, because of the noise of the dead leaves.
Thank you Gitlab for this new fantastic update!
November 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Thank you Gitlab for this new fantastic update!
Reposted by Paolo Barbolini
Turns out the TokenStream implementation of rust-analyzer's proc-macro server is super slow when it comes to one of the most common proc-macro operations: concatenation. I noticed that in Zed's codebase, there were ~4 derives that just straight up together took 8 seconds to expand in rust-analyzer.
November 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Turns out the TokenStream implementation of rust-analyzer's proc-macro server is super slow when it comes to one of the most common proc-macro operations: concatenation. I noticed that in Zed's codebase, there were ~4 derives that just straight up together took 8 seconds to expand in rust-analyzer.
Playing around with const evaluation live
youtu.be/7qK9VybYJ4w
youtu.be/7qK9VybYJ4w
November 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Playing around with const evaluation live
youtu.be/7qK9VybYJ4w
youtu.be/7qK9VybYJ4w
AFAIK it's the agent host that sends the HTTP requests. I've tried with Gemini and saw no requests. I guess they use cached data?
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
AFAIK it's the agent host that sends the HTTP requests. I've tried with Gemini and saw no requests. I guess they use cached data?
An industry so honest that it can't even set the right User-Agent.
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
An industry so honest that it can't even set the right User-Agent.
I haven't tried them yet, but if you're going to be bound by the database anyway and it's a tiny project it may not be worth it.
November 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I haven't tried them yet, but if you're going to be bound by the database anyway and it's a tiny project it may not be worth it.
And then there's SEPA Direct Debit with all kinds of shenanigans
November 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
And then there's SEPA Direct Debit with all kinds of shenanigans
The first time we did it it was instant. The description probably went into /dev/null
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The first time we did it it was instant. The description probably went into /dev/null
Last time Hetzner took 5 minutes to increase the limits.
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Last time Hetzner took 5 minutes to increase the limits.
Reposted by Paolo Barbolini
Tomorrow on rust nightly: better stack traces!! Thanks to the v0 mangling scheme, which has been a LONG time coming: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/11/20/s...
Switching to Rust's own mangling scheme on nightly | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
blog.rust-lang.org
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Tomorrow on rust nightly: better stack traces!! Thanks to the v0 mangling scheme, which has been a LONG time coming: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/11/20/s...
Reposted by Paolo Barbolini
In case you're wondering why YouTubers do sponsored videos: Any given sponsored video I've done has paid me more than what I've earned in an entire year out of ads and YouTube premium.
November 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
In case you're wondering why YouTubers do sponsored videos: Any given sponsored video I've done has paid me more than what I've earned in an entire year out of ads and YouTube premium.
Reposted by Paolo Barbolini
the verge's reviews program has always been the heart of the site and one reason we jealously protect it and refuse to do brand deals is so we can just say the products are bad www.theverge.com/report/82215...
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
the verge's reviews program has always been the heart of the site and one reason we jealously protect it and refuse to do brand deals is so we can just say the products are bad www.theverge.com/report/82215...
Projects that use futures-lite and then import a bunch of garbage are so funny 🤭
November 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Projects that use futures-lite and then import a bunch of garbage are so funny 🤭
High tech antispam solution
November 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM
High tech antispam solution
Reposted by Paolo Barbolini
First Cloudflare, now GitHub. Today is not a good day to get work done.
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
First Cloudflare, now GitHub. Today is not a good day to get work done.
Someone should make a crate full of stuff that accidentally compiled or built on older Rust compilers
github.com/rust-lang/ru...
github.com/rust-lang/ru...
November 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Someone should make a crate full of stuff that accidentally compiled or built on older Rust compilers
github.com/rust-lang/ru...
github.com/rust-lang/ru...
They seem to be back, now their status page is broken 😆
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
They seem to be back, now their status page is broken 😆
